GT: A Golden Shower

It's tempting when writing about GT to use that old cliche; the magazine formerly known as Gay Times.
Problem is, it's hard to see any continuum between the two titles.
For all its faults, Gay Times was a magazine with a point - it dealt with the serious stuff.
But since it was re-named GT in 2007, it's become increasingly difficult to discern what the point of it is.
Its pages are now given over to inconsequential fluff; sex-tips, dating dos and don'ts, "style", photos of "hot guys", guides on "how to get a bubble butt" and celebrity interviews.
Sometimes GT seems like a poor man's Attitude, a resurrected AXM, at others more like a gay Just 17.
It's a shame because there are some people there who can clearly write - you get the impression they're writing much of this guff at gunpoint.
The new GT is big on celebrity interviews.
Problem is it doesn't get many interviews with celebrities who are actually big - Attitude is the go-to fag mag for that.
Even when they are quite big names they tend to be "celebs" that you'd be hard pushed to find a single gay man who actually gives a fuck about them.
Recent cover stars have included JLS, Olly Murs (an X-Factor runner-up no less), and the singer from Keane.
The singer from Keane ffs???!
The interviews often read like parodies of interviews in the gay press; yes, they all love their gay fans, they think gay clubs are such fun, they feel flattered that gay men fancy them - and some of them even say some of their best friends are gay.
On the cover of the new issue of GT is the promise; 'Kylie talks to GT about her new album'.
Really? She doesn't normally do magazine interviews unless she gets the front cover all to herself.
And she's already done Attitude and it's extremely unlikely she'd do two gay interviews.
Inside is a page of drivel with a couple of quotes from Kylie saying how she likes to buy dance compilation albums, she thinks David Guetta is a good DJ, she loves her nephews and, err... that's about it.
There's about four quotes, maybe 200 words from Kylie - sod all "about her new album".
Tellingly Fagburn couldn't see the name of the author anywhere.
One wonders what GT hopes to achieve by something like this.
Anyone glancing at it in the newsagent will put it straight back on the shelf.
And anyone who pays money for it is just going to feel pissed off and ripped off and is unlikely to trust or buy GT again.
Well, as you can see there are proper interviews inside with Tom Hopper, Samuel Barnett, Aaron Renfree, Gabriel Thomson, Jack Whitehall...
No? Me neither.
But that's the new GT for you - a magazine without a point.
Though perhaps it's real problem now is that it's edited by a man without a clue.