Time magazine has honored The Advocate’s May 2009 “Porn Panic” cover as one of the Top Ten Magazine Covers of the Year. The Advocate was the only LGBT publication acknowledged alongside such mainstream titles such as The New Yorker, New York magazine, W, and Interview, among others.Describing the cover, Time’s Arthur Hochstein wrote, “This clever and hilarious cover either consciously or unconsciously pays homage to the famous painting The Scream by Edvard Munch. The article it sells is about how the recession has affected the porn industry—hard times indeed! The photo suggests, among other things, that if it gets bad enough, movie producers may have to substitute blow-up dolls for flesh-and-blood actors. The movies may be rated X, but this cover gets an A.”
