I couldn't do a great models series without including someone from Playgirl, a publication geared for liberated women that soon became the go-to magazine for soon to be liberated gay men. Lou Zivkovich is by far my favorite Playgirl model. He was a former Canadian football star working as a junior high PE teacher when he was offered an all expenses paid trip to Hawaii to do his one and only photo shoot. Not long after the spread appeared, he was fired from his job. A judge later reinstated him, though. Oddly, there is not one derriere shot in his entire portfolio. Too bad, that.
I remember buying that issue, opeup to see him, and knew right then I'd died and gone to heaven. Slurp.
ReplyDeleteReminded me of the basketball coach in my high school, who openly showed he had more than a passing interest in me.
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I would say lucky you, but it's politically incorrect, lol.
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DeleteI didn't realize what he was doing at the time (humping my shoulder in class wasn't a giveaway??), so I passed on it in spite of the fact that I could barely breathe.
It was a good thing, though. I met someone several years later who said "yes" to him (as an adult, not a teen), and said the guy was really abusive and cruel. And, given the size of his massiveness (over twice the size of Lou), I would have been hospitalized.
Another teacher talked about how he got busted for beating up members of the basketball team what at another school.
Maybe my subconscious knew all of that and made me impossibly naive at that moment of The Great Shoulder Humping.
So I was correct after all to say "lucky you," seeing as how you avoided what would have been abuse by anyone's definition. If he did those things today, even the unrequited humping, he deservingly would be in prison.
DeleteI wonder if there are any recent photos of him online? I've looked but haven't found anything.
ReplyDeleteI looked again and found these . . ./Users/randylopes/Desktop/OIP.oqvS8eucCb4nvfhY640C0AHaEK.jpeg/Users/randylopes/Desktop/100139977707_1422549481968.jpg
DeleteYour link doesn't work. Is part of it missing?
DeleteI presume you've seen the Blackdogue page on him. Not all of these made it into the magazine:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.blackdogue.net/Playgirl/LouZivkovich/LouZivkovich.html
Yes, thank you. I did access that site.
DeletePG often missed the opportunity to show butts. I know showing full frontal made them famous -- but what an oversight! To this day, give me a butt shot over the full monty -- though both is ideal.
ReplyDeleteI think they tried too hard to be daring at times and missed out on the butt shots. Having said that, there were some occasions when they did some very good ones.
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