Vogue’s Fag of the Year

Copyright Cesar Torres, 2025

Today I bring you a brand-new piece of photo art to close out 2025. Recently I have been re-visiting my roots as a journalist and writer, and I wanted to explore magazine layout and typography to constellate ideas about superheroes and consumerism culture. And as I was going through my own catalog of cosplay photos, I decided to take one of my studio shots and turn it into a magazine editorial titled “Vogue’s Fag of the Year.” Just like I did with my Lexcorp photo series, this image uses satire and irony to express ideas. And since Miguel O’Hara is cononically straight in the Marvel comics while at the same time Spider-man as a symbol embodies many aspects of queer identity, I thought, “let’s do this.”