Blue Blood

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Blue Blood is the name of the seminal magazine of counterculture erotica launched by Amelia G in 1992. Although Blue Blood is still going strong today, it also provided the blueprint for the modern gothic and alt erotica explosions on the web and in video today. Evidence of this is in the regular shout-outs to Blue Blood from new web sites, in genre novels, adult videos, books from roleplaying game companies like White Wolf and of course numerous goth-industrial, punk, coffeehouse, and rock albums.

The glossy print magazine used to have "The Trade Mag of Cool" as its tagline because of how many movers and shakers in the the creative world got their initial publication credits or initial inspiration from Blue Blood. Despite its high production values, Blue Blood pushed the envelope on aesthetics, critical thinking, and what could be accomplished by DIY.

The number of photographers, writers, artists, and other creative people who were inspired by Blue Blood to show their work to the world is significant. Although Blue Blood is perhaps better known for the big names they have published, particularly in the fields of genre writing and art photography, Blue Blood also gave many creative people their first publication credit.

Blue Blood art director Forrest Black's official tenure began with issue #3. Back in the days when the World Wide Web was just starting to become a household term, Blue Blood’s initial internet presence was a bare-bones promotional site with a few pictures from the magazine, information about contributors and teasers for upcoming issues.

BlueBlood.net was launched as an entertainment portal covering music, fashion and events (it remains the non-adult-oriented incarnation of the Blue Blood brand). Citing the limitations of freelance work, Amelia G and Forrest Black spun off the alternative erotica sites GothicSluts.com and BarelyEvil.com in 1999-2000. GothicSluts.com is the more likely of the two to feature corsetry, fishnets and heavy eyeliner. Asked about the name, Amelia G explains, "It's partly about the transgressive, punk-rock humor of it, but it's mostly about reclaiming terminology; it's for all the women who ever got called sluts for owning their sexuality." BarelyEvil.com has more of what Forrest Black describes as a "crazy-punk-rock-arsonist-bad-girl" feel.