Instinct (magazine)

{{Short description|American monthly LGBT magazine}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox magazine

| image_file = Instinct-1997-1st issue.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| image_caption = First print issue, November/December 1997

| editor = Adam Dupuis

| editor_title = Managing Editor

| frequency = Online magazine

| total_circulation = 110,000{{cite web|url=http://www.echo-media.com/medias/details/5902/instinct+magazine|title=Instinct Magazine|publisher=Echo Media|access-date=August 10, 2015}}

| category = Gay Men's Lifestyle

| company = Juki Media

| publisher = JR Pratts

| founded = 1997

| finaldate = 2015

| country = United States

| based = Burbank, California

| language = English

| website = {{URL|http://www.instinctmagazine.com/}}

| issn = 1096-0058

}}

Instinct ({{ISSN|1096-0058}}) is a gay men's lifestyle magazine that was a physical publication from 1997 to 2015 and is an online magazine that was launched in 2013 and is still active today. The physical magazine was first published in 1997 by Instinct Publishing and was distributed by Curtis Circulation.{{cite book|author=Robert Lee Brewer|title=2014 Writer's Market|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQKYAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA482|access-date=January 15, 2016|date=August 5, 2013|publisher=Writer's Digest Books|isbn=978-1-59963-750-1|page=482}}{{cite journal|author=Sandra L. Caron|title=An investigation of content and media images in gay men's magazines|journal=Journal of Homosexuality|date=February 2008|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23555244|access-date=August 13, 2015|doi=10.1080/00918360802345297|pmid=19042283|volume=55|issue=3|pages=504–523|s2cid=205468927 }} Instinct launched its online component in June 2013, covering entertainment, news, original content, features, and travel. The final physical issue was dated June–July 2015.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}

Instinct was purchased by Juki Media, LLC in 2015.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}