Tim Boyce
{{short description|American model}}
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| birth_name = Timothy Shane Boyce
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|7|9}}
| birth_place = San Francisco, California, USA
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| haircolour = Brown
| eyecolour = Brown
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| occupation = Model
| yearsactive = 1993–present
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Timothy Shane Boyce is an American fashion and fitness model regarded as a male supermodel of the 1990s.{{cite news |last1=Lacey |first1=Hester |title=Why Paul and Tim Won't Ever be Kate and Naomi |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/why-paul-and-tim-wont-ever-be-kate-and-naomi-1271827.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/why-paul-and-tim-wont-ever-be-kate-and-naomi-1271827.html |archive-date=May 7, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |accessdate=12 May 2020 |agency=Independent |publisher=INDEPENDENT DIGITAL NEWS AND MEDIA LIMITED |date=March 9, 1997 |ref=Greg Spaulding, Tim Boyce and Larry Scott. Bruce Hulse, John Pearson and Scott Maslen. Heard of them but not quite heard of them?......In fact, they have all been touted as "male supermodels" over the past few years.}}{{cbignore}}
Boyce has worked with photographers Peter Lindbergh and Bettina Rheims in advertising campaigns for high fashion designers such as Giorgio Armani,{{cite web |title=GIORGIO ARMANI I FALL/WINTER 1994 |url=http://www.uomoclassico.com/ads/Giorgio+Armani/1994/Fall-Winter/main-line |publisher=UOMOCLASSICO.COM I 2014 |accessdate=12 May 2020 |ref=Model(s): Tim Boyce and Laetitia Herrera}} Gianfranco Ferre{{cite web |title=GIANFRANCO FERRE I FALL/WINTER 1994 |url=http://www.uomoclassico.com/ads/Gianfranco+Ferre/1994/Fall-Winter/main-line |website=www.UomoClassico.com |publisher=Uomo Classico |accessdate=11 May 2020 |ref=Model(s): Tim Boyce and male models |archive-date=February 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206233913/http://www.uomoclassico.com/ads/Gianfranco+Ferre/1994/Fall-Winter/main-line |url-status=live }} and brands such as Levi's.{{cite journal |last1=Siman |first1=Ken |title=This Model's Life |journal=Out - America's Best Selling Gay and Lesbian Magazine |date=October 1995 |issue=26 |page=68 |ref=“One day, Tim was walking out of the World Gym, a pedestrian Wayne Scot Lukas approached him and said, ‘You should be a Levi’s model,’...Sure enough, the guy lined up the Levi's test shoot...Tim's been modeling ever since."}} He appeared on the covers of Arena Homme +{{cite web |title=Arena Homme + |url=https://magazinecanteen.com/products/arena-homme-magazine-2-1994-marcus-schenkenberg |website=Magazine Canteen |accessdate=12 May 2020 |ref=Cover of male supermodels of the time - Marcus Shenkenberg, Tyson Beckford, Gregg Spaulding, Tim Boyce, Larry Scott |archive-date=September 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925221221/https://magazinecanteen.com/products/arena-homme-magazine-2-1994-marcus-schenkenberg |url-status=live }} and L'Uomo Vogue{{cite web |title=L'Uomo Vogue, October 1993 |url=https://forums.thefashionspot.com/threads/luomo-vogue-october-1993-by-steven-meisel.345945/ |website=The Fashion Spot |publisher=TotallyHer Media, LLC, an Evolve Media LLC company |accessdate=12 May 2020 |ref=L'Uomo Vogue cover "The New Breed" photographed by Steven Meisel}} alongside a new generation of top male models of the 1990s, including Marcus Schenkenberg and Tyson Beckford, who attained celebrity status in the global fashion, movie, music, and media markets.{{cite journal |last1=Worthington |first1=Christa |title=Time for the men to try it: Are these the new supermodels? Can they achieve parity with their female counterparts? Yes, if men's magazines have anything to do with it. Christa Worthington reports from New York |journal=Independent |date=September 4, 1994 |issue=Culture/Fashion |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/fashion-time-for-the-men-to-try-it-are-these-the-new-supermodels-can-they-achieve-parity-with-their-1446630.html |accessdate=12 May 2020 |ref="ON THE count of three, give me attitude,' says the photographer Albert Watson to the five best-looking guys in the world...It's taking time for male supermodels - though they're gaining every year - to achieve the earning power of their female counterparts...These five - Marcus Schenkenberg, Tim Boyce, Tyson, Greg Spaulding and Larry Scott - appear later this month on the cover of Hommes Plus, Arena's bi-annual fashion supplement... |archive-date=November 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120080936/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/fashion-time-for-the-men-to-try-it-are-these-the-new-supermodels-can-they-achieve-parity-with-their-1446630.html |url-status=live }}
In 1995, Out Magazine featured Boyce on its cover, photographed by Guy Aroch.{{cite journal |last1=Siman |first1=Ken |title=Gay Model - Hanging Out with Supermodel Tim Boyce |journal=Out Magazine |date=October 1995 |volume=26 |issue=Fall Fashion Issue |pages=66–135 |ref=“Tim is being chronicled because as a Six-figure Wilhemina model, easily recognizable from Armani ads, Details, and the male supermodel cover of Arena, people he has never met gossip and daydream about him.”}} The Out Magazine cover story lead the Los Angeles Times to single out Boyce and other notable figures such as Gore Vidal and Candace Gingrich as out leaders contributing to the increasingly vibrant market of the gay press that was notable for changing the landscape of mainstream media in the 1990s.{{cite news |last1=Hanania |first1=Joseph |title=Closeted No Longer : Magazines: Increasing ad revenues, mainstream media interest and attractive demographics have made an increasingly diverse gay press a vibrant market. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-29-ls-62323-story.html |accessdate=12 May 2020 |agency=Los Angeles Times |issue=SPECIAL TO THE TIMES |publisher=Patrick Soon-Shiong |date=October 29, 1995 |ref=Glance at the covers, and you won’t find the semi-nude hunk of the month, but female and male gay leaders in various fields--such as “gay super-model” Tim Boyce promoting Out magazine’s current fall fashion issue and Gore Vidal, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, currently on the cover of the Advocate. |archive-date=November 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119063455/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-29-ls-62323-story.html |url-status=live }}
Early life
Boyce was born in San Francisco, California of Italian and Irish ancestry.{{cite journal |last1=Leggett |first1=Carole |title=High Five The New Supermodel Army |journal=Arena Homme Plus |date=1994 |volume=1 |issue=2 |page=15 |ref=Born: San Francisco}} He moved to New York City, excelling in high school track and field, baseball and other sports before graduating from NYU with a degree in Communication Sciences in 1991.{{cite journal |last1=Siman |first1=Ken |title=This Model's Life |journal=Out Magazine |date=October 1995 |volume=26 |page=68 |ref=“Three years ago not long after he graduated from NYU, Tim quit his boring office job so he could put more time into carrying tunes and playing the guitar.”}}{{cite journal |last1=Caldwell |first1=Nicole |title=In Bed With Tim Boyce: This supermodel is more than just a pretty face |journal=Playgirl |date=June 7, 2011 |volume=55 |issue=Man Of The Year |page=27 |ref=this Irish-Italian moved to New York City at 16 and excelled in track & field, baseball, and other sports...He's gone on to become...a NYU graduate student..."I was fortunate enough to enter the profession after getting my BS in Communications Studies at NYU."}}
Career
In 1993, Boyce was photographed by Steven Meisel on the October issue of L’Uomo Vogue with a style team that included Garren and Lori Goldstein.{{cite web |title=L'Uomo Vogue - October 1993 by Steven Meisel |url=https://forums.thefashionspot.com/threads/luomo-vogue-october-1993-by-steven-meisel.345945/ |website=The Fashion Spot |accessdate=13 May 2020 |ref=Photographer Steven Meisel, Fashion Editor Lori Goldstein, Hair Garren |archive-date=September 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915074621/http://forums.thefashionspot.com/threads/luomo-vogue-october-1993-by-steven-meisel.345945/ |url-status=live }} Boyce continued working in the fashion editorial pages of such magazines as British GQ,{{cite journal |last1=Schneider |first1=Hanspeter |title=Cold War |journal=British GQ |date=November 1994 |issue=65 |pages=182–189}} Interview,{{cite journal |last1=Eberle |first1=Todd |title=Summer Clothes, Salt of the Earth-Style |journal=Interview Magazine |date=June 1993 |volume=XXIII |issue=6 |pages=88–93 |ref=p. 90: Models: Tim Boyce/Omar's Men, NYC}} New York Times Magazine,{{cite journal |last1=Hales-Took |first1=Hugh |title=Men's Fashion Of The Times |journal=New York Times Magazine |date=September 26, 1993 |page=44}} Arena, Vogue Hommes, Details, and Italian Vogue as well as on the runway in fashion shows for Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, Issey Miyake, Gianfranco Ferre, and Donna Karan.{{cite journal |last1=Leggett |first1=Carole |title=High Five |journal=Arena Homme + |date=1994 |volume=1 |issue=2 |page=15 |ref=Advertising: Levi’s, Armani, Ferre Editorial: Arena, L’uomo Vogue, Vogue Homme, Details, Italian Vogue Shows: Calvin Klein, Armani, Miyake, Ferre, Donnna Karan}}
In 1994, for the Autumn/Winter issue of Arena Homme +, a spin-off of the bi-monthly Arena, Boyce was photographed by master fashion photographer Albert Watson for the cover with four other top male models of the era, including Tyson Beckford and Marcus Schenkenberg.{{cite web |last1=Worthington |first1=Christa |title=FASHION / Time for the men to try it: Are these the new supermodels? Can they achieve parity with their female counterparts? Yes, if men's magazines have anything to do with it. |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/fashion-time-for-the-men-to-try-it-are-these-the-new-supermodels-can-they-achieve-parity-with-their-1446630.html |website=Independent UK |date=September 3, 1994 |accessdate=15 May 2020 |ref="ON THE count of three, give me attitude,' says the photographer Albert Watson to the five best-looking guys in the world." |archive-date=November 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120080936/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/fashion-time-for-the-men-to-try-it-are-these-the-new-supermodels-can-they-achieve-parity-with-their-1446630.html |url-status=live }} The two-page fold-out cover included the headline “High Five the New Supermodel Army - Tyson, Tim, Marcus, Gregg and Larry photographed by Albert Watson” and a quote by Boyce: “If I was a female supermodel I'd be Kate Moss – so I could be cute and tiny instead of big and ugly.”{{cite web |title=ARENA HOMME PLUS MAGAZINE (AUTUMN/WINTER 1994 - ISSUE 2 - MARCUS SCHENKENBERG, TYSON BECKFORD, TIM BOYCE, GREGG SPAULDING AND LARRY SCOTT |url=https://www.crazyaboutmagazines.com/ourshop/prod_384745-Arena-Homme-Plus-magazine-AutumnWinter-1994-Issue-2-Marcus-Schenkenberg-Tyson-Beckford-Tim-Boyce-Gregg-Spaulding-and-Larry-Scot.html |website=Crazy About Magazines |accessdate=14 May 2020 |ref=Two-page fold out cover}} The magazine celebrated the five men,{{cite web |last1=Worthington |first1=Christa |title=FASHION / Time for the men to try it: Are these the new supermodels? Can they achieve parity with their female counterparts? Yes, if men's magazines have anything to do with it. |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/fashion-time-for-the-men-to-try-it-are-these-the-new-supermodels-can-they-achieve-parity-with-their-1446630.html |website=Independent UK |date=September 3, 1994 |accessdate=15 May 2020 |ref=September 4, 1994: "...male models...have found new status, on the back of an urgent preoccupation with the male body...In advertising, fashion and cosmetics at least, men have become sex objects. They tower like gods in the pantheon of billboards above New York's Times Square in a state of chronic sexual readiness, muscles ripped and buffed, torsos marble smooth." |archive-date=November 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120080936/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/fashion-time-for-the-men-to-try-it-are-these-the-new-supermodels-can-they-achieve-parity-with-their-1446630.html |url-status=live }} foretold their pop-cultural notoriety,{{cite journal |last1=Siman |first1=Ken |title=This Model's Life |journal=Out |volume=26 |page=66 |ref="Tim is being chronicled because as a six-figure Wilhemina model, easily recognizable from Armani ads, Details, and the male supermodel cover of Arena, people he has never met gossip and daydream about him.” (Includes a photo of Boyce in an Armani print advertisement and the cover of Arena Homme +}} and with Boyce's words quoted as a headline on the cover, signaled a skill that he would demonstrate later in life as a writer.{{cite journal |last1=Boyce |first1=Tim |title=Frock 'n' Roll: Benatar Seminar |journal=Interview Magazine |date=September 1996 |ref=Interview between Tim Boyce and Pat Benatar}}{{cite web |last1=Boyce |first1=Tim |title=Frock 'n' Roll: Benatar Seminar |url=https://www.lemuseumdebenatar.com/timboyce.html |website=lemuseumdebenatar.com |publisher=Harold Bottomley |accessdate=13 May 2020 |ref="Frock 'n' Roll: Benatar Seminar" - Boyce's full interview and photos with Pan Benatar from the September 1996 issue of Interview Magazine. |archive-date=September 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919141827/http://lemuseumdebenatar.com/timboyce.html |url-status=live }} The accompanying profile on Boyce stated that he had been modeling for just 18 months, was represented by Ford Models and Select Model Management, and included details on how he was discovered by fashion consultant Wayne Scot Lukas in New York where he attended NYU.{{cite journal |last1=Leggett |first1=Carole |title=High Five |journal=Arena Homme + |date=1994 |volume=1 |issue=2 |page=15}} Lukas asked Boyce to test for a Levi's commercial which launched his career.{{cite journal |last1=Siman |first1=Ken |title=This Model's Life |journal=Out |date=October 1995 |volume=26 |page=68}} On the following pages, he is featured in ads for Gianfranco Ferre photographed by Bettina Rheims, Giorgio Armani Occhiali photographed by Peter Lindbergh, and in a fashion editorial photographed by Stephane Sednaoui with grooming by Michael Boadi.{{cite journal |last1=Sednaoui |first1=Stephane |title=Jeux Sans Frontieres |journal=Arena Homme + |date=1994 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=130–135}}
For the September 1996 issue of Interview, Boyce conducted a one-on-one interview with rock singer Pat Benatar, discussing the origins and legacy of her MTV era rock and roll image.{{cite journal |last1=Boyce |first1=Tim |title=Frock 'N' Roll - Benatar Seminar |journal=Interview Magazine |date=September 1996 |volume=26 |issue=9 |page=106}} Boyce joined Molly Haskell who interviewed Jeanne Moreau, Danny Glover who interviewed Harry Belafonte, and Mark Marvel who interviewed Joan Didion as a contributing writer of the magazine.{{cite journal |title=Contributors |journal=Interview Magazine |date=September 1996 |volume=26 |issue=9 |page=26}}
= Out Magazine Cover (1995) =
In the midst of his career, Boyce was featured on the October 1995 cover of Out with the headline: “Gay Model - Hanging Out with Supermodel Tim Boyce.”{{cite news |last1=Hanania |first1=Joseph |title=Closeted No Longer |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-29-ls-62323-story.html |newspaper=LA Times |publisher=Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong |accessdate=18 May 2020 |ref=Glance at the covers, and you won’t find the semi-nude hunk of the month, but female and male gay leaders in various fields--such as “gay super-model” Tim Boyce promoting Out magazine’s current fall fashion issue... |archive-date=November 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119063455/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-29-ls-62323-story.html |url-status=live }} The cover was accompanied by an article titled, “‘This Model's Life...24 hours on the trail of male supermodel Tim Boyce”{{cite journal |title=This Model's Life |journal=Out Magazine |volume=26 |page=4 |ref=In This Issue}} which covered aspects of Boyce's career, romantic life, and fitness regimen set against the streets of New York City.{{cite journal |last1=Siman |first1=Ken |title=This Model's Life |journal=Out Magazine |date=October 1995 |volume=26 |pages=66–70, 132–135}} The article, which also charted the course of the male modeling industry from the 1970s, noted that another gay male model pulled out of being included in the article despite recent advancements made by female gay and bisexual models such as Jenny Shimizu, Rachel Williams and Patricia Velasquez who made it safer to come out with less risk to their careers.{{cite journal |last1=Siman |first1=Ken |title=This Model's Life |journal=Out Magazine |date=October 1995 |volume=26 |page=134}}
Three years after Boyce's public disclosure in Out Magazine, the nation's leading gay and lesbian media platform,{{cite journal |last1=Abelson |first1=Reed |title=Out Magazine Acquired by The Advocate, a Key Rival |journal=New York Times |date=February 21, 2000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/21/business/out-magazine-acquired-by-the-advocate-a-key-rival.html |accessdate=18 May 2020 |ref=The publisher of Out magazine, the nation's most widely read magazine aimed at gay men and lesbians, has been acquired by the publisher of The Advocate, its major rival, according to the two companies. |archive-date=May 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509061816/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/21/business/out-magazine-acquired-by-the-advocate-a-key-rival.html |url-status=live }} he was mentioned in a 1998 article of another leading gay publication, The Advocate, that called out the fashion world for still not being a safe place for a gay model to come out and that being publicly gay was not perceived as an option.{{cite web |last1=Meers |first1=Erik |title=Runway Renegades: Surprisingly, Gay and Lesbian Models Find That Even in a Business Dominated by Other Gays, It's Still Not Safe to Be out on the Catwalk |url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-20425536/runway-renegades-surprisingly-gay-and-lesbian-models |website= |publisher=The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian news magazine) }}{{dead link|date=July 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Meers |first1=Erik |title=Runway Renegades: Surprisingly, gay an lesbian models find that even in a business dominated by other gays, it's still not safe to be out on the catwalk |journal=The Advocate |date=March 17, 1998 |pages=27–28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F2QEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Tim+boyce+%2B+gay&pg=PT28 |accessdate=18 May 2020}} In 2018, the reluctance of male models to come out remained an issue among fashion industry leaders, when the editor of British Vogue, Edward Enninful, explained that the Hollywood ideal of the “perfect man” prevented many gay male models from discussing their sexual preferences, that doing so may hinder their careers.{{cite news |last1=Barr |first1=Sabrina |title=EDWARD ENNINFUL EXPLAINS WHY GAY MALE MODELS FEEL AFRAID TO COME OUT |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/edward-enninful-gay-male-models-attitude-magazine-coming-out-hollywood-a8495766.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/edward-enninful-gay-male-models-attitude-magazine-coming-out-hollywood-a8495766.html |archive-date=May 7, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |accessdate=18 May 2020 |agency=Independent |issue=INDY/LIFE |publisher=Independent Digital News & Media Ltd |date=August 17, 2018}}{{cbignore}} “It's like...this old notion of what it meant to be a man and that this perfect man couldn't be gay. We know that's wrong,” Enninful said, adding that more models are beginning to feel comfortable coming out, a sign that the fashion industry is progressing in a positive way.{{cite news |last1=Foster |first1=Alistair |title=The Hollywood image of a perfect man stops gay male models coming out, says Edward Enninful |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/fashion/news/edward-enninful-british-vogue-hollywood-gay-models-a3913376.html |accessdate=18 May 2020 |agency=The Evening Standard |issue=Fashion News |publisher=Alexander Lebedev |date=August 16, 2018 |archive-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821032700/https://www.standard.co.uk/fashion/news/edward-enninful-british-vogue-hollywood-gay-models-a3913376.html |url-status=live }}