Elliot Page on cover of New York magazine’s first Men’s Style issue draws mixed reaction online

New York magazine put actor Elliot Page on one of four covers for its first-ever standalone Men’s Style issue, a special edition subtitled “A Special Issue About Putting Clothes On and Taking Them Off Again.”

The magazine previewed the cover on X on Monday. It shows Mr. Page, 39, shirtless in blue striped shorts, arms crossed, leaning against a wooden door, according to coverage of the issue, which is due on newsstands later this week.

The shoot was set at the Russian & Turkish Baths in Manhattan’s East Village and was photographed by Ryan McGinley. The magazine said the participants include “regulars and newcomers” such as Troye Sivan, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist and Eddie Huang.

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In the issue, Mr. Page said he has only recently come to appreciate bathhouses as a place to “sit around in your body like that.”

Mr. Page, best known for “Juno” and “The Umbrella Academy,” announced he is transgender in a December 2020 Instagram post. This summer he appeared as Sinon in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”

The cover has divided social media users. Some questioned the photograph and the decision to run a shirtless image on a style issue, while others defended it as deliberately unconventional.

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