What is "xy"

XY was a gay male youth-oriented magazine published in the United States from 1996 to 2007. Its name was a reference to the XY chromosome pair found in males. XY magazine ceased publication in 2007, and its web site XY.com went offline in 2009. Much of the original staff went on to publish B Magazine.

XY or Xy may refer to:

• Xy (digraph), a digraph of the Romanized Popular Alphabet, used to write Hmong
• XY (magazine), a gay male youth magazine that also operated a personals website
• XY sex-determination system, a system in biology
• XY model, a model in physics
• xy coordinates, a system used to locate a point in two dimensions according to the cartesian coordinate system
• Xy, a member of the band Samael
• Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst