On the Rag, Vol. 553

A weekly look at what's making news in the gay magazines:

HotSpots (South Florida): Pump hard with these muscle-building strategies

Bay Times: The Castro Animal Hospital brings San Francisco values to groundbreaking veterinary practice

Get Out!: What's your safe word?

Q Salt Lake: BYU valedictorian in graduation speech: ‘I am proud to be a gay son of God’

QX (London): 7 years of R & She

Vintage male models strut their stuff in itsy bitsy swimsuits circa 1951

Rage Monthly: Jumping for joy with underwear purveyor B.J. Croft

Metro Weekly (D.C.): Cheers to NBC4’s Wendy Rieger, the perfect best friend to the LGBTQ community

Happy 25th anniversary to this queer Washington weekly! 

DNA (Australia): Simon Dunn fitness column to be regular feature

Between the Lines: The Motor City builds cooperatively

Grab (Chicago): Cooking with chef Charles Laurent

Dallas Voice: I need a super high octane, savage wedding gift idea -- something different than just another set of ben-wa anal balls everybody else is gonna bore-the-whore bring, you know?

Gay general removed as USAF Academy commandant of cadets

Gloss: This is Ben Platt

Adelante: New swimwear looks for summer

Gay Times (U.K.): Lauren Jauregui speaks on modern LGBTQ activism, finding herself as a solo artist and why political ignorance is dangerous in our increasingly bigoted climate.

Ryan O’Connell of 'Special': It was really intense because I was speaking for a community of people that don’t have many opportunities to tell their stories