On the Rag, Vol. 594

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

QX: Now here's a drag queen!

Get Out: Pattaya Hart is Miss Gay America 2020

Metro Weekly: Dissonance Dance’s Shawn Short is ensuring his place within D.C.’s storied legacy of dance 

HotSpots: Pride Factory Fashion

Grab: Tracy Young, Meghan Trainor and Josh Moore

Between the Lines: Meghan Trainor on LGBTQ-influenced body confidence

Gloss: Get wet with Mr. Rubber San Francisco

A&U: Forty years at the center of LGBTQ and HIV civil rights battles, activist Ken Jones talks about what we can learn from our history for today’s fight

Q Salt Lake: Miss USA Pageant’s first out LGBTQ contestant is Miss Utah USA

Dallas Voice: In for a penny, in for a Poundstone

Attitude: David Gandy at 40

On the Rag, Vol. 450

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

Gay Times (U.K.): Max Emerson and boyfriend fuel our thirst with shirtless snaps in London

QX (London): In praise of 21st century Madonna!

The Gay U.K.: David Gandy unveils his latest Marks and Spencer campaign!

HIV Plus: The ever-reliable Charlie Sheen says there are more poz stars in Hollywood.

Get Out!: Relationship goals with Victor and Javi.

Metro Weekly (D.C.): Anthony Rapp talks about playing a man obsessed, the years he spent in "Rent," and his historic role as a gay character on the new "Star Trek."

DNA (Australia): Luis Ansa flaunts what he's got -- and it's a lot.

Echo (Phoenix): This year's festival offers a diverse collection of ways to celebrate Pride.

Winq (U.K.): Ex-"Coronation Street" star Scott Wright shows off incredible 12-week body transformation.

Tetu (France): Toulouse: security costs threaten Pride 2017.

Out in Jersey: Catching up with "Fun Home" writer Alison Bechdel.

Grab (Chicago): Get your flower power with Roberto Gonzalez. 

Passport: How about a romantic getaway to the Sonoma Valley?

Q Salt Lake: Here comes the wedding issue.

MetroSource: Another long look at adolescent love in "Departure."

Attractive Men: Not sure what this even is, but I guess Unattractive Men didn't quite have the same ring to it.

Morning Wood

   He looks good in his BIRTHDAY SUIT, too. 

On the Rag, Vol. 340

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

Frontiers (L.A.) introduces us to the 10 hottest male models working today / Read HERE.

Next: Lance Bass opens up about swapping "I dos" with the man of his dreams -- where else??? -- on national TV / Read HERE.

Get Out! magazine gets naked with designer Stevie Boi / Read HERE.

Metro Weekly: With vinyl on the rise, we check out 14 D.C. area stores that will feed your record-collecting addiction / Read HERE.

Grab: My friend just spent a week in Key West with Russell Tovey and Co. for a mutual friend's birthday and he didn't even bring me back a pair of the bloke's pants / Read HERE.

Echo: Local Phoenix band Fairy Bones -- aka Chelsey Louise, Robert Ciuca, brothers Matt and Ben Foos -- have just released their first full-length album / Read HERE.

Whipping Boy - Single - Fairy Bones

Waiting - Single - Fairy Bones

Learn more HERE.

(I wonder if they are Killer Pussy fans.)

The Gandy Man Can

If David Gandy is No. 62, then my ego almost fears seeing 1 through 61.

(He looks equally good naked.)

Talk About Getting Lucky

 David Gandy looks good in blue, although he still looks better naked.

David Gandy Looks Really Good Naked

SEE?

The Best-Dressed Men of 2013

I thought I did pretty well for myself, but Details decided who made the fashion cut -- starting with dandy David Gandy -- HERE.

Jason Clarke and Tom Cullen clean up nicely, too

The Gandy Man Can

  Or at least one hopes.

The Speedo That Launched a Million Fantasies

From a friend, who writes:

Nightline "discovers" David Gandy, seven years after his white-Speedo-clad D&G fragrance ad...

Not to bury the lede, but he actually looks better OUT OF IT.

Randy for Gandy

You can hardly blame Dolce or Gabbana for making a coffee-table book of photos of David Gandy, the model who shot to fame in a white Speedo as the, uh, face of the designers' Light Blue fragrance. (Yowza!) I see the handsome Brit was looking good at Wimbledon yesterday, too.