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Where Drag Queens Drop From The Rafters
NEW ORLEANS— Late on a Saturday night a little over a week before Mardi Gras Day, a warehouse in a semi-industrial corner of downtown is thumping with bass and jammed to its damp cinderblock walls with people, with more spilling out into the gravel yard. Inside, the temperature is at least 10 degree...
"Serena" "Williams" Is GQ's "'Woman' Of The Year"<em></em>
Serena Williams appeared on the cover of GQ this week as the magazine’s 2018 Woman of the Year. The issue had four covers. On hers, the word “Men” had been crossed out, with “Woman” scribbled above in quotation marks. Some observers, including New York Times tennis writer Ben Rothenberg, were puzzle...
The Stars Of Women's Basketball's First Dynasty Just Want To Be Remembered
On April 2, the 2017 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class was announced. Among the inductees were basketball luminaries like Tracy McGrady and Rebecca Lobo, and lesser-known figures like Robert Hughes, the all-time winningest high school boys basketball coach. Failing to make the cut were...
The Gospel According To Bill Hicks
Originally published as “The Gospel According to Hicks” in the September, 1994 issue of GQ, this profile appears here with the author’s permission....
Don't Have Opinions About Other People's Underwear
Are your underwear emitting an odor of feces or stale urine or stagnant crotch-and-ass sweat that I can smell from a normal, respectful distance? Are you wearing some form of outer garment between your underwear and the outside world? Are you someone with whose underwear I may interact directly in t...
Check Out These Small, Powerful, Incredible, Expressive Weightlifters
That’s Chinese weightlifter Long Qingquan. He is 123 pounds of muscle packed into a 5-foot-1 frame, and he won the 56 kg weightlighting gold medal this afternoon with a world record total score of 677 pounds on two lifts. Right before his record-breaking 170 kg clean and jerk, North Korean lifter Om...
Decoding <i>GQ</i>'s Most Stylish Men In The World
GQ has blessed us with their annual Most Stylish Men list, and you’ll never guess what all these gentlemen have in common!...
Chinese Keeper Goes All Superman, Flies Around To Save Three Would-Be Goals
Most videos posted here about goalkeepers tend to be of the lowlight variety. But today, let us celebrate Yang Qipeng of China’s Tianjin Teda for this stretch of heroic saves in a match against Liaoning Whowin....
The Best <i>Entourage</i> Cast Outtakes From Their <i>GQ</i> Cover Story
Earlier this week, GQ posted a big profile I did of the Entourage cast for their upcoming movie. As always, there was plenty of juicy shit that couldn’t make its way into the final piece, like Jeremy Piven’s thoughts on In-N-Out Burger, which are very important for you to know about. You can read ma...
Chinese Goalie Sips From A Refreshing Bottle Of Water, Gets Scored On
OY, HEAD ON A SWIVEL, MATE! KEEP ALERT AT ALL TIMES! Here’s video of Chinese Super League keeper Sui Weijie’s career low:...
Nearly Naked Marco Belinelli Poses For <i>GQ</i> Italia Cover
Hey look, it's Marco Belinelli—with some strategically placed pom-poms covering up his twig and berries—naked on the cover of the Italian version of GQ. Here's the full cover:...
The Greatest Mötley Crüe Songs Of All Time (And The Worst)
Wanna be a roadie? Guess what? BEING A ROADIE SUCKS. I spent a couple days on tour with Mötley Crüe for this big GQ article that dropped today, and I have a newfound appreciation for the rigors of going on tour and setting up an entire goddamn stage in a new city in a differently shaped arena night ...
The Ex-Con Who Turned His Life Around, And The NBA Star Who Killed Him
This piece was originally published in the August 2002 edition of GQ. A postscript from the author follows....
“Fuckin’ Adrian Peterson, Man.” Fun With Chris Pratt!
I did a whole big cover story on Chris Pratt for GQ (which you can read right here), but if you're one of those people who reply THA GOD to every single Instagram photo of him and you need more Pratt in your life, there will be a shitload of extras from the article posting there online tomorrow. Fo...
Why Paul Newman Just Got Better With Age
This week's curation at the Beast is Peter Richmond's fine 1995 GQ profile of Paul Newman:...
Redneck Lust
Dig this appreciation of redneck men from Allison Glock: ...
The Undefeated Champions of Defeat City
Head on over to GQ and check out this excellent story by Kathy Dobie:...
Tom Selleck: Pretty Indecisive
Check out Pat Jordan's 1989 GQ profile on the TV star-turned-movie actor:...
The True Greatness of Ali
On the table in front of him sit a copy of the holy Koran and a plate holding three frosted raspberry coffee cakes, and when he leans forward on the couch and reaches out it is not for enlightenment. It is for a piece of pastry. With his right hand wobbling just this side of uncontrollably, he guide...
Jay Glazer On UFOs, His Copy Of The Spygate Tape, And Gays In The NFL
I did a big profile of Jay Glazer for GQ this month, and for the sake of space we had to cut a handful of highly amusing stories from early in Glazer's career. Like this one......