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The Naked Ambition of the Heated Rivalry Boys
Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams were both virtual unknowns when they signed up to star as on-the-DL hockey players in a boldly smutty gay romance shot for a Canadian streamer. Now that the series is 2025’s biggest surprise hit, they’re navigating unfamiliar territory (and negotiating unprecedented thirst)—but at least they have each other to lean on.

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The Icon GQ+A: Robert Duvall
In 2014, the Godfather consigliere talked to us about what he's learned from his four marriages, rooming with Dustin Hoffman, and how he'd want to be remembered.

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BTS Begins Again
In the nearly four years since they went on break for mandatory military service in South Korea, the members of BTS have grown as artists and men, launching distinct solo careers to huge success. Now, the biggest band in the world is reuniting with a fifth studio album, a massive global tour, and a definitive answer to whether they’re stronger alone or together.
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A Day on the Farm With Rob Rausch
The 27-year-old snake wrangler became a reality TV sensation, first on Love Island and now as the winner of the latest season of The Traitors. GQ traveled down to Alabama to hang with Rausch on his own turf and learn exactly how he got so good at the game.

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Rolex Opened a College—and It’s as Selective as Harvard
America has fewer than 2,000 professional watchmakers. Rolex’s new Dallas school aims to fix that—and the demand for admission says a lot about the state of work in 2026.

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10 Things GQ Readers Couldn't Stop Buying in February
Uniqlo's best sweatpants. Le Labo's latest cologne. A stupidly affordable suit. Here's what you all added to cart.

Even Tony Kushner Warned Steven Spielberg About Making Munich
Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get into an enormous amount of trouble” when Spielberg decided to do the movie.
Melania May Go Down in History as One of the Least Revealing Documentaries Ever Made
But if you've never watched the First Lady get on and off a plane, Brett Ratner's got a movie for you.

The Moment Tucker Carlson Entered His Joker Arc
Jason Zengerle, author of a revealing new book about Tucker Carlson’s career, Hated by All the Right People, discusses the rightwing media kingpin’s potential presidential ambitions and much more: “I don’t think he just wants to be a podcaster. I think he really wants to change the country.”

In Minneapolis, Vintage Dealers Build Mutual-Aid Networks as ICE Raids Intensify
“We know we are the ones who keep us safe,” says store owner Jessie Witte, as area vintage shops transform into command centers for neighborhood defense networks.

More Importantly, What Was the Weather Like During JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette's Infamous Park Fight?
He’s wearing shorts, she’s dressed like Christopher Moltisanti. Make it make sense!

Ed Sheeran Is the First Person on Earth With This IWC Chronograph
The new IWC Portugieser Chronograph Ceratanium adds a stealthy look and extreme durability to the famed dress watch.

A Day on the Farm With Rob Rausch
The 27-year-old snake wrangler became a reality TV sensation, first on Love Island and now as the winner of the latest season of The Traitors. GQ traveled down to Alabama to hang with Rausch on his own turf and learn exactly how he got so good at the game.

Did Love Story Get John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Big Fight Right?
A walk through Battery Park leads to (mostly historically accurate!) fireworks in the new episode of the FX series.
Yes, the Pat Riley Statue Is Wearing Armani
Los Angeles has a suave new reminder of the Showtime Lakers and their 1980s style god.
This Was the Olympics of Teeth
The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics gave us plenty of indelible images—including the wildly disparate, equally memorable dental situations of Jack Hughes and Alysa Liu.

Meet the NBA’s Surging New Superstar, Cade Cunningham
At 24, the Detroit Pistons point guard has begun to steadily reverse the fate of his long-beleaguered franchise—becoming one of the youngest and most laid-back members of the league’s ultra elite. GQ hung out with him in the Motor City and his hometown of Dallas to learn the secret to his relaxed greatness.

How a Skeleton Olympian Trains for Gold
“Skeleton athletes are basically a hybrid between a weight-lifter and a sprinter,” says Britain’s 28-year-old gold medalist skeleton ‘slider’ Matt Weston.
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Gloria Steinem Gathered Celebrities to Discuss Masculinity. They Argued Over the Dishes
Amy Schumer, Kandi Burruss, divorce lawyer-slash-influencer James Sexton, and more joined Steinem in her living room to probe whether there is such a thing as non-toxic masculinity.

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Is Charleston, South Carolina, the Greatest City in America?
The airport is 15 minutes from downtown. The restaurants are on point. And this week, unlike New York, it wasn’t buried in snow. Can you blame GQ columnist and civic booster Chris Black for getting a little bit excited?

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How Love Story’s Paul Anthony Kelly Became JFK Jr.
The out-of-nowhere star strapped on John-John’s Rollerblades—and shouldered the tragic legacy of an American icon—to lead Ryan Murphy’s latest hit.

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GQ Bulks Up the Print Issue
Here's why the next issue of GQ Magazine you receive may appear heftier and more luxurious.

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How Industry Curated the Best Soundtrack on TV
Music supervisor Ollie White talks about treating the trading floor like a dance floor, and the Season 4 soundtrack cut that almost broke the bank. Plus: A playlist of Industry's greatest needle drops.

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Viral ‘Get ’Em Banned’ Peloton Instructor Kendall Toole Talks Movies With Tap In
Toole, who launched her own wellness app in November, talks to GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe about Hitchcock, the “Kubrick stare,” her Letterboxd top 4, and life as a meme.

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Behind the Scenes of Industry's Most Intense Episode Ever
On set in Cardiff, Wales with Kit Harington and Max Minghella at a turning point for Tender.

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Jam Cruise Is a Five-Day Escape From the Harsh Realities of a Troubled World. But Should It Be?
How a short, strange sea voyage with 30 jam bands and a small army of freaks and wooks made one writer homesick for the shit-show back on shore.

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Summer House's Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula Are the Doomed Reality-TV Couple We Can't Turn Away From
The Bravo stars announced their divorce in January. Their ten-season run on Summer House has been a long day's journey into night.
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Inside Clavicular’s Thirsty Tour of New York City
Rolling with the lord of online “looksmaxxing” as he meets the press, hits the runway, and tangles with his haters during a chaotic weekend in Manhattan.

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What Ozempic Taught Me About Style and Self-Worth
I have always loved clothes. Gaining 100 pounds robbed me of my sense of style, but not my interest in fashion. Nine months on GLP-1s and a diary changed everything all over again.

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Went Full ‘Battle of the Bastards’ (and Then Some) This Week
With “In the Name of the Mother,” the Thrones spin-off pivots from light-hearted comedy to visceral violence in a sequence that rivals its predecessor's biggest, gnarliest battles.

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The Jeff Buckley Cover That's Better Than His “Hallelujah”
A new documentary about his life has us thinking about his real high-water mark as an interpreter.

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Horny Isabella Linton is the Best Part of “Wuthering Heights”
Allison Oliver goes for broke as Jacob Elordi's revenge rebound

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In Industry Season Four, Zillenials and Zoomers Feel Their Age
The HBO trading-floor drama has morphed into the first great TV show about hyperachieving cuspers staring down adulthood's big chill.

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Even Industry's Max Minghella Isn't Sure How Whitney Really Feels About Henry
Tender's tech-bro sociopath on this week's episode “Dear Henry,” that shower scene, and why singing Whitney Houston was a “miracle moment.”
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Hudson Williams Threw the Best New York Fashion Week Party (Possibly Ever)
Hudsonmania hits NYFW as the Heated Rivalry heartthrob celebrates Lunar New Year with mahjong, karaoke, and dancing during a Gold House party at New York’s Chinese Tuxedo.

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Is Crime 101 the New Heat?
Kind of! But it's also the new Blackhat. And the new Collateral. And the new Thief. But (mostly!) in a good way!

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Did Calvin Klein Really Introduce JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette?
We answer that, and all the other fashion and cultural-history questions you may have after watching Love Story, the new Ryan Murphy-produced series about the two ’90s style icons.
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Kid Rock's Super Bowl of Spite
While Bad Bunny threw a halftime party for everyone capable of feeling emotions other than outrage, TPUSA counterprogrammed with a jorts-clad Bob Ritchie phoning it in. This is how you lose a culture war, writes GQ columnist Chris Black.