March 2010
Influences & Contributors
Letters
Editor’s Letter
By the Numbers
FOREGROUND
Tough Break
Guillermo Díaz has forged a career playing inglorious bastards. But sometimes even the bad guy needs to queen out.
Wanderlust For Life
On his purty new folk-pop album, singer Mark Hamilton looks far and wide for love.
Gentlemanly Pursuits
Do the locomotion.
Live the Life
Freddie Mercury: rock’s Queen of fashion
Homo Plus
Duckie Brown invades Brooklyn.
The Blue Print
A salute to America’s most enduring fabric.
O Say Can You See?
Patriotism charges the runway.
Swingers Party
From Spartacus to 300, we celebrate our favorite sword-wielding studs of antiquity.
Liquidity
Bourbon: America in a bottle.
Destination
Vauxhall is London’s cruisy new playground.
Sex, Lies & LSD
A new biography explores Ram Dass’s long, strange trip to sexual enlightenment.
Can I Be Blunt?
Martha Plimpton’s pact with the gays.
DEPARTMENTS
Surveillance
Our guide to the finer things in life: Republic’s made-to-order track bike, D.C.’s Donovan House, and Sonos’s dockless sound system.Store Info
Scene
The parties you didn’t know you missedModel Citizen
Chris Jones gives poker face.SYMPOSIUM
Someone Saved My Life
How Sir Elton John became fairy godmother to drug-addled stars.
All About His Mother
In search of the elusive gay father.Showcase Showdown
In his new film, wunderkind director Xavier Dolan details the torturous, touching relationship between a gay teen and his mother.
FEATURES
American Classics
80 ways the gays forever changed America.
Ewan McGregor
He’s kissed dudes, fished heroin out of a filthy toilet, and flashed his penis more than a few times. As he tackles his latest role, playing a gay man in love with the ultimate escape artist, the actor gives us the dirt.
FASHION
Young Americans
Spring’s hottest new looks, starring some of our proudest countrymen.
