Model Heidi Klum on the cover of GQ.

Actor Nicholas Cage on the cover of the March, 1997 issue of GQ (U.S. edition)

Gentlemen's Quarterly, most often known simply as GQ, is a monthly men's magazine that focuses on men's fashion and style. It also features articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, toys, and books. It is generally perceived as more upscale than lad mags, such as Maxim or FHM. This perception is due to the fact that GQ aims towards an audience that is older and that has a higher income than most other men's magazines. Image File history File links This image is of a scan of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. ... Image File history File links This image is of a scan of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. ... Heidi Klum (born June 1, 1973) is a German supermodel, actress, fashion designer and artist born in Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... GQ can refer to several things: Gentlemens Quarterly, a mens magazine The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Equatorial Guinea GQ, a replacement Quake 1 game engine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Nicholas Cage on the cover of GQ (U.S. edition), March, 1997. ... Nicholas Cage on the cover of GQ (U.S. edition), March, 1997. ... Nicolas Cage (born January 7, 1964) is an American actor. ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles. ... The term fashion applies to a characteristic means of expression or presentation; fashions may follow trends, in which they gain or lose popularity. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... Fitness in biology refers to individuals ability to propagate its genes. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Meta has a page about this at: Music markup MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia The... Consumer electronics is electronic equipment intended for use by everyday people. ... Look up book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Lad mag is a condescending term for a magazine for men that features pictures of scantily clad actresses and models, accompanied by brief articles about the women, consumer stories about tools and toys, and guy tales of sex -- mostly how to get more. ... A 2004 cover of Maxim (US) magazine, featuring Josie Maran The cover of the first American issue of Maxim magazine, featuring Christa Miller Maxim is an international lad mag that is prominent for depicting popular actresses, singers, and female models in sexually alluring poses, usually wearing lingerie or other brief... FHM, an abbreviation for For Him Magazine, is a monthly lads mag. ...

Gentlemen's Quarterly was launched in 1957 by Esquire as a fashion quarterly for Esquire readers. The magazine moved from quarterly to monthly publication in the 1970s, still concentrating on only fashion and style and attracting a primarily gay readership. Cover of an issue of Esquire magazine. ... Castro Street in San Francisco Look up gay in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

In 1983 editor Art Cooper changed the course of the magazine, introducing articles beyond fashion, targeting heterosexual and meterosexual men and establishing GQ as a general men's magazine in competition with Esquire. Heterosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love or sexual desire exclusively for members of the opposite sex or gender, contrasted with homosexuality and distinguished from bisexuality and asexuality. ... Origins and common usage Metrosexual was coined in 1994 (as was its noun, metrosexuality) by British journalist Mark Simpson, who used it to refer to an urban male of any sexual orientation who has a strong aesthetic sense and spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance...

GQ is published by Conde Nast Publications. As of December 31, 2003, GQ is ranked 114th in the world in circulation reaching 788,851 people (Adage.com). Condé Nast Publications Inc. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The magazine name's abbreviation has also lent itself into an adjective term - GQ (somewhat datedly now) means a man who dresses and acts suavely. An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually making its meaning more specific. ...

See also

• List of men's magazines

This is a list of magazines marketed primarily for men. ...

External links

• Official website (U.S.)
• Official website (UK)
• Official website (South Africa)
• Official website (Japan)
• International portal page