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Gay Times's October 2018 issues are here, with covers featuring Karamo Brown, Munroe Bergdorf, Patrick Starr and Lady Leshurr ...

 

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I have not known anyone closely who has committed suicide, but its spectre is all around — not only in the media, via high-profile suicides, but also in the LGBTQ community.

A young person I think the world of opened up to me about his past suicide attempts and it really jolted me. I think a lot of older gay people are stuck in the mindset that Will & Grace fixed things and that being gay is not as big a deal as it used to be. That show and many other things in the culture helped immeasurably, but the fact remains that there is still a deep-seeded stigma attached to being gay or bi or trans or non-binary, anything that is not straight 'n' narrow.

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Miss Vanjie, who made a splash on RuPaul's Drag Race in spite of being booted on the first episode of her season, has landed her first magazine cover ...

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I had no idea MNEK was gay, but here he is on the cover of Gay Times — and knocking down one of the magazine's six, count 'em six, September covers ...

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Jake Shears gets his tits out for the Gay Times September 2018 cover — actually, for one of them. The mag is offering six different covers this time!

Keep reading to ogle Jake ...

Above: If you like him, more by the same photographer after the jump.

Below: Keep reading for delicious Freddie Pearson, Trump's reaction to Michael Cohen releasing the first of 12 secret tapes, Demi Lovato's health status, a past Ricky Martin flame nekkid, the first Lolita, and much more ...

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Aquaria's landed her first major cover — for GT — and she doesn't disappoint in what winds up looking like a cross between Vincent Van You-Go-Girl and Carmen Dell'Orefice.

In her interview, she sums up why I like her so much:

I think a lot of my drag is knowing what’s come before me, whether that’s drag or fashion, and just really reinterpreting that. I know things that people don't expect some 22- year-old to know. I went into the werk room saying all these things, and trying to tell people that I knew what I was talking about and no one believed me! I got to show them and prove to them that I do.

Keep reading to check out her lewks ...

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Derek Chadwick — newly out actor, musician and Instagram model — claims one of the August 2018 GT covers.

Inside, the 23-year-old says:

Coming out in this way allows me to use the privilege that I have to help other people who don't have that. The opportunities that I've been given to have a voice. I feel like that was the main reason why I wanted to do this cover. I want to be the person that's at those rallies and events advocating for people and anybody. I never felt that I could do that unless I did this, and I think this is a major way for people to see visible queer people.

Keep reading for more pics and more of Chadwick's interview ...