FEARLESS RICKEY THOMPSON AND THE NEW QUEER BLACK MALE CONTENTS NOVEMBER 2018 Foreground Features 9. THE NEXT REAL DEAL 48. TEN PLACES TO GO IN 201 Claire Foy: from Elizabeth to Lisbeth Our guide to this season’s hottest destinations 12-16. THE AGENDA Everything in pop culture you 54. INCHING TO STARDOM should be talking about right now Inside the phenomenon of new social media porn platforms 17, 18. TRENDING like OnlyFans Posh purses and protective parkas 60. POP GOES KIM PETRAS 23. GROOMING The budding diva’s escapist This is the rhythm of the night. pop sells an irresistible fantasy, but what’s the reality 24. KITCHEN 411 behind the bops? Oakland’s diverse restaurant scene 68. YOUNG, LOUD, AND FREE 25. LIQUIDITY Social media sensation Vodka’s new shelf life Rickey Thompson is a stylish and joyous face of a new 26. WELLNESS movement of outspoken queer Is yoga just masking your pain? black men. 27. THE GETAWAY 80. NO INTERMISSION Late Birds is Lisbon’s all-gay hotel. Playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris might be the tireless 28. PLAYGROUND queer black savior the theater There’s a spot for everyone world needs. at Mexico City’s Pervert. Orbit Symposium 85. Queen 101 31. THE MANY FIBERS OF BEING As Bohemian Rhapsody Artist Jefrey Gibson rejoices in merging his struts into theaters, we queer and Native American identities. serve up a beginner’s quide to the band that’s 34. EMERGENCY CONTACT penetrated our culture Comedian Lane Moore gets brutally honest. for decades. 35. EXPRESS MALE ORDER What your undies say about you DEPARTMENTS 36. PERSONAL IS POLITICAL 0 6. Contributors The reality for queer people living in Serbia Kim Petras photographed by and Feedback Martin Schoeller. 88. Store Info 42. BLACK, BROWN, AND GAY Styling by Matthew Mazur How Mary Washington flipped the script in Dress by Adam Selman. Maryland’s battle for marriage equality ON THE COVER: Earrings by Alessandra Rich. Necklace by Rory Rockmore Rickey Thompson 42. 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NOVEMBER 2018 CONTRIBUTORS FEEDBACK ROYTEL MONTERO Robyn’s Return Roytel Montero bonded Eightyearsisalongtimefor with Rickey Thompson anymusiciantogowithout over their coming-out releasingnewmusic.Butwhen stories while working on aglobalsuperstarlikeRobyn our cover story (pg. 68). “Unlike him, I made a pact is the one coming back from with myself that I’d never an almost decade-long hiatus, come out formally,” he theimpatienceofthemusic said. “Now, I’ve written industry—and her throng of an article in Out, and my adolescent heart is soaring with pride.” Montero fans from around the world— has previously written about LGBTQ entrepreneurs canbeoverwhelming.For and is currently developing an interview series. He Out’s October cover story, the also writes for Paper and Forbes. 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Miss Tiger, who breaks of our Power 50 stars, she not only down what your undies knows how to wield her power right say about you in her side- With Great Power… splitting sex column (pg. 35). The advice-giver has now, she also knows how to inspire been featured in Vanity Teen and Da Man, and she Beingaqueerpersonwithpower younger generations to do the same. had her own monthly segment on SiriusXM Radio. is a multifaceted role. A balance She is currently developing a podcast. ofvisibility,culturalimpact, Correction financial clout, political influence, In the Power 50 portfolio in Out’s October issue, andactivismisnecessary,andthe honoree Lena Waithe was listed as a co-creator DUSTY ST. AMAND of the series Master of None. She in fact has honorees of this year’s Power 50 worked as a co-writer on the show, for which Photographer Dusty St. list each covered those bases in she won an Emmy. Out regrets the error. Amand loved snapping their own way. Among perennial intimate photos of giantslikeRyanMurphy, model Macho for our WRITE TO OUT story on the rise of Anderson Cooper, and Rachel social sites like Only Maddow(ourtopthreethisyear) Email: [email protected] Fans(pg.