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This month’s hunky cover guy is Jersey boy John Dougherty. Check out his scorching swimwear shoot! We’ve caught the travel bug this month and take a look at the best of Budapest, Munich and hop aboard the Ghan, Australia’s greatest rail link. Our Compass Points story highlights some G and L friendly tours that are coming up to Bali, Miami, Rio, Argentina, Peru, India and ski weeks in New Zealand and Australia. Our music editor places Kylie’s Aphrodite under the microscope and delivers the all-important verdict. Lady Gaga releases her third album in two years and we sit down and have a chat with cute and quirky Sia and Scissor Sisters. Not to be outdone by the girls, we also speak to a beautiful person from Beautiful People, DILF Aidan McArdle. Sir-Mixes-A-Alot Dave Aude takes time-out from his hectic schedule to chat to DNA and Lucas Kane Hall talks about what it’s like to be an Aussie making it big in the Big Apple. Our senior writer Nick Cook had a busy month. Not only did he catch up with three of our craziest comedians for lunch he had a travel assignment Melbourne travel story that turned into a wild weekend of fabulous debauchery in Melbourne. Meanwhile, don’t miss Nick’s insightful feature, Generations, on the life across the generations, and his interview with political hopeful, Kevin Ekendahl. “I’d sleep with George Clooney!” says 7PM Project’s Charlie Pickering. He’s our Straight Mate this month and Paul Ewart takes a close look at trunks. We review the newest range of queer reads and dirty books as well as seeing some of the finest work of model Henny.