GQ (short for Gentlemen's Quarterly and previously known as Apparel Arts) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.

The publication focuses on fashion, style, and culture for men, though articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, travel, celebrities' sports, technology, and books are also featured.

[22] In 2010, GQ magazine had three adult members of the television show Glee (Dianna Agron, Lea Michele and Cory Monteith) partake in a photoshoot.

The Parents Television Council was the first to react to the photo spread when it was leaked prior to GQ's planned publishing date.

Their president Tim Winter stated, "By authorizing this kind of near-pornographic display, the creators of the program have established their intentions on the show's directions.

[23] GQ's September 2009 U.S. magazine published, in its "backstory" section, an article by Scott Anderson, "None Dare Call It Conspiracy".

Before GQ published the article, an internal email from a Condé Nast lawyer referred to it as "Vladimir Putin's Dark Rise to Power".

The story, including Trepashkin's own findings, contradicted the Russian Government's official explanation of the bombings and criticized Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

[26] The day after the magazine's publication in the United States, bloggers published the original English text and a translation into Russian on the internet.

[30] On April 6, 2023, the Colombian singer Karol G took to social media to share that the photo used on the cover of an issue of GQ Mexico was "disrespectful" and a misleading depiction of the way her body and face naturally looks.