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G Magazine

LGBT magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ176876
Source-derived summary

G Magazine was a Brazilian gay men's magazine from 1997 until 2013 that featured frontal nudity (including erections) and articles for the gay community, created by Ana Fadigas. It was a monthly publication that sold approximately 180,000 issues every month, about half of Playboy. Its online version was G Online.

The magazine featured nude photographs of dozens of Brazilian celebrities as well as foreign celebrities, such as Warren Cuccurullo, guitarist for Duran Duran. Among these Brazilian celebrities are actors Alexandre Frota, Matheus Carrieri and Victor Wagner, model Klaus Hee, DJs, singers Rodrigo Phavanello, Márcio Aguiar and David Cardoso Junior as well as footballers of the national team and other professional teams and contestants of the Brazilian version of Big Brother and other reality shows.

Editorial summary

“G Magazine” enters the record as lGBT magazine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Magazine, LGBT and magazine can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Magazine, LGBT and magazine.
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Why this record matters

“G Magazine” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Magazine, LGBT and magazine provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q176876. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from G Magazine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.