Raymond Ang

New York

Associate Director of Editorial Operations at GQ

@GQMagazine / previously @WSJ

Articles

We're All Aboard the Morgan Spector Train

1 week ago | gq.com | Raymond Ang

In a room full of John Singer Sargent paintings of the Gilded Age’s dollar princesses, it’s hard not to notice the men. Sargent was famous for his mythmaking portraits of the era’s socialites. But the cosmopolitan bachelor reserved his most feverishly sensual work for his mysterious, initially unseen male muses.
We're All Aboard the Morgan Spector Train

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Raymond Ang

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Ocean Vuong, ¿la última gran celebridad literaria de Estados Unidos?: “Mi objetivo es encontrar la manera de dejar de escribir. Cuando llegue al octavo, pararé”

1 month ago | revistagq.com | Raymond Ang

Llueve el día que quedo con Ocean Vuong para comer en Frenchette, una brasserie de Tribeca abarrotada de banqueros, poderosos personajes del mundo del arte y señoras de alta sociedad con su ropa de Pilates bajo sus abrigos de The Row y Khaite. Vuong reside actualmente en Massachusetts, pero su agente vive por esta zona, y el restaurante se ha convertido en un lugar muy práctico para comer.
How Benito Skinner made Overcompensating

1 month ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Raymond Ang

It’s a gloomy weekday afternoon in Manhattan but inside Boxers, a neon-lit watering hole that bills itself as “America's gay sports bar”, it might as well be last call. The reggaeton’s blaring, the pool table’s buzzing, and our bartender, Javier? Stripped down to his boxers, welcoming the clientele with bedroom eyes, a half-fade, and abs you could grate a wedge of parmesan on. “Where’s your husband?” Javier asks a regular, a beefy unc in a plaid shirt and horn-rimmed glasses.
Ocean Vuong Never Believed the Hype

1 month ago | gq.com | Raymond Ang

It's a rainy day in New York when I meet Ocean Vuong for lunch at Frenchette, and the Tribeca brasserie is crowded with bankers, art-world power players, and ladies who lunch, their Pilates athleisure hidden under coats from The Row and Khaite. Vuong calls Massachusetts home these days, but his agent lives nearby and the restaurant has become a convenient place for lunch meetings. He orders fish soup and a plate of charred carrots, almost without consulting the menu.
Woldy Reyes Presents His Take on Classic Filipino Dishes

1 month ago | vogue.ph | Raymond Ang

On a March afternoon so balmy you can see spring right around the corner, I meet the Filipino-American chef Woldy Reyes in Grill 21, a cheerfully dive-y Filipino eatery in Manhattan’s East Village. The leaves are still brown outside but in Grill 21, the flowers are in full bloom; at least the hand-painted ones on the walls, found in charmingly upbeat murals depicting tropical life.
How Viral Video Star Benito Skinner Made the Sitcom of the Summer

1 month ago | gq.com | Raymond Ang

It’s a gloomy weekday afternoon in Manhattan but inside Boxers, a neon-lit watering hole that bills itself as “America's gay sports bar,” it might as well be last call. The reggaeton’s blaring, the pool table’s buzzing, and our bartender, Javier? Stripped down to his boxers, welcoming the clientele with bedroom eyes, a half-fade, and abs you could grate a wedge of pecorino on. “Where’s your husband?” Javier asks a regular, a beefy unc in a plaid shirt and horn-rimmed glasses.
Queer Asian Rom-Coms Are Back in Cinemas. They Took A Long Road to Get There

2 months ago | them.us | Raymond Ang

This article originally appeared on GQ. The Korean-American director Andrew Ahn, 39, broke through in 2016 with his debut feature Spa Night, a slow, sexy, beautifully observed film about the coming of age—and sexual awakening—of a closeted Korean-American teenager who works at an all-male spa in L.A.'s Koreatown. The film won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards—but even then, Ahn's path forward seemed murky.
Queer Asian Rom-Coms Are Back in Cinemas. They Took A Long Road to Get There

2 months ago | gq.com | Raymond Ang

The Korean-American director Andrew Ahn, 39, broke through in 2016 with his debut feature Spa Night, a slow, sexy, beautifully observed film about the coming of age—and sexual awakening—of a closeted Korean-American teenager who works at an all-male spa in L.A.'s Koreatown. The film won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards—but even then, Ahn's path forward seemed murky. “I didn't think that I could make a film career of queer and Asian work,” Ahn says.
Brandon Flynn on Bunking with Parker Posey, Cooking For Edie Falco, and Getting Vomited On by Brian Cox

Mar 14, 2025 | gq.com | Raymond Ang

Brandon Flynn still has Marlon Brando on his mind. The 31-year-old actor, who broke out at the end of the 2010s in 13 Reasons Why, recently wrapped an Off-Broadway run playing the legendary actor in Kowalski—Gregg Ostrin’s entertaining, only somewhat-factual play about Brando’s first meeting with the playwright Tennessee Williams—and it’s clear he’s still coming off the high of his well-received take on the acting titan.