MAXIM Philippines shakes up the men’s magazine’s genre next month by coming up with an issue tackling the lives of gays and lesbians in the country.

Mocha, front woman of  “Mocha Girls” and a self-confessed bisexual, dominates the cover flanked by one of her back-up singers, Hershey.

Since joining the magazine as a photo blogger in February, Mocha has provided MAXIM with plenty of monthly sizzle, with pictures of her making out with a series of attractive females.

In the magazine’s most provocative cover shoot ever, Mocha evokes sexual freedom as she is joined by her girl group, which also includes Bez and Grace.

Boy Abunda leads the issue’s centerpiece feature, “Gays’ Night Out At Classmate,” in which Boy and four other prominent gay men hold a roundtable discussion of gay issues inside a VIP room of Classmate, the preeminent gentleman’s club—in the company of sexy GROs (guest relations officers) and a stripper.

Writer and gay activist Danton Remoto, fashion designer Puey Quiñones, Magic 89.9 deejay Mojo Jojo, and magazine editor Carlo Tadiar join Boy, the host of “The Buzz” and “Showbiz News Ngayon,” in this not-so- private conversation about homosexuality in the Philippines.

MAXIM begins the collection of articles on gays and lesbians with a mock cover featuring another controversial celebrity, BeBe Gandanghari (formerly Rustom Padilla). MAXIM addresses the country’s most famous transgendered person in an open letter that is humorous, heartfelt and compassionate.

Other eye-popping pictorials feature World Wrestling Entertainment diva Eve, theater and film actress Angeli Bayani and the amazing tandem of MAXIM babes Tracy Torres and Mellow Johnson.

Other major features in the issue are a nostalgia piece on Bagets, the classic youth movie that marks its 25th anniversary this year, and a pre-fight analysis of the much-anticipated Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton fight.