Nick Denton tapped his microphone between five and eight times to get the attention of the crowd gathered on Gawker Media’s rooftop. “This is pretty good timing,” he said, alluding either to the just-passed rainstorm or the ongoing marriage-equality debate in Albany. Mr. Denton had volunteered use of the Gawker roof for a fundraiser for Read More
Out magazine threw its annual "Out 100" fete at Gotham Hall in midtown on Friday, Nov. 14, an event that felt more intimate than in previous years: fewer high-wattage luminaries and an altogether understated sensibility.
And, indeed, there was some bad mojo in the air. Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that prohibits gay marriage, Read More
Everyone is getting a piece of Rachel Maddow now.
Out Magazine has a small profile of Ms. Maddow (seven sentences!) in its next issue, which is part of the magazine’s annual ‘Out 100′ issue, a "unashamedly subjective list of the gay men and women who moved Read More
It’s quitting time at Blackbook.
On the heels of the major departures of its managing editor and photo director, Blackbook has now lost its publisher, Joe Landry.
Mr. Landry is returning to his old stomping grounds and will become group publisher of both Out magazine and The Advocate, replacing Jay Adams, who was fired Read More
“Any premise that the magazine is in trouble is an incorrect premise,” said Aaron Hicklin, the editor in chief of Out magazine.
And yet one could be forgiven for making it. Back in April, the gay-targeted monthly and its older-sister biweekly, The Advocate, were sold in a veritable fire sale by PlanetOut to Regent Read More
Tonight, Out magazine will honor its 100 most influential people in gay culture with a big bash at Cipriani Wall Street. Kathy Griffin must be on a cruise ship somewhere, so Tori Spelling and Tim Gunn will co-host the camp affair, where the five people on the cover of Out’s Read More
Last night we asked Bill Clinton whether he was ready to become America’s first male First Lady (OK, first gentleman.)
“If the American people are ready to elect [Hillary Clinton], I am,” the 61-year-old Mr. Clinton told The Transom. “I’ll do whatever I’m asked to do. I hope they will, because I think it’ll be Read More
Yesterday, Time‘s blogger Andrew Sullivan announced that the new editor of Out magazine is a heterosexual. “Seriously, I think it’s great that a straight guy is now heading up a gay magazine,” he wrote.
While that idea fits nicely with Mr. Sullivan’s theories on the continued blurring of straight and gay culture and Read More
