Out (magazine)

Out

Editor	Aaron Hicklin
Categories	gay lifestyle
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	203,000
Publisher	Joe Landry
First issue	1992
Company	Here Media
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	www.out.com
ISSN	1062-7928

Out (ISSN 1062-7928) is a popular gay and lesbian fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine, with the highest circulation of any gay monthly publication in the United States. It carries itself in a similar editorial manner to Details, Esquire, and GQ. Out was published by PlanetOut Inc. until 2008, when it sold LPI Media to Regent Entertainment Media, Inc., a division of the company that owns here!.^[1][2][3]

Background

Out was founded by Michael Goff in 1992 as editor in chief and president. He and first hire, executive editor Sarah Pettit (deceased) together built the largest circulation gay publication ever and for the first time attracted world-class writers (such as Augusten Burroughs and David Sedaris) and contributors and mainstream advertisers to fund it.^{[citation needed]}

A key ingredient in Out's success in attracting high brow advertisers who had never considered targeting the gay market before was the magazine's offering of a safe environment in which no adult material or personal classifieds were published. By removing this significant barrier, advertisers were able to utilize this new national print media vehicle to reach a marginalized audience and effectively showcase their products and services.

The Log Cabin Republicans, an LGBT organization for people in the Republican Party, took issue with a May 2008 article contrasting gay Republicans with gay Democrats,^{[4][dead link]} asserting that the article evidenced an "anti-Republican bias" and complaining that the author of the article, Charles Kaiser, hadn't interviewed any gay Republicans for the story.^[5] In a response posted on Out.com, Kaiser pointed out that in spite of their complaints no one was challenging his assertion that closeted gay Republican Congressmen and Senators have a long history of voting against the interests of gay people.

Some lesbians have criticized Out magazine for primarily focusing on gay men, noting that in 2008 no lesbians were featured on the magazine's front cover, and that only 22% of the persons featured in the 'Out 100' were lesbians.^[6]

Notable contributors

Writers Josh Kilmer-Purcell Dale Peck Dan Savage Nathan Lee T Cooper Mark Simpson Tim Murphy Michael Joseph Gross Jesse Archer Bob Smith[disambiguation needed ] Tom Steele Barry Walters Mario Testino

Photographers Francois Rousseau Roger Erickson Ben Watts Matthias Vriens Cass Bird Patrick McMullen Joe Opedisano Terry Richardson Xevi Muntane Pierre et Gilles Walter Pfeiffer Nicholas Wagner

References

1. ^ "Planetout Inc · 8-K · For 8/13/08". Fran Finnegan & Company. 2008-08-13. http://www.secinfo.com/dsvrp.tEX1.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-03. 
2. ^ Sass, Erik (2008-04-14). "PlanetOut Is Out Of Publishing (And $26 Million)". MediaDailyNews. http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=80435. 
3. ^ Bajko, Matthew (2008-04-10). "Breaking news: PlanetOut to sell off magazines". Bay Area Reporter. http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2894. 
4. ^ Kaiser, Charles (May 2008). "Washington's Gay War". Out magazine. http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=23655. Retrieved 2008-08-02. 
5. ^ ""Out" Magazine Runs Hit Job on Gay Republicans: Article on gay Republicans fails to source even ONE gay Republican!". Log Cabin Republicans. http://www.logcabin.org/logcabin/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=8702116. Retrieved 2008-08-02. 
6. ^ Snarker, Dorothy (2008-11-13). "An open letter to "Out" magazine". AfterEllen.com. Logo Online. http://www.afterellen.com/blog/dorothysnarker/an-open-letter-to-out-magazine. Retrieved 2009-02-03. 

External links

• Official website