Out has named Nate Silver its Person of the Year, and the resulting profile by editor Aaron Hicklin is an endearing portrait of a dude who is doing well at life by being so right all the time. There's great stuff about the making of the man and his dealings with those who try to undo him. He says flattering things…

Here's Anderson Cooper's boyfriend Benjamin Maisani, making out with someone who is not Anderson Cooper in a New York City park. Wait: Who? What? Where? When? Why? Allow us to answer your pressing questions.

Everyone knows that Anderson Cooper is gay. The moments after the CNN anchor officially came out of the closet this morning were like an "over-it" contest on Twitter — a chance to see who could be the least surprised by the news.

Britney Spears posed for Out magazine and did a Q&A by email. She hate flying, loves Sarah Jessica Parker's shoes, and thinks "everyone should be equal."

Last week we told you that Regent/ Here Media, publisher of Out, The Advocate, and other gay titles, was ripping off freelancers. Oh, the tips that poured in! They are really deadbeats, apparently. New scathing complaints against the company, below.

Setting an example for children of royalty, everywhere, Megan McCain wants people to know that the help should stick to being the help after explaining what depths Joe The Plumber should intellectually excavate next. Hint: It's near his plumber's crack.

A new kingpin of gay content has just come out to Wall Street: Here Media, which rules queer pay-TV, film, magazines, books, and websites. But has anyone stopped to ask if we need it?

Peter Thiel, the famed venture capitalist who cofounded PayPal and funded Facebook, has not spoken about his private life since Valleywag broke the curious silence about the gay entrepreneur's sexuality in December. (He hadn't really discussed it before then, either.) But it has again become the topic of…

Bill Gates's money hasn't been enough to staunch the bleeding at PlanetOut. The San Francisco-based gay-media company is finalizing a deal to sell its magazine and book publishing business to the Here Network, a gay and lesbian video-on-demand service. The company publishes leading gay-interest mags The Advocate and …

PlanetOut Inc. used to have a monopoly on Serious Gay Media—they published Out and The Advocate. But they went into tremendous debt and sold their entire magazine and book publishing business to Regent Releasing (owner of Here!) for $6 million. Our favorite theory (because we know nothing of the workings of the gay…

The boys of Gossip Girl are on the cover of this month's Out magazine. Makes sense to us! Fashion, intrigue, perfectly coiffed hair, prep school uniforms, and New York City. What could be gayer than that? As one of the actors on the show describes it, it's "high-camp." In the article, Bill Keith writes: "Gossip Girl…

Since July, we've been intermittently following the occasionally funny-ish but more often just weird adventures of Not Chosen Just Posin', a Catholic guy who "didn't mean to take a job with a Jewish magazine." He blogs about his wacky hijinx like not knowing who Queen Esther is and not knowing what a 'bris' is. Har…

For their October issue, Out interviews adorable Gay-of-all-trades and striped-shirt aficionado John Cameron Mitchell on the matter of his new film, Shortbus,which features explicit sex scenes but is not, mind you, hardcore porn. So how to go about shooting this brave new art?

Though one might question whether a man who was recently outperformed by a group of mentally retarded actors will be good for Chelsea newsstand sales, Johnny Knoxville graces the cover of the new Out (the first issue under new EIC Aaron Hicklin). Knoxville, apparently eager to prove his pink chops, made a play for…

New Out editor Aaron Hicklin has a mantra for the magazine: "Let's be Bowie gay, not Cher gay."