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      <image:title>Out Cover Stories - Filthy Gorgeous, Apr. 2018</image:title>
      <image:caption>What is New York if not a city of night, as John Rechy titled his classic 1963 novel chronicling Times Square’s underground world of hustlers and social outlaws? The city’s reputation is built on its dynamic nightlife—particularly a dynamic queer nightlife, embodied by a community of drag queens, go-go boys, bartenders, promoters, and so-called “personalities” that have sung the siren’s call to many a small-town gay from around the country, and the globe. Read more…</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Out Cover Stories - Filthy Gorgeous, Apr. 2018</image:title>
      <image:caption>What is New York if not a city of night, as John Rechy titled his classic 1963 novel chronicling Times Square’s underground world of hustlers and social outlaws? The city’s reputation is built on its dynamic nightlife—particularly a dynamic queer nightlife, embodied by a community of drag queens, go-go boys, bartenders, promoters, and so-called “personalities” that have sung the siren’s call to many a small-town gay from around the country, and the globe. Read more…</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Out Cover Stories - The Queer Quibble, April 2018</image:title>
      <image:caption>My friend and his boyfriend had just moved in together and were hosting their first Oscars party. The annual ceremony is always an occasion for lively shade, but this year was different. Instead of being surrounded by my old stalwart group of gays, there were some new faces to go with this new apartment. When Timothée Chalamet, the young breakout star from Call Me by Your Name who was up for Best Actor, walked the red carpet in his immaculate white tux, I heard a phlegm of disgust. “Ugh, I hated that movie!” It was something I had expected to hear at some point in the night because the gays are not a monolith, wine was flowing freely, and over the months leading up to the Oscars Call Me by Your Name had been subjected to a number of criticisms from within the queer community. A fervent fan of the movie, I had found most of those criticisms unfair, so in a hushed and chardonnayed stage whisper, I leaned over to a familiar face sitting next to me and said, “The gays can’t like anything.” Read more…</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Out Cover Stories - Love, Death &amp; Versace, Feb. 2018</image:title>
      <image:caption>For months during the filming of American Crime Story, Ricky Martin found himself back in the closet—this time playing Antonio D’Amico, the longtime lover of the late Gianni Versace. In the pilot episode of the FX series, a detective with the Miami Police Department interrogates D’Amico after the designer is murdered. Unsure what D’Amico means when he refers to Versace as his “partner,” he questions the nature of their relationship, invoking the young men D’Amico would procure for him, some of them duly compensated, and asking, “Did he pay you?” Read more…</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Out Cover Stories - OUT100: Lena Waithe, Dec. 2017-Jan. 2018</image:title>
      <image:caption>For the most part, awards don’t mean anything, particularly awards that come with elaborate ceremonies and decades of tradition. Those awards rarely hold significance except for the people who win them—the culmination of a concerted effort around a singular vision, embodied by a glistening gold statuette that will spend the remainder of its days on a shelf somewhere, away from the public eye that afforded it its significance to begin with. Read more…</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Out Cover Stories - RuPaul Is Everything: The Rise &amp; Reign of America's First Drag Superstar, Oct. 2017</image:title>
      <image:caption>The elevator doors open to the fourth floor of World of Wonder studios. I’m half an hour early, but RuPaul is already there, in his plaid coral-and-aqua Mr. Turk suit, engrossed with his iPad. A part of me wants to scurry back into the elevator—the domineering image of Mama Ru from nine seasons of his titular Drag Race writ large on my imagination—but finding the appropriate nerve, I introduce myself, extending a hand in greeting. He shakes it for a second, before letting his shoulders collapse in disappointment. Read more…</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Out Cover Stories - A Moonlight Revolution: The Black Queer Experience Comes of Age in America, Feb. 2017</image:title>
      <image:caption>How many young actors, let alone young black actors, would choose a gay movie as their first real introduction to the world? Regardless of one’s orientation, Hollywood, for all its left-leaning bloviation, is still homophobic — and pretty racist. Once upon a time, not so long ago, playing gay was a shortcut to either obscurity or an Oscar, depending on how well you died at the end of the film. But Moonlight is not just any gay movie. And Trevante Rhodes is not just any young actor. He is a black man in 2017. And he is completely at home in his skin, obsidian dark and carrying the weight of America’s sins; in his sexuality — straight, if it matters, and it somehow always does; and within his body, powerful, gladiatorial, that of a college and lifelong athlete. It was this body — both his comfort in it, and its discomfiting presence — that earned him his breakout role as the adult version of Moonlight’s central character, Chiron. Read more…</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Out Cover Stories - OUT100: Tracey Norman, Dec.-Jan. 2017</image:title>
      <image:caption>Trans women of color don’t often have happy endings. According to the latest numbers from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 72% of the victims of hate-violence homicides are transgender women, 67% of whom are transgender women of color. As one of the most vulnerable groups in America, trans women of color are also more likely to experience police violence and sexual violence, and face higher levels of discrimination in housing, employment, and access to health care. All of this is why Tracey Norman’s story is so remarkable. Read more…</image:caption>
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