Out (magazine)

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]

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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]

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