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- THE WEEK, Page 33SOCIETYOut Is Out
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- A new, more mature magazine for gays and lesbians makes its
- debut
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- Not everyone's idea of gay liberation is a magazine modishly
- modeled on Vogue or GQ, albeit with same-sex couples parading
- fashions and lesbians fantasizing about their ideal spa. But
- those willing to set aside political correctness for gossipy
- profiles, moody travel pieces and smart reviews of gay-tinged
- pop culture -- along with pieces about abortion, aids and
- activism -- can now look forward to the quarterly publication
- of Out.
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- Gay publications used to be strident political journals,
- amateurish local newspapers or skin magazines. But AIDS and the
- conservative backlash seem to have matured the community,
- ripening the Advocate into a newsmagazine and evoking such other
- debuts as QW and Genre. Of these, the glossy, full-color Out is
- the most professional looking, drawing contributors from the Los
- Angeles Times, the late Connoisseur and Ms., as well as
- mainstream advertising from Benetton, Absolut vodka, Geffen
- records and Viking Penguin press. Says editor Michael Goff:
- "We're called Out because coming out is the one thing all gays
- and lesbians have in common." The problem: it may be the only
- thing they have in common. Out must span the chasm of gender,
- traditionally even wider in gay media than straight, if it is
- to survive.
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