My favorite not-so-guilty pleasure show of the year, hands down, has been The CW's Gossip Girl. It's even done me the honor of getting better with every episode. And though it's stuck in repeats until the writer's strike is officially, really, truly over, we've got a great treat to keep you rolling in all that high school dramalicious soapy delight.
They're on the cover of the March issue of Out! It's our spring fashion issue, so they're all dolled up and doing what boys from rich prep schools apparently do -- hang all over each other and fence. How do we enroll there again?
We also sent features editor Bill Keith in search of the elusive explanation for how this show -- from OC creator Josh Schwartz and based on a fairly uninspiring set of young adult novels -- became such a camp gay classic-in-the-making. His best defense?
The thought of returning to high school is a harrowing one for most gay men, but being able to look at adolescence through a lens that idealizes everyone as insanely wealthy, impossibly gorgeous, and improbably well-spoken is like porn. And don’t worry -- they’re all legal. Barely....
It’s like Sex and the City without all the hand-wringing over infertility, breast cancer, and other trappings of female aging. In fact, Gossip Girl owes far more to Sex and the City and even Dynasty than teen dramas like Beverly Hills, 90210 and The O.C..
Read Bill's full breakdown at Out.com, and enjoy more of Kenneth Cappello's hot shots after the jump...and then don't wander too far away, because next week we'll have the live, exclusive inside scoop from the launch party for the issue, Gossip Girl style.
All photos by Kenneth Cappello. Styling by Gregory Wein.
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