Be Still Our Hearts! The September Issue Trailer Finally Leaks!

The trailer for the documentary anticipated by fashionistas everywhere has finally leaked. The September Issue, dubbed by critics as a sort of real-life The Devil Wears Prada, follows Vogue head honcho Anna Wintour and her staff as they create the magazine’s largest issue ever.  A official selection for both Cannes and Sundance, the doc opens in theaters August 28, 2009. Gird your loins!

--GREGORY MILLER

Previously > Year One is no fun

Rhinestones & Rolling Stone, finally (plus a sneak peek from Ferras about Adam's album)

"Wild Idol" Adam Lambert finally gets his cover outing and Rolling Stone remembers its roots: Rock 'n' roll, to be sure. But also, oh so prominently, sex and drugs (he credits a psychedelic experience at Burning Man with inspiring him to do American Idol). It's reassuring, actually, that even the advance leaks from the article are so explicit about, well, everything:

• DUH: "I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear I'm gay. I've been living in Los Angeles for eight years as a gay man. I've been at clubs drunk making out with somebody in the corner." 

• ON MASS APPEAL: "I loved it this season when girls went crazy for me. As far as I'm concerned, it's all hot. Just because I'm not sticking it in there doesn't mean that I don't find it beautiful."

• ON BEING SHACKED UP WITH WINNER KRIS ALLEN: "They put me with the cute guy. Distracting! He's the one guy I found attractive in the whole group on the show: nice, nonchalant, pretty and totally my type — except that he has a wife. I mean he's open-minded and liberal, but he's definitely 100% straight."

• RANDOM OUT OF CONTEXT FABULOUSNESS: "I was like, ‘I’m going to glue rhinestones on my eyelids, bitch!’"

Popeater has all the extra details available so far that other outlets (we're looking at you, USA Today) shy away from, but Rolling Stone's got a video where Lambert shuns the stylist in favor of his own skills -- and gets even more up close and personal with that snake. And just in case anyone is still worried he won't have the full support of the Idol marketing machine behind him, an official release confirming he's been signed should clear that up. Idol creator Simon Fuller's ecstatic quote includes this superlative: “I am thrilled that American Idol was the platform for the world to discover this brilliant young man. He is unique and unforgettable and a certain star of tomorrow.”

We ran into an old friend of Adam's last night at Hollywood's Hotel Cafe. Ferras, an out singer-songwriter whose "Hollywood's Not America" was featured on last season of Idol, is writing a song for Adam's new album. "Hopefully he will open up some doors for others to follow," Ferras told Out. "I think we’re very fortunate to have somebody like Adam who the world has gravitated to because of his sheer talent. But it’s also time. It’s nothing new. It’s just finally happening because of the vehicle of 40 million people watching the show. I do think it says something that he’s getting all this press. And it’s because he’s great, but it’s also because he doesn’t give a fuck. He is who he is, and that’s something that’s very novel – and respectable." (We'll have more with Ferras later this week.)

-- SHANA NAOMI KROCHMAL

Previously > Why Adam Lambert Won't Call Us Back

The gay marriage debate comes to Vermont -- and high school

First we brought you Portia De Rossi's hilarious apology for marrying Ellen DeGeneres, and now for something a little bit more sobering -- and heart wrenching. Below is a clip of a 17-year-old testifying in Vermont in hopes of seeing gay marriage made legal in the state. In the brief seconds during which we can keep our minds from boggling that in 2009 we still aren't afforded the same rights as our straight friends and family, we are equally as astonished (and proud) to see someone so young with such poise and conviction.

Previously > Senator Chuck Schumer endorses gay marriage

Gossip Girls get hot, steamy, and sticky -- with each other!

Blake Lively and Leighton Meester are on the cover of the new Rolling Stone (shot by none other than Terry Richardson who captured SNL funny guy Andy Samberg for Out's March cover). The shoot is more proof that gay really is the new as the girls share an ice cream cone and then start sharing each other.

Previously > James Franco is ridiculous

GLAAD announces the nominees for its 20th Annual Media Awards

Photo: Getty Images

The GLAAD Media Awards nominations are in! Over 185 nominees have just been announced in 41 English and Spanish categories ranging from film and television to music to journalism to advertising -- even comic books! -- all celebrating the best media offerings from 2008.

Fan favorites like Milk, Brothers and Sisters, True Blood, Sam Sparro (above), The L Word, The Magnetic Fields, and (our sister magazine) The Advocate will battle it out to be named the best in their particular category when the ceremonies are held on March 28 in New York, April 18 in L.A., and May 9 in San Francisco (different awards are handed out at each show).

The New York award show will also feature two Special Honorees: Tyra Banks will receive the Excellence in Media Award and Suze Orman will receive the Vito Russo Award. Special Honorees for the L.A. and San Francisco shows will be announced soon.

Check out the following video feature the nominees and head over to the GLAAD site to learn more and find information about purchasing tickets to the events.

Previously > True Blood: Suck it!

Honoring the Heroes Next Door

In the spirit of Mary Griffith -- the small town mother turned gay rights crusader portrayed by Sigourney Weaver in Prayers for Bobby -- The Advocate has launched a new program to honor the unsung heroes of equal rights activism. Everyday Advocates are reader-nominated, and their profiles will be posted on Advocate.com all year long. Each month one submission will be selected to appear in the print edition and become a finalist for “The Everyday Advocate of the Year," to be named in the fall. Nominate someone you know, or just get inspired!

Previously > Things get gay, political, and teary with a new Lifetime TV movie

Our queer year: Remembering April 2008

Our April 2008 issue is probably my personal favorite of the year. Not only did we have newly Oscar-minted Tilda Swinton on the cover, I got to watch the Out staff -- almost all gay men -- tackle the self-imposed task of a "transgender issue." With the guidance of guest editor T Cooper, the editors approached a slate of challenging, thought-provoking articles with a striking combination of curiosity and editorial rigor. They weren't in it to make themselves feel better, but to curate a collection of voices and ideas that were rarely foisted upon Out's audience:

> Candis Cayne's drop-dead gorgeous photo shoot
> "The Trans Fags," T Cooper's profiles of trans guys looking for love (or just sex)
> "Secret New York," a smoky, sultry fashion spread

And then I was walking through an airport and realized that when set side by side with George Clooney and Ryan Seacrest, my passing eye actually thought Tilda was another suit-wearing man.

Over at Popnography, we fell for Santogold, As the World Turns' gay supercouple, Gossip Girl's barely legal ad campaign, and laid out the reasons we were all hot for Rachel Maddow -- our most popular post of the year. Our inner tweenager got googly-eyed for Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers. Plus we talked with hippie hottie Jason Mraz, Greek's Paul James, Anthony Rapp, MTV's Brian Graden, and T-Rok, the onetime star of drag king troupe Backdoor Boys.

Previously > March 2008

Our queer year: Remembering March 2008

March was one of my favorite covers and photo shoots of the year. Every single time I flipped open the magazine and stumbled across this opening spread my breath honestly caught a little. So much staring! So many hot guys squished all together! (We have what we call "the two-inch rule," which holds that anytime two people's faces on a TV show get within two inches, they are obviously either about to kiss or thinking about it. Gossip Girl's guys break that rule at least four or five times a week.) We threw a big party for the issue and mobile-blogged it from the scene (sadly without Kristen Bell doing XOXO voiceovers). And then we sat back and smirked as the show became a bona fide hit and Details copied off our homework. Not to mention the inability of Chace Crawford to full extinguish the flamey rumors following his breakup with Carrie Underwood and alleged cohabitation with JC Chasez.

The best photos in this issue, though, were Danielle Levitt's portraits of kids growing up gay in the South, which were far less glamorous than GG's Upper East Side fiction, and yet a million times more (dare we say it) fierce.

Also on Popnog that month: We fell for Hercules & Love Affair, ABC Family's college series Greek, and Ellen Page -- and mourned the end of The Wire. > We talked to Kylie, Loretta Divine, Heloise & the Savoir Faire, Ted Allen and Robyn, and went behind the scenes to get the real scoop on all the drama at As the World Turns. > And we all expressed our entire lack of shock that Michael Stipe was officially queer.

Previously > February '08