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[CELEBRITY NEWS] Matt Dallas Comes Out of the Closet
ABC Family actor Matt Dallas decided to make a big announcement for the New Year — he is gay, and he is engaged!
Dallas came out as gay with a simple tweet on Sunday night. The former “Kyle XY” actor revealed he is happily engaged to his boyfriend, musician Blue Hamilton, according to Towleroad.
The 26-year-old Dallas had not publicly come out as gay until Sunday, but there had been speculation about his sexuality for years. In early 2009, he was linked to “Mean Girls” actor Jonathan Bennett, from whom he reportedly split that same year. In September 2009, Dallas and Hamilton were spotted together grabbing food in West Hollywood.
Dallas’ coming-out is in line with what appears to be a trend of celebrities addressing their sexuality in remarkably subtle ways — really, nothing more than “I’ve never been in.”
“White Collar” hunk Matt Bomer came out while accepting an award last February. “Star Trek” actor Zachary Quinto revealed he is gay during a profile with New York Mag in October 2011.
“Gone are the days of the ‘Yep, I’m Gay’ magazine covers,” notes HuffPost Gay Voices Editor-at-Large and SiriusXM host Michelangelo Signorile, “with celebrities making a spectacle of coming out, and thus focusing on the fact that they were in the humiliating and painful gay closet… The closet isn’t going away any time soon. But one step toward dismantling it among public figures it to make it a difficult and embarrassing place to be. From the looks of the latest celebrity self-outings, that’s perhaps starting to take hold.”
EDITORIAL: OUT MAG | Lady Gaga – The Lady Is a Vamp
Lady Gaga: The Lady Is a Vamp
Pop’s newest — and gayest — superstar pulls back the curtain to reveal all is allusion in the art and artifice of fame.
To read our September Lady Gaga cover story, click here.
Photography by Ellen Von Unwerth
Styling by Nicola Formichetti
INTERVIEW: OUT Magazine w/ADELE “She had to have her heart broken twice–to break the charts–”
She had to have her heart broken — twice — to break the charts, but Adele is not about to let fame to go her head. As she begins a U.S. tour, the singer opens up about the heartache behind her music, the danger of fan mail, and why she thinks singer is too big a word for her. [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW ON OUT]
LEAK/SNIPPIT: Britney Spears – Inside Out
Executive producer of “Femme Fatale,” Dr. Luke, released a snippet of a new track called “Inside Out. The lyrics go:
“Come on! Won’t you give me something to remember. Baby shut your mouth and turn it inside [out].”
We’re not sure if this is going to be Britney’s second single from “Femme Fatale”. What ever song it is Dr. Luke says it’s going to be a monster track:
“We’re talking about it now and it is a monster. It really is. I don’t think I’ve been this excited about releasing a Britney single in many, many years. It’s that good… So far, what I’ve heard is just extraordinary. It really is amazing. Her fans will be very happy with it. I’m trying hard to get it out before the album comes out.”
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HOT: Darren Criss on ‘OUT’ Magazine (March Edition)
Darren Criss covers the March 2011 issue of Out magazine!
Here’s what the 24-year-old Glee actor had to share:
On being a straight man playing a gay character: ““I think it’s more empowering to everybody, including myself, if I’m articulate about identifying myself as a straight male playing a gay character. Ultimately, that’s more powerful for both communities.”
On the coolest parts about being on Glee: “The coolest part is not that it’s a hit show – that’s a bonus – and, of course, that I have a job. But the real cool thing is I was inadvertently raised by the gay community.”
Full gallery – After the jump
NEWS: Tom Ford & Richard Buckley Cover Out’s Love Issue
Tom Ford was a shy 25-year-old when he met magazine editor Richard Buckley. It took him the length of an elevator ride to decide he wanted to marry him.
Tom Ford takes to the cover of Out’s February issue, enjoying an intimate kiss with his longtime partner, Richard Buckley. The portrait kicks off an issue dedicated to love, in which a series of striking photographs and stories celebrate gay couples and families, including artist Julie Mehretu and Jessica Rankin, Grizzly Bear musician Ed Droste and Chad McPhail, photographer Catherine Opie and her family of five, and supermodel Tasha Tilberg and Laura Wilson.
In an accompanying first-person story, Ford recalls riding on an elevator with Buckley in 1986, 10 days after first spotting him at a fashion show. “I decided in that elevator ride that I was going to marry him. He ticked every box, and—boom—by the time we got to the floor, I was like, sold. He seemed so together. He was so handsome, he was so connected, he was so grown-up, so he was very intimidating. And he really chased me—not that he had to chase that hard.”
In the same piece Ford also recalls how AIDS overshadowed their burgeoning relationship. “One of the very first people to be diagnosed with what was then called gay cancer, in 1981, was a friend of mine. It completely flipped me out, and from then on, I was extremely safe. It probably saved my life, but it damaged the way I think about sex forever. You just associated sex with death—or at least, I did. If I made a list, I would say that half of our friends from the early ’80s are no longer with us.”
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