The time is upon us once again for the second time: Out magazine's annual Power Issue. While we didn't make the cut of the 50 most powerful homos, funny lesbian Ellen DeGeneres did - and, in fact, takes the cake, beating out the likes of Joe Solmonese, editor Adam Moss and fallen queen of the lesbians, Rosie O'Donnell.

Also in this issue, Michael Musto offers a follow-up to last year's The Glass Closet, which called out people like Jodie Foster and Anderson Cooper for not coming out. This year's essay, Shattered Glass, examines the parameters of coming out. Sure, Jodie Foster intimated at her lesbianic ways, but does it matter if she's not willing to talk to the fag rags.

It's the eternal question: If a gay comes out, but doesn't follow up, does anything change?

The wait is over, readers! We're sure you've all been itching to see Michael Musto doing Lindsay Lohan doing Marilyn Monroe. Well, here are the shot, courtesy the Village Voice.

Hold onto your hats, boys!

Village Voice gossip monger Michael Musto will soon appear nude on the paper's cover.

[Musto will spoof] the Bert Stern shots for New York magazine of Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe. Musto - who is both hairier and more modest than Lohan - posed in a blond wig, biting at a pink scarf, for photographer Howard Huang. Musto notes, "Lindsay did 250 crunches the night before her shooting. Well, I did 250 Nestle's Crunches."

Bravo, Musto, on your commitment to the cause, whatever that may be…

Alright, last SNL related post, we promise. Did anyone else notice that host Ellen Page's final skit hinted at her lesbianism?

Yeah, yeah, it's all fun and games, but quite queer timing considering last week's the Michael Musto stink.

And, also, the end's disgustingly sweet. Watch it - or else…

Ellen Page's lesbian publicist ain't feeling the gay speculation. Kelly Bush called journo Michael Musto this week to gripe about his tongue-wagging item. Musto relays the conversation:

My item had been picked up on Defamer, Bush said, and she wanted me to know that it was SHE who was with Page at the Oscars (though I had been sardonically wondering if it was a mother/girlfriend/whatever).

[Bush] named a couple of other starlets who also had reps with them at the awards and said it's by no means an unusual practice. (Now I'll have to wonder if THEY'RE gay too.) "I don't know why people are so mean," Bush whinnied in a wounded voice. "It's not mean to wonder if someone's gay," I shrieked, outraged. "But to call her an 'Oscar loser'?" she moaned.

Musto's contrite about the remark, but still wonders whether Page likes poontang.

The presidential race claims another victim…

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Book parties aren't known to be ragers and, sadly, Lance Bass' was no exception.

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AfterElton editor Michael Jensen and boyfriend author Brent Hartinger cruised through the gay jungle to investigate the evil bitch gay queen. This here's the video of their harrowing journey.

And, no, we don't know if the boys were on acid when they made this. We have our suspicions.

Nightlife's not dying. It's just taking a new form. That's Out magazine's thesis for their October issue.

As part of their coverage, the monthly probes actor John Barrowman's kink filled imagination:

I have a fetish for leather that I've never lived out. I would like to be blindfolded and guided in a room, with everyone else in chaps, in harnesses and slings, and just – […] I'm a control freak. So I'd be taken out of my control zone.

While that's all well and good, we're much more interested in another one of their investigations: the waning, aging state of the circuit party. And the young bucks who are taking its place…

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Lance Bass may be nursing a broken heart this morning. We hear that the boy bander turned Broadway star called it quits with his renaissance man boyfriend, Pedro Andrade.

Michael Musto reports:

I just learned something far more devastating than the fact that nightlife has died again. Lance Bass has broken up with Brazilian hottie Pedro Andrade! Ain't no lie, Pedro, bye bye bye.

And we thought it was going to last forever…

Michael Musto's Village Voice column reads like a eulogy this week as the gossipy gay mourns the loss of Gayville's greatest heroes: bottoms.

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We've had a somewhat unsettling crush on David Hyde Pierce for decades, so we're relieved that the actor has finally come clean about his dick loving ways. Pierce, who you may recognize from his work on the long-running sitcom, Frasier, has never made any secret of his sexuality, but he's also never come forward to discuss it - a guilty silence that led Michael Musto to include Pierce in his infamous "Glass Closet" piece for Out.

Unlike some of the more recent celebrity outings (TR Knight, Lance Bass and Neil Patrick Harris), Pierce did not send out a press release. Nor did he make any personal statement. In fact, according to AfterElton, the outing came in the form of a routine Associated Press-provided description of Pierce's ever-successful career (he's currently appearing :

[Pierce] worked at Playwrights Horizons, the Public Theater, Shakespeare in the Park and a lot of regional theaters such as the Guthrie in Minneapolis, Chicago's Goodman and Long Wharf in New Haven, Conn. Pierce got to Los Angeles in the early 1990s when his partner, actor-writer-producer Brian Hargrove, wanted to write for television.

Not a smoking gay gun, so AE did a little digging (read: called Pierce's publicist) and received the confirmation that, yes, Pierce digs dude. Or, one dude: the aforementioned Hargrove.

Congrats on your sort of coming out, David Hyde Pierce! We're just sorry it took so long. And that the AP did it for you…

It's Friday, reader. You know what that means - it's Queerty ReBUTTal time! Yay!

You guys did super with the comments. Really. Just super - lisp and all. While we have plenty of thoughts on your thoughts on our thoughts, we're switching it up these week. As you're well aware, we've just kicked off The Style Issue.

Before things go too far, however, we'd like to have a brief look back on some of our other issues and some of the bits that didn't make it. Take a look at some unpublished excerpts, after the jump.

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