Should gay father’s settle down? Homo-journo Jay over at The Sword surely think so, and launched some barbs at Out magazine for this month’s feature on so-called “Disco Daddies,” men who continue gracing circuit parties and the such after having children.

Writes Stabile: Shouldn’t everyone, including gays, have to sacrifice and grow up a bit when they become parents? These new dads “want to have it all,” says Jeffrey Parson, gay dad and psychology professor. “They have… adult responsibilities but they also keep their connections to the community, sometimes in the party scene.” We guess that means we’ll be seeing more dads “having it all” while waiting for STD screenings at the clinic, … Continued…

We dedicate Bob Seger’s classic “Turn The Page” to publisher Joe Landry, who recently left BlackBook to rejoin the team at Out, which happens to be edited by former BlackBook editor Aaron Hicklin.

Notable homosexual, friend of Shirley and Out columnist Josh Kilmer-Purcell released his debut novel today. And, in honor of the title - Candy Everybody Wants - he gathered a motley crew to perform “the first-ever dramatic reading of this very important piece of un-televised television history…”

Said piece goes by the name of Dallasty and includes Charlene Tilton, references many of you probably won’t get and general gay insanity.

It’s a battle of the beautiful titans in the most recent edition of Out.

In celebration of their annual Hot Issue, the editorial team scoured some of New York’s greatest modeling agencies, plucked some pretty men, dressed them in some hot designers and have pitted them against one another.

Are the Select Models tops or do the Ford Models take the cake? That’s for you to decide, as hard as that may be…

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“Welcome to gay Washington in the 21st century, where the gay Democrats are proud and out on the Hill and in the lobbying firms on K Street, while many gay Republicans still cower in the closet until they trip themselves up with off-color instant messages to teenage pages, or conduct unbecoming to a United States senator in an airport bathroom.” [Out]

Media journalist Erik Sass finds PlanetOut’s publishing sale “embarrassing:” “In an embarrassing setback, PlanetOut Inc., a leading LGBTmedia company, is selling its magazine business for a song… Having purchased [Out and The Advocate] and erotic book business of Liberation Publications for $32.1 million in November 2004, on Thursday PlanetOut announced it is selling the magazines to Here Networks, a gay and lesbian-themed TV network, for a paltry $6 million.” [MediaPost]

There’s rumor that Regent Entertainment’s looking to augment the editorial staff of its recent acquisitions, Out and The Advocate. Our source claims several people will get the ax in the next few days, including Out executive editor Matthew Breen. Godspeed… Update: Now we hear Breen’s safe.

There are new details on Regent Entertainment’s bid to buy The Advocate and Out.

San Francisco Business Times informs us that Regent, which owns gay network here!, gave PlanetOut an initial $500,000 to seal the deal, but the final sale will total $6 million in cash - far cheaper than we anticipated.

The deal now gives PlanetOut more time to focus on its websites, which have been underachieving over the past few years: PlanetOut publishes magazines like Out and Advocate, but wants to return its focus to its web sites gay.com and planetout.com, which have been contributing a smaller percentage of its revenue recently.

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The rumors were true. We hear that Regent Entertainment’s bid for PlanetOut’s magazines will be finalized today. The Los Angeles-based company simply couldn’t resist bringing Out and The Advocate into their fold, which includes gay cable network here! We’ll keep you posted as we hear more of the details.

In even more war-ish news, the brutish Peter LaBarbera and his pals at Americans For “Truth” ain’t gay about Out’s list of the universe’s most powerful homos: We are intrigued by the fact that the same movement that once cried out for “privacy” and “to be left alone” feels free to publicly declare people’s homosexuality for them (Anderson Cooper, No. 2, and Jodie Foster, No. 43).

On the other hand, if OUT is right, it might explain Cooper’s bias in his reporting on the homosexual issue: in a recent interview that the CNN host did with pro and con advocates on a ”gay parenting” story, he blatantly favored the “gay” side in … Continued…

It’s been a little over two months since gay media giant PlanetOut put itself on the auction block. So, what’s happening with the company?

First and foremost, book wholesaler Bookazine snatched up a piece of the company’s Publishers Distributing Company, which includes Bruno Gmunder Verlag and Starbooks Press.

Meanwhile, PlanetOut’s magazines, including The Advocate and Out, remain the big mystery, with sources telling us more people were interested in a buy than executives anticipated.

While nothing’s set in stone, there are murmurs that Regent Entertainment, which owns queer cable channel here!, has been circling the gay glossies. One speculator described a sale as “imminent”.

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The homos over at Out unveiled their new website. It’s all shiny and gleaming and gay. [Out]

The kids over at Out get in touch with their trans side this month.

Guest editor T Cooper what seems to be a pretty well-rounded, informative and poppy issue. This display - adorned by David Armstrong shot Tilda Swinton cover - ain’t a sing-song calls for activism, but a closer look at the trans subculture’s ins, outs and in-betweens. (See a larger version of the cover at the end of this post.)

Cooper did well with the magazine’s trans-limited, admittedly “clumsy” staffers. For example, they’ve of ten “essential” trans titles, while Candis Cayne talks about trans life in the spotlight and Cooper himself takes a look at NYC’s trans fags, including a boy whose biological origins got him booted from popular hook-up site, Adam4Adam.
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There are big changes afoot at PlanetOut

Monthly gay glossy Out got a lot of attention when they featured ever-ambiguous singer Mika on their cover last year. The British-bred Lebanese-born stunner said that he refused to categorize his sexuality. So, what’s he have to say now? More of the same, of course…
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