People magazine this week shelled out $300,000 to publish photos of trans man Thomas Beatie and new baby. And it's apparently paid off. The article is, according to People's website, this week's most read story, beating a cover story on Barack Obama's home life.

Questions of Beatie's intent aside, we're pretty impressed that a national magazine's going after this story. And Beatie's hardly the only queer who shows up in the weekly's pages, as a reader points out:

…Please do an amusing biting gay critique of how People has gay stories like EVERY WEEK! Seriously. This week there's something about ugly Lane Bass's HUNK, and Lindsay's dyke moment. I swear that section in the front, Scoop or insider or something either has shirtless guys or stories about gays, or is quoting GLAAD.

We're not surprised, of course. Gays do make the best gossip.

The media circus has begun! Good Morning America today featured some People magazine pictures of trans man Thomas Beatie and his baby girl, Susan Juliette.

Watch the Towleroad-provided video about the baby's birth and other precious details, after the jump. Be sure to note that Beatie didn't have a c-section, as previously reported. This man did it the old fashioned vaginal way, which takes serious balls.

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Thomas Beatie's story continues to pack a punch. In fact today's NY Times piece on the pregnant trans man provides two in one!

First the smaller item: publishing house St. Martin's Press has shelved Beatie's planned memoir. Perhaps because of speculation that Beatie was in it for the money?

Regardless of Beatie's shrinking spotlight and gossip fodder, there's a bigger and far more important cultural narrative at work. And one that's almost as American as apple pie…

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Pregnant trans man Thomas Beatie's within weeks of birthing his first child.

As he and wife Nancy get their nursery together, stock up on diapers and other baby-related goods, big questions remain for the happily queer couple, like how to make sure he - the "gestational carrier" - is not listed as the baby's mother.

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Sean Delonas must have drawer's block.

The NY Post cartoonist has taken two shots at pregnant trans man Thomas Beatie. The first came back in April, when Beatie first burst on the scene. And now, inspired by news of Beatie's forthcoming delivery date, Delonas again turned his attention to the baby daddy.

Too bad Delonas couldn't stretch his imagination, huh?

Thomas Beatie returns to the spotlight. The pregnant trans man, who caused a sensation by appearing on Oprah earlier this year, graces the ever-classy pages of News of The World to show off his increasingly large baby bump.

In addition to revealing the baby's sex - a girl - Beatie suggests he and his wife may keep reproducing after the new child arrives in four weeks:

I feel on top of the world.

I'm 36 weeks now and almost due but I feel fantastic. Every day Nancy and I think about how we just cannot wait to hold our daughter for the first time, to finally get to touch her and see her face.

We have her nursery ready and her diapers are lined up in her bedroom. Everything is ready to go. We have even picked a name which we both love—although we're waiting until she is born before we tell anyone. All the people who really know us and love us, our friends and family, have been incredibly supportive.

So much so we might even have more children. We will just see what the experience is like with our daughter's arrival first and then give it some thought.

We're sure trans activists are luke warm to this news.

File this one under "half-assed."

Fox News' Greg Gutfeld apologized for trashing trans man Thomas Beatie. And when we say "apologize," we mean read outraged readers' letters and defended himself by calling critics "fat faced" and "wusses." He also tells people they need to "grow cajones like Thomas Beatie."

We can't say we're surprised or expected anything less…

Journo Jeff Jacoby doesn't hold pregnant trans man Thomas Beatie in high regard:

Could anything be more incoherent or sad? Gender Identity Disorder is not "incredible," no matter how politically fashionable it has become to claim otherwise. It is not just another hue in the rainbow of diversity. It is a dysfunction. It should be met with sympathy, counseling, and therapy, not with five-page spreads in People and appearances on Oprah.

Headlines notwithstanding, there is no "pregnant man." There is only a confused and unsettled woman, who proclaims that surgery, hormones, and clothing made her a man, and is clinging to that fiction even as the baby growing in her womb announces her womanhood to the world.

We can't say we're surprised by Jacoby's reaction - he once argued that legalizing sodomy would lead to an explosion of incest and bestiality.

And we thought MSNBC's Morning Joe team were offensive! Fox News' Red Eye anchors had plenty of bile to spread about pregnant trans man Thomas Beatie, like referring to him as a "transgender sideshow" and hoping the delivery is "the worst experience in his life." Nice…

We would call GLAAD, but, you know…

NY Post 'toonist Sean Delonas has garnered gay ire for his unflattering portrayal of a super-sized Rosie O'Donnell and a sheep-loving Jim McGreevey, so we're surprising his take on pregnant trans man Thomas Beatie actually isn't offensive.

Old dogs can learn new tricks!

Thomas Beatie caused quite a stir when he penned his Advocate admission: he's a trans man with child. Yesterday's Oprah appearance, however, will only amplify the national spotlight. And, of course, bring out haters like Joe Scarborough and, by the looks of this message board, Oprah's viewers.

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