You see before you the inaugural installment for The Youth Issue. Pretty exciting, no?

When planning out the issue, we had a bit of struggle deciding how to start it off. Then we realized there's really no better choice than legendary homo-journo, Michael Musto (pictured, circa 1964). He's been snarking it up since before we even knew the meaning, targeting closeted celebrities long before Perez Hilton and generally being fabulous for more years than we can count (but, to be fair, we can't count above seven).

In celebration of the publication of his new retrospective collection, La Dolce Musto, editor Andrew Belonsky and Musto got all cozy like at New York City's B Bar for a little post-work heart-to-heart. If ever there were a conversation to read, this is it - seriously, it's got more delicious bits than an Equinox gym.

Such as? Well, such as Musto's remembrance of ACT UP, a particularly memorable Michael Alig party and his explanation of why Joan Crawford's a total liar.

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There are a whole slew of "private" actors who people just assume might be more interested in people of the same sex than they let on. Sean Hayes, who plays gay on TV and has been plagued by gay rumors, hasn't exactly been willing to talk about his sexuality. Kevin Spacey even more so.

So can anyone blame a British government supported group who teach gay history for including Spacey on a list of famous queers? His name has since been removed and this whole mess has been deemed a "mistake."

Sure we could go down the list of suspicious actions by Spacey but we're better than that.

But we're still keeping him on our own list of "private" leading men who drive mini coopers.

OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT REPORT: KEVIN SPACEY IS GAY [The Mirror]
Lesson Plans Are Gay [Jossip]

In tribute to all the celebrities still in the closet, Queerty has declared November 2, 2005 National Stay In The Closet Day. For everybody out there who hasn’t noticed, the forces of closetedness have been gathering steam in the United States. You can barely blink your eyes without seeing a lesbian Methodist minister getting defrocked in full public view.

Why not encourage the trend? Every time a closeted celebrity redoubles her determination to stay in, untold hundreds of millions of closed minds get their hermetic seals sealed tighter. Queerty doesn’t mind that so awfully, mainly because whether a homosexual is in the closet or not, he or she is equally homosexual. And though a person can not change their sexuality any more than they can change their IQ, we don’t see anybody spearheading an Ex-Smart movement.

So stay in, stay in, wherever you are! Barry Diller, for his part, has yet to appear on the Madison Avenue sidewalk wearing a Diane von Furstenberg dress, but rumors circulate that Madame von F. is whipping up a little something for Kevin Spacey. By staying in the closet, gay celebrities exacerbate the stigma against us and add to what our red state enemies wish were our total invisibility. We extend to them the most lavender of Sieg Heils!