The gays love themselves some Bjork, which may explain why Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste and Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy decided to cover the singer's track, "Possibly More." This isn't the first time the gay gents have gone after more mainstream singers - they once tackled Mariah Carey's "Fantasy." It's - um, you can judge for yourself.

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Welcome to The Home Issue, reader!

We're going to be spending the next few weeks nestling in for the cold winter months. In addition to busting up inside some local abodes, we'll be spending some time looking at design, art, games, books and ideas to keep you occupied until things start heating up.

Brooklyn-based interior designer Chad McPhail starts things off on a hospitable note: he and his boyfriend, Grizzly Bear guitarist Ed Droste, opened their door to our vagabond editor and photographer. See what transpired, after the jump.

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Out out did itself for this year's Out 100.

Check it…um, out, after the jump…

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Songster Ed Droste lets us in on his teenage fantasies in the fresh issue of Out. The Grizzly Bear guitarist and songwriter joins Pulitzer-nominated Tom Spanbauer, John Waters and Margaret Cho in sharing their long gone covert porn loves. You know covert porn - the scintillating bits that you got off before you knew how to get off. So, what got young Droste hot?

It's sort of embarrassing to admit, given what a cliche the early-'90s gay icon Marky Mark Calvin Klein underwear campaign was, but at the time that image really got my loins all in a tizzy. Back then, a nice torso was all it took, as I didn't have the balls to go out and get some gay porn… [Also] I quite enjoyed an early-'80s shot of Sting on a beach taken by Annie Leibovitz that was in a book of Rolling Stone photography my parents gave me one year. He was a bit hairy and lean back then and did everything Marky Mark did and more. Both images served as rather nice masturbation fodder, but generally speaking they were the mild springboard to my imagination, which is what usually sealed the deal…

We bet some of those imaginings involved Sting teaching Mr. Wahlberg a thing or two. We're also pretty sure some of you shared author Christopher Rice's youthful interest in International Male catalogs. The clothing sucked, but those boys be poppin'!

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• Robbie Williams fancies himself a fucking rocking Christian. We fancy ourselves music critics: your song sucks, Robbie.

• Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher called a special legislative session to stop University of Kentucky and University of Louisville from adopting gay-friendly benefits:

Governor Fletcher wants to change state law to require all state agencies to offer health benefits to employees in ways that “adhere” to the Kentucky Constitution’s definition of marriage. Legislators who, like the governor, have strong support from social conservatives want to ban the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville from offering any assistance to the unmarried partners of university employees. Both institutions moved in the past year to offer such benefits, which faculty leaders say are necessary to recruit top talent, but the benefits have infuriated powerful groups and politicians who identify themselves as pro-family but whose critics see them as anti-gay.

Who needs well-qualified teachers when you can have oppression and discrimination?

• Mr. Rogers got it wrong - you aren't special. In fact, you suck. And don't you forget it.

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