You all really wished Out had put Rachel Maddow on the cover of their Out 100 issue (and in all fairness, so did editor Aaron Hicklin), but you can catch her every night on her MSNBC show.

When Sarah Palin told Greta Van Susteren that the Eisenstadt hoax was started by "some blogger — probably sitting there in their parent's basement wearing their pajamas blogging some kind of gossip or a lie," a lot of people, myself included, took offense.

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There's a gay media/blogger clusterfuck pile-on going on over Out editor Aaron Hicklin's decision to put Katy Perry of "I Kissed a Girl" fame on the cover of his Out 100 list — and we want in. Because you're more interested in bitchy comments than the long-drawn out cold war leading up to them, here's a quick recap of story so far:

Every year, Out makes a list of a hundred or so people who they deem to be the most important gays in the village and make them dress up in silly costumes so as to sell a lot of magazines. [Full Disclosure: Queerty's David Hauslaib appeared on here two Out 100s ago.] This year, Hicklin put Perry on a chair surrounded by honest-to-goodness homos Gus Van Sant, Sam Sparro and Cheyenne Jackson on the cover. The problem is, that strictly speaking, kissing a girl one time and making an incredibly popular song about it, does not get you a gay card, according to Richard Lawson of Gawker. He penned a manifesto in which he says:

Her song "I Kissed a Girl" is a paean to girls getting drunk and sucking mug with other girls while their boyfriends watch. I don't want to sound uppity, but it's kind of a shitty song with a shitty message—that cutesy fake homosexuality is silly fun and good for attracting boys. So it pisses me off a bit that she's on the cover of Out magazine's "Out 100" issue this month. Why is this tittering dykesploitationist worthy of gay hero status?

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The year's drawing to a close, which means it's time for gay glossy Out to celebrate 100 homo movers-and-shakers who made 2008 so damn great!

The journos over there are slowly leaking some of their honorees, including Rachel Maddow, who tops the list. And with good reason - Maddow's catapulted to fame as a pundit over at MSNBC, which in turn gave her a prime time slot. Well done, Maddow.

Activist Evan Wolfson and NPR correspondent Ari Shapiro also made the cut, as did film makers Jarvez Sharma and Tom Kalin. You can see a few more of the honorees over at the mag's website.

Also, the Out team just sent out a press release informing us - and thereby the world - that comedienne Chelsea Handler will be hosting their annual Out 100 gala at Gotham Hall.

[Maddow shot by Roger Erickson, others by Greg Lotus]

British comedy duo Matt Lucas and David Walliams grace the October edition of Out. And they couldn't look better!

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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, baby bouncing on knee.

Maybe we're too old school, and we're not even fans of circuit parties, but one of the pleasures of being gay is that you can still go to Palm Springs with your friends without someone hauling a toddler along.

We're on the same page with one of the condescending Fire Islanders quoted in the article who says, upon seeing someone's 10-year-old in the Pines, "Wouldn't a dog have been easier?"

Agreed…

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…