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Calvin Klein body Copyrighted material CONTENTS December 2001 nnNTiNiirn on parf a 8 Contributors: laune stone. Ted Gideonse. Rob Barber, and others 1 0 Your Letters: Much ado about Matthew, crystal meth. and staying coupled 1 5 Letter From the Editor Expanding the GLBT rubric cxjtFront 17-20 Film A sexy queer boy explores intergenerational love in a controversial new movie; reviews of The Royal Tenenbaums, Princesa, Eban and Charley, American Adobo, and The Business of Strangers. 22 Books Reviews of Michael Craft, Mark Doty, and Stephen D. Moore; a book that cracks the Hollywood closet 24-30 Music A hot gay rapper with a phat new album takes on the hip-hop estab- lishment—and Eminem; Liza Minnelli and Alan Camming discuss a holiday album benefiting AIDS sufferers and victims of the September ii attacks; reviews of new albums from Kittie. Kiki and Herb, Derrick Carter, and more. 32-36 Art+Design A lesbian artist makes distinctive sculptures of surprising body parts; one of the gay greats at Disneyland presents two new spectacles. 38 People hi tribute to tliose who died on September ii and over the past year. Out recognizes those who made a difference in gay and lesbian lives. ON 1HE COVER: PETER MIGE Ar<D RANDY HARRISON PHOTOGRAFHIED BY CHRIS CHAP»«AN FOR OUT: PHOTO Of FIREFIGHTER TOM RYAN COURTESY OF TOM RYAN' JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL AS HEDWIG BY S. GIRAUtVFINE LINE FEATURES. HEDI SLIMANE FROM NYT. REBECCA WALKER FROM AP/WlOE WORLD PHOTOS; MELISSA ETHERIDGE BY DAN WINTERS. MICHAEL STIPE BY STEPHEN OXENBURY/CORBIS OUTLINE: ANGELINA JOLIE BY VINCE BUCCI/GETTY. IMS WW (FROM TOP): DENNIS GOLONKA FOR OUT, TIE-DYED TANK TOP BY DIESEL. LEATHER CUFF BY JUHA NEWMAN: PHIL WONG. AMBER NOLAND; O DISNEY 2 out DECEMBER 2001 CONTENTS December 2001 Voices 40 Laurie Stone looks at the Taliban's gender-related bioterrorism. 44 Kirk Read offers a small-town gay survival euide. 54 Ricliard Kaye wonders whether Abraham Lincoln was really queer. lallts ahniit Christmas trees with Inhn Waters Features 64-85 Out loo From heroic New York firefighter Tom Ryan to Queer as Folk fun-lovers Randy Harrison and Peter Paige, from Ellen and Melissa to pioneering attorney Mary Bonauto. from the glitziest beauties to tlie grittiest advocates, we give you the greatest gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender success stories of 2001—and an exclusive Queer as Folk preview to boot. 86 Straight Allies Out presents its Heterosexual Heroes: 2001—Steven Spielberg, Javier Bardem, Nicole MiUer, Camryn Manheim, and others. 88 Hall of Shame This year's edition includes not only the Revs. Falwell and Robertson but athletes, singers, and a few pxjliticians as well. Essentials 90 Calendar Le Bal des Boys in Montreal. Divine Design In LA., and more 92 Holiday Gift Guide Choices for the kings and queens in your life 103 The List Celebmies tell us who tops their personal Out 100. 108 Advice by Cynthia O'Neal: Are all gay men sluts? 110 Horoscope by Staria: Tammy Lynn Michaels and other Sagittarians 1 1 2 Scene Photos from Target lor Friends. Gay Day at Disneyland, and more FROM TOF: iLLUSTRAHON BY [»NNY HELLMAN: CHRIS CHAPMAN FOR OUT: ROBIN HOLLAND FOR OUT 4 out DECEMBER 2001 Copyrighted material out Brendan Lemon EDITOR IN CHIEF Bruce Shenitz Craig EdvKards EXECUTIVE EDITOR CREATIVE DIRECTOR Bryan Buss Michael Matson MANAGING EDITOR PHOTOCRAPHT DIRECTOR Jeffrey Epstein Thomas O'Quinn SENIOR EDITOR ART DIRECTOR Ronni Radner Lesley Meyer ASSOCIATE EDITOR PHOTO EDITOR Gregory Wein Christine LaPorte FASHION DIRECTOR ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR Sam Spector Nick Stadler FASHION EDITOR DIGITAL IMAGING TECHNICIAN Trudy Ring CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS COPr CHIEF Matt Albiani Christopher Church Patrik Andersson Mike Crippi Ronald Cadiz T. 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WARNfH MUSIC CONTRIBUTORS KAYE STONE Photographer DENNIS COLONKA, whose work has been Barber lives in the Washington, D.C., area with his wife, Susan, published in Jane and Allure, says Eban and Charley's Giovanni and Manny and Moe, his two ii-year-old canines. Andrade was a wonderful subject. "I bet people will see these pictures and want to use him as a model. He's extremely intelli- NoveUst, critic, performer, and teacher LAURIE STONE resides gent, and I wanted to bring out his sensual side," says the on Manhattan's upper west side, where, she says, "Broadway openly gay, New York-based GolorJca, who took pictures of the flows like Dickens's Thames" and on it "sail people from every adorable Andrade for this month's Out. Golonka has also pho- corner of the planet, wath every shade of skin, flaunting every tographed Thandie Newton, Quentin Crisp, and John Waters. kind of sexuality and blended salad of genders"—a far cry from Afghanistan and its Taliban regime, which Stone wrote about "Well, the beard doesift do much for me, but I find intelligence for this issue of Out. Her work has appeared in Ms., The Village very sexy, so I supjxjse the answer is yes, I think Abe Lincoln Voice, and The Washington Post, among other publications. was sexy," says of>enly gay contributor RICHARD KAYE, who wrote about Lincoln's close fiiendship with merchant Joshua Manhattanite and self-proclaimed "big fag" TED CIDEONSE Sp)eed for this issue. Kaye's work has appeared in The New York interviewed Giovanni Andrade for this month's Out. The Times and The Village Voice. He has two books forthcoming and Cincinnati-bom Harvard grad has written for many publica- lives in Brooklyn, N.Y, with his big dog, Siegfried. tions, including Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and New York. Gideonse, who worked as a research assistant to Harvard pro- ROB BARBER, whose artwork has been featured in Forbes and fessor Marjorie Garber (Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday New York, says he enjoyed the different moods evoked in the Life), opines, "Gio's sexuality doesn't seem that fully formed; rich, vivid illustrations he aeated for the Out loo. "I must say, he's only 22." Gideonse also wrote the controversial "Anne the cheeriness of Ellen DeGeneres has an effect, even while Heche is bisexual and isn't that crazy?" cover story for a 1997 painting her for hours," Barber says. Bom near Chicago, issue of The Advocate. 8 out DECEMBER 2001 YOUR LETTERS IS THERE A CAY GENERATION CAP? Just One in 13,000 Let me make one thing dear Matthew Shepard - does not matter ("Laramie's Legacy," October -» ' 2001) . By your admission there were I own 13 other reported hate crimes committed in 1998, with four of them being related to WHY MATTHEW gays, lesbians, bisexuals, or transgenders. STILL MATTERS Who knows how many were never reported? If Shepard had been overweight or THRH rCARS AHTH MIS 8RUTAI ttliJNC AHTBTS nOM EUON )OHN TO SUKHl MKtO—STAR Of I^t any color other than white or slightly disfigured, no one wotdd have bothered to WW TV MCMC THf MATTHfM SHfAUD S7DW OffiH iNsnRB3 meun > plaster his face all over the media.