Out # 198, October 2010

14 CONTRIBUTORS &amp; INFLUENCES<br>
16 LETTERS<br>
18 EDITOR&#39;S LETTER<br>
20 BY THE NUMBERS<br>
<b>FOREGROUND</b><br>
29 BILLY PORTER<br>
With a new role in this fall&#39;s Angels in America revival, the Broadway vet has
finally bagged his dream job.<br>
34 CAN I BE BLUNT?<br>
Kristen Jonnston gets loose-lipped.<br>
36 THE BIG CHILL<br>
West Coast dreamwaver Baths brings the beats and the blues on his ambient new
album, Cerulean.<br>
38 LIFE OF THE PARTY<br>
A celebratory look back at the psychedelic, gender-bending madness of art troupe
assume vivid astro focus<br>
41 MAN BEHIND THE MYTH<br>
Mark Beard has uncovered some of the most skillful, sexually charged male portraits
of the last century. Or has he?<br>
42 HOMO PLUS<br>
Brad Goreski&#39;s L.A. stomping grounds<br>
44 LIVE THE LIFE<br>
Malcom X: well-suited traveler<br>
46 YOU SHOULD KNOW BITTERS<br>
How to mix, make, and serve the ultimate cocktail ingredient<br>
49 KITCHEN 411<br>
Belle jars: the art of pickling<br>
54 GENTLEMANLY PURSUITS<br>
Saddle up.<br>
56 PREP COOL<br>
Michael Bastian breathes sexy new life into a fashion brand classic.<br>
58 WEST SIDE STORY<br>
Exploring the great gay American hinterlands. Plus: four fall hikes<br>
<b>SYMPOSIUM</b><br>
Dispatches from the front lines of contemporary culture<br>
65 LAND&#39;S END<br>
Michael Cunningham on his new novel, By Nightfall, and the home The Hours built<br>
67 FILE UNDER STUD<br>
Samuel Steward: the original sexual renegade<br>
68 THE PHOTOGRAPH<br>
A writer discovers his homophobic father&#39;s one gay exception.<br>
<b>THIS MONTH ON OUT.COM</b><br>
MORE NICKI MINAJ!<br>
Check out behind-the-scenes footage and an exclu&#39;sivevideo interview withNicki
Minaj at our October cover shoot.<br>
I WANT MY OUT TV<br>
Catch video interviews with Swedish pop star Robyn, Maroon 5&#39;s Adam Levine, Keane&#39;s
Tom Chaplin, Sky Ferreira, Baths, and more.<br>
<b>FEATURES</b><br>
70 OUT&#39;S 2010 TASTEMAKERS<br>
A day in the life of io gay visionaries<br>
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDY RYAN<br>
82 DR. PEPPER<br>
For his new men&#39;s fragrance, Bang, Mark Jacobs calls on scent expert Yann Vasnier
to spice things up.<br>
BY JOSHUA DAVID STEIN PHOTOGRAPHY BY ADAM KRAUSE<br>
86 HERB RITTS REMEMBERED<br>
A new book peers into the glamorous, rarefied world of the legendary photographer.<br>
BY RAY ROGERS<br>
90 DARLING NICKI<br>
She&#39;s got a closet full of two-tone wigs, a knack for clever wordplay, and more
alter egos than an entire season of RuPaul&#39;s Drag Race. So who is this Nicki Minaj?
We tap into the strange little world of hip-hop&#39;s next big star.<br>
BY CARYN GANZ PHOTOGRAPHY BY GL WOOD<br>
<b>FASHION</b><br>
96 RIO GRAND<br>
Boys will be boys.<br>
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL ROBERTS<br>
<b>DEPARTMENTS</b><br>
106 SURVEILLANCE<br>
Our guide to the finer things in life: a lamp for bookworms, a charger for tech
geeks, a shredder for neat freaks<br>
111 STORE INFO<br>
112 MODEL CITIZEN<br>
Genaro Perez strikes a pose.