Gallery: 25 Years of OUT Magazine

For 25 years, OUT has celebrated queer culture. To mark our silver jubilee, we look back at some of the biggest, brightest moments of the past 9,131 days.

Illustration: Thomas Allen

Read | 1992: The Final Episode of The Golden Girls Airs

Courtesy of Samuel Hatmaker

Read | 1992: The Year Four Landmarks Brought Gay Life to the Big Screen

Read | 1993: Broadway's Dignified Kiss of Death

Photography: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders for OUT

Read | 1994: What Would Enrique 'Rickie' Vasquez Do?

Read | 1994: Bill T. Jones' Still/Here Turns AIDS Into Art

Courtesy of Joanne Savio

Read | 1995: New Queer Cinema Breaks Through, Almodóvar Storms Hollywood

Read | 1996: Rent, By the Numbers

Read | 1997: Ellen DeGeneres Comes Out

Read | 1998: Will & Grace Premieres

Courtesy of NBC

Read | 1999: Queer Designers Come to Redefine (and Sex Up) Luxury

Courtesy of MCV

Read | 2000: Queer as Folk Hits the U.S.

Courtesy of Everett Collection

Read | 2001: Buffy’s Lesbian Kiss

Courtesy of Everett Collection

Read | 2002: Deconstructing Electroclash, the Pro-Queer Musical Phenomenon

Photography: Roe Ethridge

Read | 2003: The Brief Reign of the Metrosexual

Read | 2003: Catching Up With Carson Kressley

Courtesy of Rainer Hosch

Read | 2004: Queer Fiction Goes Mainstream

Courtesy of Gavin Bond (Hollinghurst)

Read | 2004: Exit Sex and the City (and One Famous Cocktail)

Read | 2005: Why The Comeback Is Michael Patrick King’s True Triumph

Read | 2005: Brokeback Mountain Hits Theaters, Then Crashes at the Oscars

Read | 2006: The Rise (and Eventual Fall) of Gawker

Courtesy of AP

Read | 2007: Albus Dumbledore Comes Out

Courtesy of Wikipedia

Read | 2008: Rachel Maddow Becomes First Queer Woman to Host Prime-Time News

Courtesy of Chris Pizzello/AP

Read | 2009: Oscars Got Milk

Courtesy of Dustin Lance Black

Read | 2010: 'It Gets Better' Founder Dan Savage Reflects on The Groundbreaking Youth Project

Read | 2011: Born This Way & 24 Other Essential Queer Anthems

Read | 2012: Frank Ocean Comes Out

Read | 2013: Dreaming of a Gay Superman

Photography: Richard Phibbs for OUT

Read | 2014: A Turning Point for the Trans Community

Courtesy of Emily Shur

Read | 2015: Rosie O'Donnell Leaves The View (Again)

Courtesy of Shutterstock

Read | 2016: Obama in OUT

Photography: Ryan Pfluger

Read | 2017: RuPaul Is Everything: The Rise & Reign of America's First Drag Superstar

Photography: Mathu Andersen