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
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
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