Out Celebrates 20 Years

Nicholas Hoult

November 2009
Photographed by Tom Ford

The 1st Issue

Ian McKellan

September 1993
Photographed by Jesse Frohman

Rupaul

December/January 1994

Keanu Reeves

July/August 1995

"Free Souls"

Banana Republic ad which ran in the third issue of Out.

MichaelGoff: ACT UP’s messages, among others, were starting to resonate. Clinton had said he’d end the ban on gays serving in the military, and Banana Republic, which was owned by the Gap, started running these ads, one of which featured two guys. It was like the sky was falling. Banana came into our third issue with that campaign, which made all the rest happen. Absolut had been in the gay market for a year, but that wasn’t news. Benetton was considered very weird as an advertiser -- this was at the moment they ran the ad with a guy dying of AIDS and looking like Jesus -- but Banana Republic was blue chip.

Read the full oral history here.

"Skins"

May 2000
Photographed by Terry Tsiolis
Styled by Paul Stura

"Skins"

May 2000
Photographed by Terry Tsiolis
Styled by Paul Stura

"Joshin"

March 2005
Photographed by Stewart Shining

"We did this shoot with Josh Wald, naked with his skateboard—it kind of launched his career."

Greg Louganis

April 1995

Tony Kushner Interviews Liza Minnelli on the 25th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots

July/August 1994

“Rebel Without A Pause: William Burroughs,” by Gary Indiana

February/March 1994

"Physique Pictorial"

February 2009
Photographed by Pierre et Gilles

“X-X-X Marks the Spot” by Samuel R. Delany

December 1996 & January 1997
Photographed by Philip-Lorca diCorcia

The legendary writer wanders through a changing Times Square.

Wilson Cruz

October 1996
Photographed with David Arquette by Andrew Macpherson

“I came out on Christmas Eve to my father, and he threw me out. I lived with kids like this. Some of them aren’t here anymore. Johns was my way of remembering them.”