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OUT Reveals 20th Anniversary OUT100 Covers

OUT Magazine’s annual OUT100 Issue celebrates “the year’s most entertaining, heroic, and compelling people, from all walks of life—including professional athletes, trans pioneers, actors, activists, designers, journalists, emerging musicians, artists, and dancers.”

2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the OUT100 with this year’s with the theme, “On the Shoulders of Giants.”

As in other years, there are multiple covers for the issue. This year OUT features fab four Ellen Page, Zachary Quinto, Sam Smith and Samira Wiley.

You can check out the OUT100 here.

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Music: Sam Smith “I’m Not The Only One”

From out singer/songwriter Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour CD.

The video for this slow-burn, revenge ballad features Glee star Dianna Agron as a housewife onto her husband’s (played by Chris Messina) two-timing ways.

What follows are Agron’s backyard tears, liquor store run and finally burning the adulterous hubby’s suits – all while he’s traipsing with his girlfriend on the side in some dive hotel.

Nothing all that new, but paired with Smith’s powerful vocals, it just seems right.

I will say, though, that Smith could use some media training when it comes to promoting his music.

Take, for example, this line from an interview about his new album:

I’ve tried to be clever with this album, because it’s also important to me that my music reaches everybody. I’ve made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody – whether it’s a guy, a female or a goat – and everybody can relate to that.”

Really? A goat?

The gay guy has to mention relating to farm animals…?

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Out singer Sam Smith talks on his recent success, coming out, World Cup and one night stands

Out singer Sam Smith, whose new album In The Lonely Hour is breaking records day by day, stopped by Fresh 102.7 to talk about a multitude of things since his star began to rise so meteorically.

At one point, the hosts asked him about his thoughts on his recent success, being gay and what advice he’d give to others on the issue of coming out:

“Just be yourself and don’t make [your sexuality] an issue. If other’s around you are making an issue, I understand. Fight for your rights, of course. But, also. Let’s make it a normality. To make it equal we kind of need to act equal if you know what I mean…The world is getting better in some places. It’s getting worse in some places, but everyone needs to just focus on themselves as individuals and do what makes them happy. And be brave. Listen to my record, it will help (laughs).”

Watch the interview below where all sorts of things creep into the chat like Speedos, thrift shop smells and the benefits of high hair.