Out Magazine Names Its Class of 2009

Out Magazine has announced it's Class of 2009, and Adam Lambert is the Breakout Star of the year. We wonder who the other candidates were, since he's really the only openly gay new pop star we can think of.

And he never arrives without controversy. Aaron Hicklin, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, included a letter to Adam in its Out 100 issue claiming that Glambert's managers didn't want him to do the shoot because it was "too gay." We really hope that's not true, but it's sort of sad. And also we're pretty sure that this isn't going to increase the number of people who won't buy his new album because he's gay. Those people probably have never even heard of Out.

At any rate, some of the others to make the list include Wanda Sykes, Nine director Rob Marshall, Cyndi Lauper, and Neil Patrick Harris.