OutSmart celebrates gay love and gay sex. Read fun sexy stories, and also articles that consider the more serious side of love and sexuality. We celebrate our 7th anniversary, and welcome GLBT onto our masthead.

February 2001

FEATURES: LOVE & SEX

• IN CELEBRATION OF KISSING A paean in words and photos...lots of photos. Text by David Parnell
  
• DIAMONDS AND LUST A story of racy rodeo romance...at the top of the Ferris wheel. By Jama Shelton
  
• BLIND DATE WITH A VAMPIRE? My favorite disaster dates. By D.L. Murphy
• SANE SEXUALITY Tired of "hot sex"? A thoughtful approach to this most thoughtless of vital subjects. By Robert Jensen
• RELATIONSHIP AS GROWTH, RELATIONSHIP AS EXPRESSION Better than you even suspected. By Joyce Gayles
• GAY DATING 101 What momma done tole you just doesnít apply. By Daniel Garces

NEWS & COMMENT

• LETTERS
  
• FROM THE EDITOR As we start our eighth year, OutSmart adds B & T to our cover.
  
• IN & OUT NEWS BRIEFS Billy Bean at the HRC gala, Dr. Rod Paige & GLSEN, MTV and Matthew Shepard, happy cows and Lypsinka...and more.
• LEFTOUT Mubarak Dahir Goodbye to Clinton...a mixed farewell.
• OUTRIGHT Dale Carpenter Goodbye to Clinton...and good riddance! conference.
• BUSINESS NEWS
  

OUT & ABOUT

• CELEBRITY GODDESS Blase DiStefano Chatting with Rita Moreno about a lifetimeís worth of outspoken adventures.
• TV John W. Stiles The issues raised by What Makes a Family about gay adoption.
• DANCE Ann Walton Sieber Gay choreographer James Kudelka creates an extravagant Firebird for the Houston Ballet.
• GROOVEOUT Chris Sill Eminemís lyrics donít melt in our mouths.
  
• DINEOUT E.J. Arnell Farrago.
  
• SIGNOUT Lilly Roddy
• CALENDAR Link & Claxton in Houston, Heche on Ally, much more.