Is People Magazine the new Advocate?

You have to wonder if the folks over at The Advocate might not be a wee bit miffed at their counterparts at People Magazine. After all, it's The Advocate that's supposed to be the "the national gay and lesbian news magazine" yet lately every time someone wants to come out--Lance Bass, T.R. Knight, Neil Patrick Harris--it's People that gets the scoop. People might seem like the obvious choice. They are wildly pro-gay. And it is the celebrity magazine after all, giving actors, musicians, etc. who appear in its pages maximum exposure. While Lance landed on the cover of the magazine, both TR and Harris only issued statements as opposed to making big a deal out of their coming out. So why not go to The Advocate instead? Only T.R. and Neil could answer that, or maybe it's their publicists making that call. It was a little over a year ago that The Advocate landed their last big coming out scoop (at least that I can recollect). That was WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes and that was a big story. At least The Advocate features Jane Lynch--one of the funniest women, straight or gay, in Hollywood--on their November 21st issue. Who knows? Maybe they'll snag the next big coming out story and blow us all away.