The "Gossip Girl" guys come Out!

...they're just on a magazine cover. You didn't think I meant actually coming out did ya? This dashing trio of Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, and Ed Westwick grace Out Magazine's fashion issue and in an accompanying article, features editor Bill Keith goes in search of the elusive explanation for how this show -- from OC creator Josh Schwartz -- became such a camp gay classic-in-the-making.

He writes:

The thought of returning to high school is a harrowing one for most gay men, but being able to look at adolescence through a lens that idealizes everyone as insanely wealthy, impossibly gorgeous, and improbably well-spoken is like porn. And don't worry -- they're all legal. Barely....

It's like Sex and the City without all the hand-wringing over infertility, breast cancer, and other trappings of female aging. In fact, Gossip Girl owes far more to Sex and the City and even Dynasty than teen dramas like Beverly Hills, 90210 and The O.C..

To see the entire article, go to Out.com!