Actress Maureen Garrett, who played Holly Lindsey on CBS' "Guiding Light" for 35 years, has publicly come out.

She told Out magazine in a story published Thursday on National Coming Out Day that she had urged the soap opera writers about creating a lesbian relationship for Holly, but they declined. Several years later, the writers finally decided to take up the issue but did not use her character as part of the romance.

"Guiding Light" was terminated in 2009, and Garrett said she left New York to pursue other interests that included sculpting and writing and studying Spanish.

NEW YORK -- The editorial staff of the influential gay lifestyle magazine Out is being laid off with one month's severance as of Friday, Capital has learned.

But according to Out editor-in-chief Aaron Hicklin, it's more complicated than that.

Hicklin said he will hire back an unspecified number of editors on a contract basis into a new company he is founding called Grand Editorial. It will operate the magazine as a contractor for Here Media, a subsidiary of Regent Entertainment Media, which acquired Out in 2008.

NEW YORK -- Cyber-bullying and homophobia dominated the headlines in Sept. 2010 when 18-year-old college student Tyler Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge. A key dimension that was missing in those headlines was any understanding of Tyler beyond his death.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Adam Levine of Maroon 5 is out with a racy video for his hit single “Moves Like Jaggar,” and talks about being straight, his gay younger brother, and why “The Voice” beats “American Idol” in its treatment of LGBT contestants.

Levine is shirtless in the video, which contains a guest appearance by fellow “Voice” coach and judge Christina Aguilera.

The video, which can be seen below, is raising some eyebrows for female nudity and for its dancers wearing body suits that suggest frontal nudity.

Levine talks to Out magazine and denies rumors that he is gay.