‘Out’ Ranks the Top 50 Gays

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[NativeNewYorker]

When New York did a "Gay Life Now" issue in 2001, only seven of the forty prominent New York gays asked to pose for the cover were willing. Those big shots may have been gay, and they may have been out, but it just wouldn't do for them to be gay and out on the cover of a magazine. "There was a time when the closet was a necessary safe haven," our pal Maer Roshan, who edited the issue, wrote in an angry 2,000-word essay. "But now, it exists as an anachronistic monument to shame. It's time for our public figures to stop hiding in there — and for journalists to stop helping them." Six years and a month later, maybe at least that second part has come true. Here's a first glimpse at the cover of Out magazine's "50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America" issue. (Click here for a larger image.) Those are models holding Jodie Foster and Anderson Cooper masks on the cover. Neither, of course, would appear themselves.

1. David Geffen
2. Anderson Cooper
3. Ellen DeGeneres
4. Tim Gill
5. Barney Frank
6. Rosie O’Donnell
7. The New York Times Gay Mafia: Richard Berke, Ben Brantley, Frank Bruni, Stuart Elliott, Adam Nagourney, Stefano Tonchi, and Eric Wilson

8. Marc Jacobs
9. Andrew Tobias
10. Brian Graden
11. Jann Wenner
12. Andrew Sullivan
13. Suze Orman
14. Joe Solmonese
15. Fred Hochberg
16. Christine Quinn

17. Perez Hilton
18. Scott Rudin
19. John Aravosis
20. Sheila Kuehl
21. James B. Stewart
22. Nick Denton
23. Tom Ford
24. Nate Berkus
25. Adam Moss

26. Jim Nelson
27. Lorri L. Jean
28. Adam Rose
29. Annie Leibovitz
30. Simon Halls and Stephen Huvane
31. Bryan Lourd
32. Bryan Singer
33. Jonathan Burnham
34. Brian Swardstrom

35. Robert Greenblatt
36. Chi Chi LaRue
37. Dan Mathews
38. Neil Meron and Craig Zadan
39. Ingrid Sischy
40. Marc Cherry
41. Carolyn Strauss
42. Irshad Manji
43. Jodie Foster

44. Christine Vachon
45. André Leon Talley
46. Hilary Rosen
47. Matthew Marks
48. Benny Medina
49. Mitchell Gold
50. David Kuhn

[4everontheRight]

You mean Chia Chia Rodraqueez?

[latina4dubya]

you didn’t know? she does tend to be private...

[BubbaJunebug]

Yikes!...I know one personally. Mitchell Gold...but then I knew he was anyway...just wouldn’t think he’d be in the top 50, talk about reaching to the bottom of the barrel for a top 50

[bboop]

I am sick of having GAY and MUSLIM/ RELIGION OF PEACE crammed down my throat too. They could just get a LIFE.

[null and void]

Jodie Foster?

Yeah, she's been out for decades. Still smoken' hot, though...

[latina4dubya]

now, i did not know about Suze Orman...

[Sloth]

I’m surprised Ted Faggard didn’t make the list.

[null and void]

You mean that guy shot Reagan for nothing??

Joke's on him...

[JayAr36]

And, this is important . . . .WHY!

[steve-b]

Here’s 50 cents. Call somebody who cares.

[Gorzaloon]

What's really ironic, too, is that, if the word on the street in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban meant anything, the two aren't necessarily incompatible.

Before 9-11, when relationships and dialogue were destroyed, a Lebanese Muslim I worked with told me that it was a standing joke that when birds flew over Kandahar, they did so with one wing covering their tailfeathers.

We did, in a friendly way, discuss Islam and its culture...but that was Before...

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[null and void]

Somewhere, someplace, Richard Simmons is weeping.

He's gay?

[Always Right]

What about Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgeway?

I guess the place I got it from were talking about those who killed males, which in that case it is a bit misleading. Bundy with 30 confessed killing would make the list otherwise.

[null and void]

Somewhere, someplace, Richard Simmons is weeping.

He's gay?

Next you'll be saying Liberace was gay...

[TheEditor]

I thought Suze Orman had simply declared she’d never slept with a man. She didn’t declare herself to be lesbian.

[ReignOfError]

Rosie O’Donnel is “powerfull”? That must mean something else in gay speak.

She can speak one sentence at 10 am and have a dozen FR threads before noon. She's relevant. If you don't think she should be, then take it up with the people who make her relevant.

[misterrob]

Don’t forget Jeff Dahmer who killed 17 and Andrew Cunanan who killed 5 including designer Giani Versace right outside the man’s house.

[Kirkwood]

Elton John, your career is officially over.

[null and void]

I had a crush on Jodie Foster when we were kids...........

Who didn't?