50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America

    Perez Hilton beat out Jodie Foster?!

    Someone's smoking crack!



    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. 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


    Source: NYMagazineDailyIntelligencer

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