Posted on 04/04/2007 6:46:07 AM PDT by 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
In any event, what a waste of good womanhood for some lucky guy. (Is that stated well enough? I was thinking of another way to put it.)
Since they’re “outing” Jodie Foster and Anderson Cooper, why didn’t they put Hillary Clinton on the list?
I must be out of touch; I’ve only heard of ten of these people.
“Who are these people? I only recognize a few names.”
Same here. I recognized 4.
Maybe I should read People magazine, Time , Newsweek or some other fishwrapper.
Some did........
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She doesn’t have to speak a sentence at 10 am. All she had to do is hang upside down with her legs spread on national T.V.
Such a disgusting, horrible and frightful “view” shown on daytime tv without a viewer advisory warning parents to shield their children from such a potentially damaging sight (could turn young toddler boys gay right then and there) sparked those threads, It does not make her ‘powerful’. (powerfully revolting, yes)
I heard Suze on the radio a couple of weeks ago saying she had a long-time female “partner” and their net worth was about $25 m.
I didn’t. She has never done much for me. I guess since that Coppertone ad I’ve always thought she was a slut.
She's been 'out' for a long time. More interesting are the names not on the list.
I must be out of touch; I’ve only heard of ten of these people.
Okay.
That puzzled me too. He should have been at the top.
That's easy. Just make a list of the top 50 Imam's. The number 1 newsmaker this year is Al Sader(Mookie) athough Moomound Madjihadi in Iran might take offence to Mookie claiming #1 spot.
Or Ben Doon and Phil McAvity?
Where did you find that? That is great.
I understand the article also takes aim at those who “skirt” around the issue or their sexuality, including Ken Mehlman.
I could care less if they are gay or not. It doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is the media and others constantly trying to force people out of the closet. It’s a very personal decision that people should make in their own time. If they never want to discuss their sexuality in public, more power to them. Let them live their lives.
Of course they leave off Tammy Bruce, probably because she is a conservative and a big supporter of the Global War on Terror.
Bananarama, large men in small shorts. Heh, heh, heh. Yup, I’ll read that article fer shure.
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