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
And as someone else said, not all interior decorators are gay. Just the good ones!
Blasphemer!
Yes under the Taliban, even male birds flying over Kandahar kept one wing covering their butts!
that’s funny.
They also left off John Travolta and Tom Cruise.
Soooooooo, you gay? (joke!)
Good point. OTOH, being NY liberals, and give that she lives west of the Hudson, maybe they never heard of her?
Where about Jeffrey Dahmer and John Gacey?
Right klik on the graphic, select properties and it will show you the address. Copy it to your clipboard or save it in your bookmarks...........
Do you have the list handy? Clearly, anytime young boys go missing in a community you best look to the “gay” community for the pervertrator.
What is that they are holding up to their chin?
Kinda like Anne Heche pretending to be a lesbo with Ellen Degeneres in order to advance her career?
How many on the list have venereal disease and how many others have they infected? What threat are they to public health? Does anybody care if they are spreading lethal VD and what is the cost to health care?
Aw man, Jodie Foster a lesbian? That just can’t be!
And John Hinckley, Jr. shot a president over a lesbo??? He was crazy wasn’t he?
I’m thinking it’s James B. Stewart who writes for the Wall St. Journal and is Editor of Smart Money magazine.
He’s an excellent financial columnist, IMHO. I’ve never seen any social advocacy in his writings.
Is fascinating that a transvestite porn producer (#36 -- Chi Chi LaRue) would be ranked ahead of an Academy Award Winner (Jodie Foster).
Maybe it's not so unusual for people who define themselves by their sexual practice to elevate porn over class.
I think it means when Rosie goes shopping for lifestyle toys, she tells the clerk, “SUPERSIZE ME!”.
I assure you, mid-forties is not too old to be a sex symbol.
They are holding up masks on sticks. I had to look twice too...
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