The Powerful 50

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2010
No Powerful Gays in City that Considers Itself Gayest

Out Magazine's annual 'Power 50' list came out, if you will, last week. Her Holiness Ellen DeGeneres rules the gays this year, taking the top spot. Politician Barney Frank, Anderson Cooper, butch on-air personality Rachel Maddow, and American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert round out the top 5.

Other notable homosexuals making the list? The "internet's closet king," Matt Drudge; Gawker's Nick Denton; Andrew Sullivan; some dude involved with the Sex and the City franchise; ACLU's Anthony D. Romer; Marc Jacobs; loads of New York people you've never heard of before; and the sage who advised us to cut up debit/credit cards, Suze Orman.

Notable San Francisco/Bay Area gays making the list? No one. In a city famous for housing LGBT ilk from far and wide, we're surprised to see a glaring lack of SF representation (e.g., Sen. Mark Leno, Supe. Bevan Dufty, John Waters, Juanita More and Heklina) on the list. Which is odd. Or... is it? Are there any queer folk from SF that you think deserve attention on the print publication's fancy-homosexuals list?

Previously: We had this exact same problem back in 2007. [after the jump]

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2007
Local Gays Make Good, But Stay Local

Yesterday afternoon, friendly blogneighbor Cedric wrote in to point out a glaring slight: on Out Magazine's list of 50 important gays, there seem to be zero San Franciscans. What! Zero! Of all the nerve! (At least, we think it's zero ... after the twenties, we're a little foggy on some of those names. Like, Ingrid Sischy? Who?) But how dare they! Of all the oversights! How could they possibly have overlooked such local gay luminaries as ... er ... um ... hmm.

"Are SF days as a gay mecca over? Or is the list biased to LA, DC and NY media types?" Cedric asks. Excellent questions! The answers are no and yes, respectively. Readers, of our colorful local crop of gay icons, who would you have liked to have seen on the list? Who ought we be exporting to the national stage?

There's Peaches, of course; she's seen some fame in Seattle and NYC lately. And Michael Petrelis probably isn't giving up anytime soon. Then there's Gabriel and Listener Mitchell from Calling Long Distance, the ever-vigilant Brock Keeling, and Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, who curates the best midnight movies ever. Carol Migden and Mark Leno both do such good work -- can they be ranked together? We hate to have to choose. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Del and Phyllis, and Officer Jane takes awfully good care of the Castro.

Who else?

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Who else?!
ANDERSON!