Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Top Bottom Gays: A Response to Out's Power 50

The gay internets are buzzing today about the cover of the new Out magazine featuring the "Power 50" list of Gay Men and Women and a cover story called "The Glass Closet" featuring cover subjects Jodie Foster and Anderson Cooper. You can read the top 50 names. The list includes people I have never heard of, people who aren't publicly out of the closet, and people who I would never have put on a list ever...except maybe one list...

Where's the bottom of this list of gays? Where are the "gays" that don't deserve to be anywhere near the top of a power list? In coming up with a few names, I kept thinking of people that actually made the Power 50 in Out, so I haven't included them here, but here are some people that could certainly do a lot better using their gay (or gay-like) power to do good instead of evil.


Nick'd Top 2 Bottom Gays are tied for worst bad gay:
Ted Haggard - bad reverend
Mark Foley - bad politician


Other names that came up in the bottom brainstorm I had with Bryan include Richard Hatch - bad tax evasion, Jim McGreevey - bad shady, flip-flopper, Sean Hayes - bad gay but plays good one in TV reruns, and Clay Aiken - um, just bad. I was originally going to have a Top 10 Bottom Gays list, but I couldn't even add other people to my Top 2 Bottoms, Ted and Mark, they stuck out as so blatantly being in a despicable, self-hating league of their own.

Am I missing anyone?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

just out of curiosity, do you think john travolta is gay?