Oh,
yes they did! Gay glossy Out
has included CNN personality Anderson Cooper in its fifth annual
Power 50 list.
But he's not the most influential gay
person, the magazine says. That honor goes to acting Apple CEO Tim
Cook.
Out editors call Cook a
“leader-in-waiting” for making sure that Apple “could deliver
as demand rocketed.”
Last year's list topper, talk show host
Ellen DeGeneres, who announced in 1997 she was gay on the cover of
Time and married actress Portia de Rossi (now Portia Lee James
DeGeneres) in 2008, has lost a bit of her cache, falling a rung to
second place.
Cooper, whom editors ranked in the
third spot, and actress Jodie Foster (#47) are staples of the list
despite never having officially declared their sexuality.
Here's the complete list in order of
appearance: Tim Cook, Ellen DeGeneres, Anderson Cooper, Rachel
Maddow, Barney Frank, Shepard Smith, Peter Theil, Barry Diller, Joe
Solmonese, Rich Ross, Tammy Baldwin, David Ciccilline, Jared Polis,
Marc Jacobs, Scott Rudin, Ryan Murphy, Tom Ford, Neil Patrick Harris,
Jann Wenner, Anthony Romero, David Geffen, Perez Hilton, Andrew
Sullivan, Tim Gill, Christine Quinn, Andy Cohen, Suze Orman, Annise
Parker, Bryan Lourd & Kevin Huvane, Chad Griffin, Martha Nelson,
Greg Berlanti, Richard Berke, Jeremy Bernard, Chuck Wolfe, Nick
Denton, Robert Hanson, Mary Kay Henry, Ken Mehlman, Nate Berkus, Matt
Drudge, Dan Savage, Adam Moss, Christine Vachon, Adam Lambert, John
Cooper, Dustin Lance Black, Jodie Foster, Jim Nelson, Evan Wolfson,
Lisa Cholodenko, Ariel Foxman.