Te Blood show nner Alan Ball, CNN anchor Don Lemon, and New York Cy Council speaker Christe Qun have ma this year's list of the most powerful gays the U.S., piled by Out magaze. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who was also number 1 on the list last year durg his time as terim CEO, kept h...
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WHO ARE THE MOST POWERFUL GAYS AMERI?
Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist. The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend. Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn.
The Comics Co Authory banned any suggtns of homosexualy ic books until 1989 Ameri, and wasn't until the 2000s that LGBT characters started to feature more stand-alone stori. Northstar, real name Jean-Pl Bebier, is one of the first openly gay characters Amerin ic book history. The character buted durg the height of the AIDS sre and was explicly stated as gay 1992's Alpha Flight #106.
However, the wrers scrapped that ia and cid to pursue an openly gay relatnship between the characters.