This year's Out Power List, not to be confused with the magazine's Out 100 issue, documents the top 50 influential gays and lesbians — even if they won't admit to it. (That's why Andy Cooper's No. 3!)

Though the cover is an ad for Brothers & Sisters, stars Matthew Rhys and Dave Annable (who's been known to stay the weekend where we live) are not of the homosexual variety, but show creator Jon Robin Baitz is! Reference this later when you're curious how EIC Aaron Hicklin chooses straights for the mag's cover.

Plenty of media folks make the list, from Gawker's bachelor-no-more Nick Denton and GQ's Jim Nelson (both friends of Hicklin …), to MTV/Logo's Brian Graden, New York's Adam Moss, and the list's No. 12 spot: The New York Times Gay Mafia, which includes Richard Berke, Ben Brantley, Frank Bruni, Stuart Elliot, Patrick Healy, Adam Nagourney, Horacio Silva, Stefano Tonchi, and Eric Wilson. But you probably already knew that from the Facebook group.