Now These Are Gay Icons

The other day I saw Levi Johnston's picture all over the web. [sidenote; the boy does nothing for me] And he was all over TV. I like that he dishes about The Quitter, but I do know that, well, like The Quitter, he is a media whore stroking out fifteen minutes of fame. Otherwise, how do we explain his "dates" with Kathy Griffin or his showing up "out of the blue" with Jon Gosselin on Entertainment Tonight, or his foray into nude pictorials? The boy is looking to scrape together as much loot as he can from his link to The Quitter.

Well, Good for him, I say. But, soon, it'll be Go away, I say.

See, folks are calling him a gay icon because he dropped trou, but kept Little Levi hidden. I have better icons in mind than a high school dropout, known mostly for knocking up a politicians underage daughter. That does not a gay icon make.

So, then, there I was, in the blogosphere, where I came upon a list of Gay Icons. So, lest we forget, these folks are icons:

Top ten male gay icons:
1. Elton John

2. Freddie Mercury

3. Stephen Fry

4. George Michael

5. Oscar Wilde

6. Will Young

7. Alan Carr

8. Paul O'Grady

9. Boy George

10. David Beckham

Top ten female gay icons:
1. Judy Garland

2. Kylie Minogue

3. Madonna

4. Cher

5. Liza Minnelli

6. Marilyn Monroe

7. Shirley Bassey

8. Lily Savage

9. Dusty Springfield

10. Barbra Streisand

No a bad list, i say, though I miss Miss Ross up there, and Allen Carr? Really? But, who are your gay icons? Are they on the list? And what constitutes a gay icon to you? These are some of mine:

Matthew Shepard

Ian McKellen

Judy Garland

The Bettes....Midler and Davis
Rock HudsonDiana Ross

Ellen DeGeneres

Neil Patrick Harris

Dan Choi

Jared Polis

Tammy Baldwin

Cher

Madonna

Rupert Everett

Liza

Elton John

...and every single gay man and woman who lives openly, fearlessly, shamelessly, freely and proudly.

Among others