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Facebook investor Peter Thiel No. 10 in Out's list of powerful gays

Peter Thiel, the famed venture capitalist who cofounded PayPal and funded Facebook, has not spoken about his private life since Valleywag broke the curious silence about the gay entrepreneur's sexuality in December. (He hadn't really discussed it before then, either.) But it has again become the topic of conversation. Out has put him in tenth place on its Power 50 list of prominent gays and lesbians. The magazine praises him for his multibillion-dollar hedge fund (Out says it's worth $3 billion, but we've heard $5 billion) as well as his $1 billion stake in Facebook and his funding of the Methuselah Foundation, an anti-aging research group. Knowing Peter, we suspect that none of this bothers him particularly — except for the fact that he wasn't No. 1.

8:40 PM on Mon May 12 2008
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Ted Dziuba at 08:56 PM on 05/12/08
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Ellen DeGeneres as #1? Please, she's like the Honda Civic of gays.

Owen, you should be on this list. You got robbed.
BartKela at 08:59 PM on 05/12/08
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No, no, Tom Cruise should be #1.
Mr. E. at 09:14 PM on 05/12/08
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I see Denton made the list at #22.
ThatKid at 10:57 PM on 05/12/08
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Anderson Cooper is gay?!?
cyc at 01:20 AM on 05/13/08
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@ThatKid: *facepalm*
klugman at 05:22 AM on 05/13/08
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tg;dr
Fanning at 06:05 AM on 05/13/08
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Barry Diller is not in the top 50?
sample032 at 08:03 AM on 05/13/08
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@Mr. E.: But Perez Hilton beat him at #16. I call bullshit on this list.
Goose Spruce at 08:10 AM on 05/13/08
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I don't get it, where is Larry and Sergey?
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And awww, dude likes purple orchids. Cute.
Dweezil at 08:58 AM on 05/13/08
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Jodie Foster is gay?!?
SFJoe at 09:47 AM on 05/13/08
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I wonder where he ranks among radical right-wing nutjobs?