http://observer.com Sat, 25 May 2013 15:15:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/dac0f3722a48a53be75eb06c0c4f5119?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://observer.com http://observer.com/2011/06/new-yorks-new-power-gays-the-top-50/29_tomrielly/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:08:27 -0400 http://observer.com/2011/06/new-yorks-new-power-gays-the-top-50/29_tomrielly/ http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/29_tomrielly2.jpg The community director of the TED Conference—that annual celebration of tech-world titans and the deep thoughts they think—made the Internet safe for gay men with PlanetOut, the online content site that merged with gay.com in 2000, as well as the nonprofit support system Digital Queers. While PlanetOut devolved into “a shadow of its former self,” he said, Mr. Rielly has moved on. “I used to be a professional homosexual,” he told us, “but then I retired, because being an amateur homosexual is much more fun.”

]]> The community director of the TED Conference—that annual celebration of tech-world titans and the deep thoughts they think—made the Internet safe for gay men with PlanetOut, the online content site that merged with gay.com in 2000, as well as the nonprofit support system Digital Queers. While PlanetOut devolved into “a shadow of its former self,” he said, Mr. Rielly has moved on. “I used to be a professional homosexual,” he told us, “but then I retired, because being an amateur homosexual is much more fun.”

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