You call that gay?

For the top spot, our money was on anything by Bronski Beat or "Judy at Carnegie Hall," but Out magazine has its own interesting list of what it's calling the "100 greatest, gayest albums (of all time)." David Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" came in at No. 1. (Personally, I would have picked k.d. lang's "Ingénue"; instead it placed No. 25.)

The magazine devised the list from a panel of 100 celebrity judges (Rufus Wainwright, Cyndi Lauper, Boy George) who submitted their own roundup of 10 albums. Collectively, they chose an interesting assortment, from expected to surprising: Sade's "Lovers Rock" (#93), Bette Midler's "The Divine Miss M" (#83), "Rent" Broadway cast recording (#70), The Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs" (#47), Lou Reed's "Transformer" (#17), The Smiths' "The Queen Is Dead" (#6), and a lot of Pet Shop Boys and Madonna.

You can view the entire list in two installments: 1-50 here, and 51-100 here. As a special promotion, Out is enlisting readers to submit their own choices by Dec. 25. Five random winners will be chosen and awarded the magazine's top 20 albums.

(And for the record, my esteemed colleague Sarah Rodman claims Out's list has no credibility whatsoever without any Barbra Streisand represented. "Not even the 'Funny Girl' soundtrack?," she protested.)