Matt Baumgartner, owner of Bombers Burrito Bar, Wolff’s Biergarten and The Olde English Pub & Pantry, has been named to the 40 Under 40 list by the national gay newsmagazine The Advocate. The people on the list, the magazine says, are “budding powerhouses, leaders in media, politics, sports, and science, (who) are facilitating our future … (and are) the architects of the next decade.”

The citation for Baumgartner credits him for a billboard he put up in downtown Albany last year that asked state Sen. Roy McDonald to vote in favor of same-sex marriage. McDonald, of Saratoga, was one of four Republicans to switch sides and vote in favor of the bill last June when it passed the Senate 33-29 and was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Baumgartner tells me: