You've certainly added a heaping ton of misery to my list! Remind not to try this again.
I was deliberately trying to keep the list short by limiting the scope to people who I've observed to be active here recently just to make things manageable for myself and to reward recent behavior. I wasn't trying to make a comprehensive list of all the gifters throughout history because that would quickly get out of hand, so I set the relatively easy-to-verify "July" criterion as a filter.
The whole idea was flawed from the start. By creating an inclusion list, I'm implying exclusion and people will wonder why person X or Y isn't on the list. Creating a list of names, whether it be a whitelist or a blacklist, will lead to situations like this.
I think I'm going to scrap the entire idea and make the GA open to all Well-known Members. It was worth a shot.
I'll do my more selective gifting in private.