Category talk:Pink List 2010

To be merged into the main article etc.

Note 68 missing.

Top 101
1= (new entry) Gareth Thomas; Rugby player

1= (new entry) Mary Portas; Broadcaster, PR and Queen of Shops

3 (2nd last year) Stephen Fry; Broadcaster and writer

4 (12) Evan Davis; Broadcaster

5 (9) Carol Ann Duffy; Poet Laureate

6 (21) Alan Carr; Comedian

7 (34) Peter Tatchell; Human rights activist

8 (new entry) Michael Salter; Broadcast adviser to PM

9 (20) Sir Nicholas Hytner; Theatre director

10 (58) Sue Perkins; Comedian and writer

11 (new entry) Simon Hughes; Deputy leader, Lib Dems

12 (50) Scott Mills; Radio 1 DJ

13 (42) Christopher Bailey; Chief Creative Officer, Burberry

14 (57) Dominic Cooke; Theatre director

15 (27) Michael Grandage; Theatre director

16 (35) Johann Hari; Journalist

17 (28) John Barrowman; Actor

18 (17) Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Impresario

19 (new entry) James Wharton; Trooper, Household Cavalry

20 (25) Sir Michael Bishop; Businessman

21 (24) Henry Badenhorst; Co-founder of gaydar.co.uk

22 (7) Phyllida Lloyd; Film and theatre director

23 (41) Neil MacGregor; Director, British Museum

24 (53) Lord Alli; TV producer and peer

25 (new entry) Lord Justice Etherton; Judge

26 (53) Sarah Waters; Author

27 (70) Nick Herbert; Minister for Policing

28 (55) Fiona Shaw (actress)

29 (new entry) Alan Davey; Chief exec, Arts Council

30 (46) Margot James; Tory party vice-chair

31 (re-entry) Robert Taylor; CEO of Kleinwort Benson

32 (13) Simon Russell Beale; Actor

33 (15) Dawn Airey; CEO of Five

34 (38) Matt Lucas; Comedian and actor

35 (63) Eileen Gallagher; CEO Shed Productions

36 (32) Simon Amstell; Comedian

37 (new entry) Steve Reed; Leader of Lambeth Council

38 (re-entry) Mark Gatiss; Actor and writer

39 (68) Sir Adrian Fulford; Judge

40 (new entry) Heather Peace; Actor

41 (80) Dame Janet Paraskeva; Civil servant

42 (47) Angela Eagle; Shadow treasury minister

43 (67) Deborah Warner; Director

44 (98) Stephen K Amos; Comedian

45 (new entry) Richard Heaton; Civil servant

46 (48) John Galliano; Fashion designer

47 (51) Derren Brown; Illusionist

48 (31) Stephen Daldry; Theatre and film director

49 (69) Matthew Parris; Times columnist

50 (new entry) Allegra McEvedy; Chef and broadcaster

51 (71) Mandy McBain; Lt-Cmdr, Royal Navy

52 (1) Lord Mandelson; Labour peer

53 (new entry) Sue Sanders; Human rights advocate

54 (74) Tim Hely Hutchinson; CEO Hachette Livre UK

55 (85) Matthew Todd; Editor, Attitude magazine

56 (11) Gok Wan; Broadcaster and designer

57 (new entry) Jean Osborne; Campaigner

58 (new entry) Ravi Mirchandani; Publisher

59 (new entry) Kele Okereke; Musician

60 (86) Philip Hensher; Writer

61 (92) Val McDermid; Crime novelist

62 (new entry) Patrick Strudwick; Journalist

63 (new entry) Clare Dimyon; Activist

64 (14) Russell T Davies; Writer

65 (96) Lord Black; Exec director, Telegraph Group

66 (re-entry) Stella Duffy; Actress, writer, campaigner

67 (new entry) Susie Orbach; Psychoanalyst and writer

69 (95) Sir Howard Hodgkin; Artist

70 (78) Julian Clary; Entertainer

71 (new entry) Alison Goldfrapp; Musician

72 (re-entry) Jackie Kay; Poet and novelist

73 (72) Ray Collins; General secretary, Labour

74 (54) Rabbi Lionel Blue; Author and commentator

75 (89) Sir Nick Partridge; Aids activist

76 (33) Will Young; Musician

77 (37) Alan Duncan; Minister of State, DfID

78 (82) Mark Abrahams; RAF Wing Commander

79 (83) Richard Barnes; Deputy Mayor of London

80 (new entry) Michael Clark; Dancer/choreographer

81 (new entry) Tris Reid-Smith; Editor, Gay Times, and pinkpaper.com

82 (new entry) Andrew Davis; Founder, Von Essen Hotels

83 (new entry) Jane Hill; BBC newsreader

84 (26) Iain Dale; Tory blogger and pundit

85 (90) Paul Burston; Writer and salonista

86 (99) Alice Arnold; Radio 4 announcer

87 (new entry) Russell Tovey; Actor

88 (new entry) Natalie Gamble; Partner, Gamble & Ghevaert

89 (49) Chris Bryant; Shadow foreign minister

90 (new entry) Femi Otitoju; Activist

91 (new entry) Jeffrey John; Dean of St Albans

92 (new entry) Rikki Beadle-Blair; Polymath

93 (new entry) Tim Franks; CEO Pace

94 (new entry) Tim Teeman; Journalist

95 (re-entry) Jonathan Harvey; Playwright, screenwriter

96 (88) Reverend Scott Rennie; Church of Scotland minister

97 (52) Murray Chalmers; Music executive

98 (new entry) Julie Bindel; Journalist and campaigner

99 (new entry) Sheila Shulman; Rabbi

100 (new entry) Joe McElderry; Musician

101 (new entry) David Laws; Former chief secretary to the treasury

Judges at the top of their game
John Amaechi

Clare Balding

Greg Barker

Ben Bradshaw

Jane Czyzselska

Paul Jenkins

Sir Simon Milton

Ben Summerskill

IoS judges
Brian Brady, Whitehall editor; Katy Guest, literary editor; Lisa Markwell, executive editor; Hugh Montgomery, arts & music correspondent; Susannah Frankel, fashion editor of The Independent; Marc Padgett, sports editor; Margareta Pagano, business editor; Matthew Bell, media editor.

Another country:
They're not on the list because they weren't born here – but they deserve a mention

Tyler Brûlé Magazine proprietor

David Collins Designer

Beth Ditto Musician

Tom Ford Designer

Daniel Kramer Theatre director

Graham Norton Presenter

Jake Shears Musician

Wolgang Tillmans Photographer

Colm Tóibín Writer

Sandi Toksvig Comedian

National treasures:
What would we do without them?

Alan Bennett Writer

Maggi Hambling Artist

Simon Callow Actor

Jasper Conran Fashion designer

Sir Ian McKellen Actor

Neil Tennant Musician

Paul O'Grady TV personality

Jeanette Winterson Author

David Hockney Artist

Rupert Everett Actor

Rogues' gallery:
They're out... but they're not in

Peter Ackroyd Novelist and biographer Dazzling and prolific author Ackroyd qualifies for the list on all counts but the one that matters. "Is it some sort of gay thing? ... I'm not even gay," he claimed after hearing that he'd made it on to last year's list. We pray that you won't be weeping into your cornflakes as we bid this impostor adieu.

Lord Browne President of the Royal Academy of Engineering The former BP Chief Exec (until he resigned in 2007 when he was rudely outed) bounced back as the new government's "super non-exec". John Browne has appealed to others to be bold and come out. A bit rich given his official response to the 2006 Pink List's compilers: "I don't know what you are suggesting, but it is not in the least appropriate that his name is associated with that article."

Samantha Fox Model/Singer/TV personality From Page 3 queen to renowned autocue reader and I'm A Celebrity ... survivor, Fox has been a true renaissance lesbian over her three-decade career. But then we heard her recent Greatest Hits CD, and felt that single-handedly killing off the Eighties revival might be considered achievement enough for one year

Jason Gardiner TV Mr Nasty Omitted on the basis that influence should not be confused with a devotion to self-publicity, Dancing on Ice's Mr Nasty has done his best to stir up controversy with quips about Sharron Davies' resemblance to faecal matter. Said show's resemblance to said faecal matter is seemingly a moot point.

Boy George Musician Refused entry to the Celebrity Big Brother house and now to the Pink List as well? We do hate to kick a man when he's down, but it may take more than a Mark Ronson collaboration for this escort-assaulting chameleon to regain his pop crown.

Sir Elton John Musician Oh Elton. Long have we admired you for your tireless dedication to Aids fundraising and consumerist excess, but cadging $1m to play at the wedding of homophobic shock jock Rush Limbaugh? Really? Please atone by forwarding said cheque to The Independent on Sunday, and your position will be restored forthwith.

George Michael Musician Ever since his 1998 outing, we've admired Michael's unapologetic refusal to play by pop's squeaky clean rules. But there's a fine line between liberated hedonist and abject train-wreck, and he may just have crossed that with his recent fourth arrest in five years, for ploughing his car into Snappy Snaps, no less.

Andrew Pierce Journalist Following last year's Jan Moir uproar, the hope was that this recent Daily Mail signing might ruffle some feathers within that bastion of fine feeling. More fools us, of course, as witnessed by his February article offering support to the Pope in the face of the "madness" of Harriet Harman's Equality Bill.

Louie Spence Choreographer and TV star Had this been a list for the greatest reinforcers of gay stereotypes, the star of Sky 1's car-crash reality show Pineapple Dance Studios would obviously mince it. Alas, as it stands, we can't help but hear the clock ticking on those 15 minutes of his.

David Starkey Historian The Tudor expert made it to No 4 last year, but in 2010 his notorious acid tongue finally obscured all academic prowess, with ex-culture secretary Ben Bradshaw ("The French take culture seriously. We have Ben Bradshaw") and female historians (writers of "historical Mills and Boon") among those on the receiving end.