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| # Ellen De Generes - US actress | | # Ellen De Generes - US actress |
| # [[Stephen Fry]] | | # <s>[[Stephen Fry]]</s> |
| # Jane Lynch - US actress | | # Jane Lynch - US actress |
| # [[Clare Balding]] | | # <s>[[Clare Balding]]</s> |
| # Tim Cook - CEO Apple | | # Tim Cook - CEO Apple |
| # [[Sir Elton John]] | | # <s>[[Sir Elton John]]</s> |
| # [[Lord Alli]] | | # <s>[[Lord Alli]]</s> |
| # Tammy Baldwin - US Senator | | # Tammy Baldwin - US Senator |
| # [[Gok Wan]] | | # <s>[[Gok Wan]]</s> |
| # [[Sir Ian McKellen]] | | # <s>[[Sir Ian McKellen]]</s> |
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| 11 [[Peter Tatchell]], campaigner | | 11 <s>[[Peter Tatchell]]</s> |
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| 12 Martina Navratilova, Czech American former tennis player | | 12 Martina Navratilova, Czech American former tennis player |
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| 13 [[Alan Carr]], comedian | | 13 <s>[[Alan Carr]]</s> |
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| 14 [[Charlie Condou]], actor
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| 15 [[Michael Cashman]], MEP
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| Recently voted MEP of the year for justice and fundamental rights by his peers, former actor Cashman, a co-founder of Stonewall, is best known for his role as Colin in EastEnders. He registered his civil partnership with Paul Cottingham in 2006 and was awarded a CBE for his equality work.
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| 16 [[Graham Norton]], TV presenter
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| 17 [[Jane Hill]], broadcast journalist
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| Always open about her sexual orientation, Hill has been a presenter and BBC newsreader for many years. She has worked on many high-profile stories, including the elections of Barack Obama. She has presented the European Diversity Awards since 2011.
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| 18 [[Heather Peace]], actor and singer
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| A British actor and musician, with roles in Casualty, Holby City, Coronation Street and Lip Service, Peace is a patron of Manchester Pride and the Diversity Role Models charity.
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| 19 [[Jessie J]], singer
| | 16 <s>[[Graham Norton]]</s> |
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| Jessie J came out as bisexual in 2011. The singer-songwriter and judge on The Voice became the first UK female solo artist to achieve six top-10 singles from a single studio album, her debut Who Are You?
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| 20 [[Sue Perkins]], comedian and presenter
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| Perkins began her career as half of double-act Mel and Sue on Channel 4's daytime show Light Lunch. She has written for French and Saunders and Ab Fab, as well as countless radio series. In 2008, Perkins conducted the BBC's Concert Orchestra in Hyde Park during the Last Night of the Proms, after winning the BBC's Maestro competition.
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| 21 [[Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe]], head of diversity and inclusion, Google EMEA
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| One of the most influential and innovative diversity professionals, he conceived Google's Legalise Love campaign, aimed at countries where homosexuality is illegal. He is a trustee of Kaleidoscope Trust and founder and chairman of the Inclusive Foundation.
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| 22 Elio Di Rupo, PM, Belgium | | 22 Elio Di Rupo, PM, Belgium |
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| 23 Anderson Cooper, US broadcast journalist | | 23 Anderson Cooper, US broadcast journalist |
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| 24 [[Mary Portas]], retail expert and presenter | | <s>24 [[Mary Portas]]</s> |
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| Portas is best known for her TV shows in which she helps struggling shops transform their fortunes. Her recent show, Mary Queen of the High Street, began last month on Channel 4. She lives with her children and civil partner, Grazia magazine fashion features editor Melanie Rickey.
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| 25 Jodie Foster, US actor | | 25 Jodie Foster, US actor |
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| 26 [[Anthony Watson]], MD and CIO, Barclays | | 26 <s>[[Anthony Watson]]</s> |
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| Alongside his demanding job in the City, Watson is chair of the European Diversity Awards, a member of the board of DGS plc and a trustee of the Inclusive Foundation, an LGBT youth charity. Watson is a driving force for diversity and inclusion across the UK and abroad.
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| 27 Sarah Gilbert, US actor | | 27 Sarah Gilbert, US actor |
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| 28 [[Samantha Ronson]], DJ | | 28 <s>[[Samantha Ronson]]</s> |
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| The English-born DJ, who lives in California, has spun her discs at some of the highest-profile events across the globe, including private parties for Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Ellen DeGeneres and Natalie Portman.
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| 29 [[Laura Doughty]], deputy chief exec, Stonewall
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| Doughty has been instrumental in encouraging more lesbian involvement in Stonewall and was a driving force behind the organisation's hugely successful 2012 London bus marketing campaign, Some People Are Gay. Get Over It! | | 29 <s>[[Laura Doughty]]</s> |
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| 30 Tom Ford, US fashion designer and film director | | 30 Tom Ford, US fashion designer and film director |
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| 31 [[Lee Pearson]], Paralympian equestrian | | 31 <s>[[Lee Pearson]]</s> |
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| The openly gay equestrian, who was born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita – a rare congenital disorder – is a 10-time Paralympic Games gold medallist and represented Britain in Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London. Last year, Pearson won gold in the team dressage event, silver in the championship dressage and bronze in the freestyle. He came out to his parents shortly before his 21st birthday.
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| 32 Dr [[Christian Jessen]], celebrity doctor
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| The huge success of Channel 4's intimate programmes Supersize vs Superskinny and Embarrassing Bodies has catapulted this 36-year-old doctor into the public eye. Alongside his TV shows, Jessen regularly contributes to newspapers and magazines, and has written a couple of books. He specialises in HIV and sexual health, having spent a couple of years working in Kenya and Uganda.
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| 33 Chaz Bono, US writer and musician | | 33 Chaz Bono, US writer and musician |
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| 34 [[Chris Bryant]], MP | | 34 <s>[[Chris Bryant]]</s> |
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| A Labour MP, Bryant is shadow minister for borders and immigration. He and his partner, Jared Cranney, had the first civil partnership ceremony held in the Houses of Parliament.
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| 35 Anna Grodzka, Polish politician | | 35 Anna Grodzka, Polish politician |
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| 36 Neil Patrick Harris, US actor, director | | 36 Neil Patrick Harris, US actor, director |
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| 37 [[Angela Eagle]], Labour MP | | 37 <s>[[Angela Eagle]]</s> |
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| Shadow leader of the House of Commons, this well-respected Labour politician was the first openly gay woman in parliament when she came out in September 1998 and the first lesbian in a ministerial post.
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| 38 [[Antony Cotton]], actor
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| Through playing the gay character Sean Tully in Coronation Street and taking a pivotal role in a breakthrough gay-parenting storyline with fellow actor Charlie Condou, Cotton has done much to break down prejudice among the show's massive UK audience.
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| 39 Tim Gill, US founder of Quark | | 39 Tim Gill, US founder of Quark |
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| 40 [[Liz Sayce]], CEO, Disability Rights UK | | 40 <s>[[Liz Sayce]]</s> |
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| Sayce is one of the UK's foremost authorities on disability issues. She spent eight years as policy director of the mental health charity Mind and has published many books on mental health, disability and social inclusion.
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| 41 Portia de Rossi, Australian actor | | 41 Portia de Rossi, Australian actor |
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| 42 [[Val McDermid]], crime writer | | 42 <s>[[Val McDermid]]</s> |
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| The Scottish crime writer and broadcaster said this year that she wants Kelly Smith, her partner since 2004, to become her wife when gay marriage laws are passed. She formed a civil partnership with Smith two years ago. McDermid shares custody of her son with her former partner.
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| 43 Zachary Quinto, US actor and film producer | | 43 Zachary Quinto, US actor and film producer |
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| 44 [[Stella Duffy]], writer and performer | | 44 <s>[[Stella Duffy]]</s> |
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| Novelist Duffy said in an interview with the Independent last year: "No one ever says 'He's a straight; she's a heterosexual', but I'm constantly being called 'a lesbian' and it's just not the most interesting thing about me." Duffy has been a vocal crusader for gay marriage and formed a civil partnership with the playwright Shelley Silas in 2004.
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| 45 Nikolay Alexeyev, Russian LGBT rights campaigner | | 45 Nikolay Alexeyev, Russian LGBT rights campaigner |
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| 46 [[Vincent Francois]], regional group head of audit, Société Générale | | 46 <s>[[Vincent Francois]]</s> |
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| Francois has responsibility for activities spanning 10 countries. In 2010, he created Société Générale's first LGB network in the UK and has helped to revolutionise the diversity credentials at the company, where he sits on the UK diversity committee.
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| 47 Jóhanna Siguroardóttir, PM, Iceland | | 47 Jóhanna Siguroardóttir, PM, Iceland |
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| 48 [[Craig Revel Horwood]], TV personality | | 48 <s>[[Craig Revel Horwood]]</s> |
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| Strictly Come Dancing stalwart Revel Horwood has been a judge on all 10 series of the BBC dance show. He is openly bisexual and, this year, is choreographing a new musical version of the American sitcom Happy Days for a UK tour.
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| 49 [[Russell Tovey]], actor
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| Known as werewolf George Sands in the BBC supernatural drama Being Human, Tovey also played Steve in Him & Her and is currently in The Job Lot. As an openly gay actor, he said this year he is waiting for the right gay role to come along.
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| 50 Lord [[John Browne]], former CEO BP
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| Browne was outed by the Mail on Sunday in 2007. He has written about his own sexuality and coming out in general. | | 50 <s>[[John Browne]]</s> |
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| 51 Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer | | 51 Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer |
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| 52 [[Russell T Davies]], screenwriter/producer | | 52 <s>[[Russell T Davies]]</s> |
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| Davies's groundbreaking, late-1990s drama, Queer as Folk, dramatised his experiences on the Manchester gay scene.
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| 53 [[Rylan Clark]], TV personality
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| The Essex singer has remained in the public eye since failing to win The X Factor last year. He is co-host of Big Brother's Bit On The Side.
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| 54 [[Sue Sanders]], LGBT rights activist
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| Sanders has fought oppression in the public and third sectors for more than 30 years. She implemented LGBT History Month, now in its ninth year.
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| 55 [[Eileen Gallagher]], television producer
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| Gallagher co-founded Shed Productions in 1998. The company is famous for making Waterloo Road.
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| 56 [[Maureen Chadwick]], screenwriter
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| Chadwick is co-founder of Shed Productions. She co-created Bad Girls.
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| 57 [[Liz Bingham]], managing partner, Ernst & Young
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| Bingham started her career straight from school and now she is seeking to put more women and diverse ethnicities in the boardroom. She was recently appointed president of R3 – the industry body for corporate restructuring professionals.
| | 55 <s>[[Eileen Gallagher]]</s> |
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| 58 [[Claire Harvey]], Paralympian volleyball player
| | 56 <s>[[Maureen Chadwick]]</s> |
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| Sportswoman and Team GB's Paralympian volleyball star, Harvey is also involved in the management of the Great Britain deaf women's football team.
| | 57 <s>[[Liz Bingham]]</s> |
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| 59 [[Marguerite McLaughlin]], CEO, Metro Centre
| | 58 <s>[[Claire Harvey]]</s> |
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| As CEO of leading equality and diversity charity Metro, Marguerite McLaughlin BEM, provides a range of services for the LGBT community and others across the south-east.
| | 59 <s>[[Marguerite McLaughlin]]</s> |
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| 60 [[Maggi Hambling]], artist | | 60 <s>[[Maggi Hambling]]</s> |
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| The creator of the 4m Scallop on Aldeburgh beach, Hambling was the first artist to be given a residency at the National Portrait Gallery.
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| 61 Adam Lambert, US singer | | 61 Adam Lambert, US singer |
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| 62 [[Ben Bradshaw]], MP | | 62 <s>[[Ben Bradshaw]]</s> |
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| The gay Labour MP, who is a practising Christian, has criticised the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches for refusing to accept gay marriage.
| | 63 <s>[[Sophie Ward]]</s> |
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| 63 [[Sophie Ward]], actor
| | 64 <s>[[Paul Flowers]]</s> |
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| Ward became a gay hero in 1997 when she came out as a lesbian, left her husband and began a long-term relationship with writer Rena Brannan.
| | 65 <s>[[Tim Hely Hutchinson]]</s> |
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| 64 [[Paul Flowers]], CEO Co-op
| | 66 <s>[[Amy Lamé]]</s> |
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| The Stonewall Workplace Equality index ranked the Co-op as the third-best organisation in the UK for LGBT people to work. Methodist minister Flowers is also a trustee of HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust.
| | 67 <s>[[Margot James]]</s> |
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| 65 [[Tim Hely Hutchinson]], CEO, Hachette
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| Hutchinson is the younger son of the eighth Earl of Donoughmore and the CEO of the UK's largest publisher.
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| 66 [[Amy Lamé]], performer and writer
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| Amy Lamé, the woman behind the cult performance collective and club night Duckie, has turned her obsession with Morrissey and the Smiths into her latest one-woman show.
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| 67 [[Margot James]], MP
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| MP for Stourbridge, James is the first openly lesbian Tory MP in history.
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| 68 Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris | | 68 Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris |
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| 69 Jason Collins, NBA player | | 69 Jason Collins, NBA player |
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| 70 [[Louie Spence]], TV personality | | 70 <s>[[Louie Spence]]</s> |
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| Artistic director at Pineapple Dance Studios, Spence is a TV personality, choreographer and producer-director of musical theatre. His autobiography, Still Got It, Never Lost It, was published in 2011.
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| 71 Harish Iyer, Indian LGBT activist | | 71 Harish Iyer, Indian LGBT activist |
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| 72 [[Phyll Opoku-Gyimah]], MD UK Black Pride | | 72 <s>[[Phyll Opoku-Gyimah]]</s> |
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| Founder and managing director of UK Black Pride, Opoku-Gyimah, or Lady Phyll as she is known, campaigns for equality in the workplace through her seat on the TUC race relations committee.
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| 73 [[Suran Dickson]], CEO Diversity Role Models
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| Dickson quit as a London school teacher in 2011 to set up Diversity Role Models, challenging homophobia by taking positive gay role models into schools.
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| 74 [[Paul Burston]], writer
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| Burston is editor of the gay section of London listings magazine Time Out and founder of gay literary event Polari.
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| 75 [[Paul Reed]], CEO BP
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| The CEO of integrated supply trading at BP, Reed has criticised the City for old-fashioned attitudes to LGBT staff.
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| 76 [[Daniel Winterfeldt]], Lawyer
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| US securities lawyer Winterfeldt is head of CMS's International Capital Markets group.
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| 77 Sir [[Cameron Mackintosh]], producer
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| Mackintosh is famous for turning musicals such as Les Misérables into global theatrical productions. Openly gay, he is patron of The Food Chain, a London HIV charity.
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| 78 [[Ashley Steel]], city adviser
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| Steel is a board member at management services company KPMG, where she is also a member of the board subgroup for diversity.
| | 77 <s>[[Cameron Mackintosh]]</s> |
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| 79 [[Alice Arnold]], broadcaster
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| Broadcaster, presenter and Radio 4 newsreader, Arnold is civil partner of sports presenter Clare Balding.
| | 79 <s>[[Alice Arnold]]</s> |
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| 80 [[Marai Larasi]], CEO Imkaan | | 80 <s>[[Marai Larasi]]</s> |
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| Director of black feminist organisation Imkaan, Larasi is dedicated to ending violence against women and girls.
| | 81 <s>[[Mark McLane]]</s> |
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| 81 [[Mark McLane]], MD, global head of diversity and inclusion, Barclays
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| American businessman McLane moved to the UK in 2011 with his partner Carlos, to lead Barclays' diversity programme. He didn't come out professionally until he was 32, but says it has since shaped his career.
| | 83 <s>[[Julie Bindel]]</s> |
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| 82 [[Horse McDonald]], musician
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| Earlier this year, the Scottish singer songwriter married her partner in her home town of Lanark, where she had faced anti-gay bullying growing up.
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| 83 [[Julie Bindel]], journalist
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| Feminist journalist and Guardian contributor Bindel is co-founder of the group Justice for Women, which opposes violence against women.
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| 84 [[Fiona Shaw, actor]]
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| An actor who has starred in and directed many theatrical productions and screen dramas, Shaw is possibly best known for her role as Mrs Dursley in the Harry Potter films.
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| 85 [[Andy Woodfield]], partner PwC
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| Woodfield created the Glee at PwC network, an employee network for "gays, lesbians and everyone else".
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| 86 [[Pratibha Parmar]], film-maker | |
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| Known for her politically complex documentaries focusing on disenfranchised groups, Parmar's most recent film, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth, is a feature-length documentary about the life and art of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Colour Purple.
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| 87 Barney Frank, US politician | | 87 Barney Frank, US politician |
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| 88 [[Andi Keeling]], MD, women's markets, RBS | | 88 <s>[[Andi Keeling]]</s> |
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| The male-dominated banking world put Keeling off being out at work; she now hopes she can be an inspiration to other gay women in the sector.
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| 89 [[Neil Bentley]], deputy director-general, CBI | | 89 <s>[[Neil Bentley]]</s> |
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| Bentley represents the CBI nationally and internationally, and is a champion of boardroom diversity.
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| 90 Omar Sharif Jr, Egyptian actor | | 90 Omar Sharif Jr, Egyptian actor |
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| 91 [[Harry Derbidge]], TV personality | | 91 <s>[[Harry Derbidge]]</s> |
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| Perhaps the most recognisable gay teenager in the country, Harry Derbidge has left The Only Way is Essex and opened a shop in Brentwood.
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| 92 [[Jeff Holland]], co-founder, Liongate Capital Management
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| Jeff Holland is managing director and co-founder of Liongate Capital Management, which has just sold a 55% stake of the company to US asset manager Principal Global Investors. He was named one of the top 40 hedge fund managers under 40.
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| 93 [[Jonathan Harvey]], playwright
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| Liverpool-born playwright Harvey had his first success with the gay-themed play Beautiful Thing, which became a 1996 film.
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| 94 Lance Price, founder Kaleidoscope
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| The British writer, journalist and political commentator Lance Price launched the Kaleidoscope Trust in 2011 to campaign for equality for LGBT people across the world.
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| 95 Diana King, singer
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| Jamaican reggae singer Diana King came out last year, posting to Facebook: "I am... woman ... mother ... aunt ... Jamaican ... American ... international artiste ... singer ... songwriter ... band leader ... friend ... lover ... entrepreneur ... goddess … and yes … I am a lesbian."
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| 96 [[James Wharton]], writer, ex-soldier
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| Wharton has written about being gay in the army.
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| 97 [[Denise Marshall]], CEO, Eaves
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| Marshall's charity, Eaves, helps victims of violence and sex trafficking. She returned her OBE in protest at the budget cuts.
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| 98 [[Tim Sigsworth]], Albert Kennedy Trust
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| Tim Sigsworth is chief executive of the Albert Kennedy Trust, which helps young LGBT people who have been made homeless or are living in a hostile environment.
| | 96 <s>[[James Wharton]]</s> |
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| 99 [[Ceri Goddard]], CEO, Fawcett Society
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| In her professional capacity, Goddard campaigns for the equality of women at all levels. She is also a trustee of the Equality and Diversity Forum.
| | 98 <s>[[Tim Sigsworth]]</s> |
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| 100 [[Jane Czyzselska]], editor of Diva
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| As editor of Diva, the biggest-selling magazine in Europe for lesbian and bisexual women, Czyzselska emphasises the community's diversity.
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