Talk:World Pride Power List 2013: Difference between revisions

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 <s>[[Angela Eagle]]</s>
-[[Antony Cotton]], actor
+<s>[[Antony Cotton]]</s>
-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.
 Tim Gill, US founder of Quark
-[[Liz Sayce]], CEO, Disability Rights UK
+<s>[[Liz Sayce]]</s>
-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.
 Portia de Rossi, Australian actor
-[[Val McDermid]], crime writer
+<s>[[Val McDermid]]</s>
-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.
 Zachary Quinto, US actor and film producer
-[[Stella Duffy]], writer and performer
+<s>[[Stella Duffy]]</s>
-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.
 Nikolay Alexeyev, Russian LGBT rights campaigner
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 Jóhanna Siguroardóttir, PM, Iceland
-[[Craig Revel Horwood]], TV personality
+<s>[[Craig Revel Horwood]]</s>
 <s>[[Russell Tovey]]</s>
-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.
+<s>[[John Browne]]</s>
-Lord [[John Browne]], former CEO BP
-Browne was outed by the Mail on Sunday in 2007. He has written about his own sexuality and coming out in general.
 Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
-[[Russell T Davies]], screenwriter/producer
+<s>[[Russell T Davies]]</s>
-Davies's groundbreaking, late-1990s drama, Queer as Folk, dramatised his experiences on the Manchester gay scene.
 <s>[[Rylan Clark]]</s>
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 <s>[[Sue Sanders]]</s>
-[[Eileen Gallagher]], television producer
+<s>[[Eileen Gallagher]]</s>
-Gallagher co-founded Shed Productions in 1998. The company is famous for making Waterloo Road.
-[[Maureen Chadwick]], screenwriter
-Chadwick is co-founder of Shed Productions. She co-created Bad Girls.
-[[Liz Bingham]], managing partner, Ernst & Young
+<s>[[Maureen Chadwick]]</s>
-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.
+<s>[[Liz Bingham]]</s>
-[[Claire Harvey]], Paralympian volleyball player
+<s>[[Claire Harvey]]</s>
-Sportswoman and Team GB's Paralympian volleyball star, Harvey is also involved in the management of the Great Britain deaf women's football team.
+<s>[[Marguerite McLaughlin]]</s>
-[[Marguerite McLaughlin]], CEO, Metro Centre
+<s>[[Maggi Hambling]]</s>
-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.
-[[Maggi Hambling]], artist
-The creator of the 4m Scallop on Aldeburgh beach, Hambling was the first artist to be given a residency at the National Portrait Gallery.
 Adam Lambert, US singer
-[[Ben Bradshaw]], MP
+<s>[[Ben Bradshaw]]</s>
-The gay Labour MP, who is a practising Christian, has criticised the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches for refusing to accept gay marriage.
 <s>[[Sophie Ward]]</s>
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 <s>[[Paul Flowers]]</s>
-[[Tim Hely Hutchinson]], CEO, Hachette
+<s>[[Tim Hely Hutchinson]]</s>
-Hutchinson is the younger son of the eighth Earl of Donoughmore and the CEO of the UK's largest publisher.
-[[Amy Lamé]], performer and writer
-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.
-[[Margot James]], MP
+<s>[[Amy Lamé]]</s>
-MP for Stourbridge, James is the first openly lesbian Tory MP in history.
+<s>[[Margot James]]</s>
 Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris
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 Jason Collins, NBA player
-[[Louie Spence]], TV personality
+<s>[[Louie Spence]]</s>
-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.
 Harish Iyer, Indian LGBT activist
-[[Phyll Opoku-Gyimah]], MD UK Black Pride
+<s>[[Phyll Opoku-Gyimah]]</s>
-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.
-[[Suran Dickson]], CEO Diversity Role Models
-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.
-[[Paul Burston]], writer
+<s>[[Suran Dickson]]</s>
-Burston is editor of the gay section of London listings magazine Time Out and founder of gay literary event Polari.
+<s>[[Paul Burston]]</s>
 <s>[[Paul Reed]]</s>
-The CEO of integrated supply trading at BP, Reed has criticised the City for old-fashioned attitudes to LGBT staff.
+<s>[[Daniel Winterfeldt]]</s>
-[[Daniel Winterfeldt]], Lawyer
-US securities lawyer Winterfeldt is head of CMS's International Capital Markets group.
-Sir [[Cameron Mackintosh]], producer
-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.
+<s>[[Cameron Mackintosh]]</s>
-[[Ashley Steel]], city adviser
+<s>[[Ashley Steel]]</s>
-Steel is a board member at management services company KPMG, where she is also a member of the board subgroup for diversity.
+<s>[[Alice Arnold]]</s>
-[[Alice Arnold]], broadcaster
-Broadcaster, presenter and Radio 4 newsreader, Arnold is civil partner of sports presenter Clare Balding.
 <s>[[Marai Larasi]]</s>
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 <s>[[Horse McDonald]]</s>
-[[Julie Bindel]], journalist
+<s>[[Julie Bindel]]</s>
-Feminist journalist and Guardian contributor Bindel is co-founder of the group Justice for Women, which opposes violence against women.
-[[Fiona Shaw (actor)]]
-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.
+<s>[[Fiona Shaw (actor)]]</s>
-[[Andy Woodfield]], partner PwC
+<s>[[Andy Woodfield]]</s>
 <s>[[Pratibha Parmar]]</s>