Talk:World Pride Power List 2013: Difference between revisions

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.

27 Sarah Gilbert, US actor

28 ~~Samantha Ronson~~

29 Laura Doughty, deputy chief exec, Stonewall

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!

30 Tom Ford, US fashion designer and film director

31 Lee Pearson, Paralympian equestrian

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.

32 Dr ~~Christian Jessen~~

33 Chaz Bono, US writer and musician

34 Chris Bryant, MP

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.

35 Anna Grodzka, Polish politician

36 Neil Patrick Harris, US actor, director

37 Angela Eagle, Labour MP

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.

38 Antony Cotton, actor

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.

39 Tim Gill, US founder of Quark

40 Liz Sayce, CEO, Disability Rights UK

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.

41 Portia de Rossi, Australian actor

42 Val McDermid, crime writer

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.

43 Zachary Quinto, US actor and film producer

44 Stella Duffy, writer and performer

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.

45 Nikolay Alexeyev, Russian LGBT rights campaigner

46 ~~Vincent Francois~~

47 Jóhanna Siguroardóttir, PM, Iceland

48 Craig Revel Horwood, TV personality

49 ~~Russell Tovey~~

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.

50 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.

51 Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer

52 Russell T Davies, screenwriter/producer

Davies's groundbreaking, late-1990s drama, Queer as Folk, dramatised his experiences on the Manchester gay scene.

53 ~~Rylan Clark~~

54 ~~Sue Sanders~~

55 Eileen Gallagher, television producer

Gallagher co-founded Shed Productions in 1998. The company is famous for making Waterloo Road.

56 Maureen Chadwick, screenwriter

Chadwick is co-founder of Shed Productions. She co-created Bad Girls.

57 Liz Bingham, managing partner, Ernst & Young

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.

58 Claire Harvey, Paralympian volleyball player

Sportswoman and Team GB's Paralympian volleyball star, Harvey is also involved in the management of the Great Britain deaf women's football team.

59 Marguerite McLaughlin, CEO, Metro Centre

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.

60 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.

61 Adam Lambert, US singer

62 Ben Bradshaw, MP

The gay Labour MP, who is a practising Christian, has criticised the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches for refusing to accept gay marriage.

63 ~~Sophie Ward~~

64 ~~Paul Flowers~~

65 Tim Hely Hutchinson, CEO, Hachette

Hutchinson is the younger son of the eighth Earl of Donoughmore and the CEO of the UK's largest publisher.

66 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.

67 Margot James, MP

MP for Stourbridge, James is the first openly lesbian Tory MP in history.

68 Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris

69 Jason Collins, NBA player

70 Louie Spence, TV personality

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.

71 Harish Iyer, Indian LGBT activist

72 Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, MD UK Black Pride

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.

73 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.

74 Paul Burston, writer

Burston is editor of the gay section of London listings magazine Time Out and founder of gay literary event Polari.

75 ~~Paul Reed~~

The CEO of integrated supply trading at BP, Reed has criticised the City for old-fashioned attitudes to LGBT staff.

76 Daniel Winterfeldt, Lawyer

US securities lawyer Winterfeldt is head of CMS's International Capital Markets group.

77 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.

78 Ashley Steel, city adviser

Steel is a board member at management services company KPMG, where she is also a member of the board subgroup for diversity.

79 Alice Arnold, broadcaster

Broadcaster, presenter and Radio 4 newsreader, Arnold is civil partner of sports presenter Clare Balding.

80 ~~Marai Larasi~~

81 ~~Mark McLane~~

82 ~~Horse McDonald~~

83 Julie Bindel, journalist

Feminist journalist and Guardian contributor Bindel is co-founder of the group Justice for Women, which opposes violence against women.

84 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.

85 Andy Woodfield, partner PwC

86 ~~Pratibha Parmar~~

87 Barney Frank, US politician

88 ~~Andi Keeling~~

89 ~~Neil Bentley~~

90 Omar Sharif Jr, Egyptian actor

91 ~~Harry Derbidge~~

92 ~~Jeff Holland~~

93 ~~Jonathan Harvey~~

94 ~~Lance Price~~

95 Diana King, Jamaican singer

96 ~~James Wharton~~

97 ~~Denise Marshall~~

98 ~~Tim Sigsworth~~

99 ~~Ceri Goddard~~

100 ~~Jane Czyzselska~~

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 Anderson Cooper, US broadcast journalist
-[[Mary Portas]], retail expert and presenter
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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.
 Jodie Foster, US actor