Category talk:Pink List 2013

The former primary school teacher is working on a PhD about young trans people, focusing in particular on social media. She is co-chair of Camden LGBT Forum, sits on LGBT Labour’s national committee and is a founder member of London Trans Diversity and the Trans Teachers’ Association.

70. (95) Susan Calman @SusanCalman

Comedian

Time Out once declared that the award-winning stand-up, writer and actress would “make you chuckle your pants off”. The Glaswegian turned her back on a career as a corporate lawyer in 2006 and has since featured on TV shows such as QI and Have I Got News for You.

71. (re-entry) Jeffrey John @StAlbansAbbey

Dean of St Albans Cathedral

The first person openly in a same-sex relationship to be nominated as an Anglican bishop in 2003 – when he withdrew amid controversy - John is often mentioned when vacancies come up. He is in favour of gay marriage because “I’m sure God is too”.

72. (100) Claire Harvey @harveyvolley

Paralympian

Proclaimed “Hero of the Year” at the 2013 European Diversity Awards, GB sitting-volleyball Paralympic star Harvey leads the government's LGBT sports charter steering group. She previously worked at the Financial Services Authority, but is now assistant director of inclusion at the Youth Sport Trust charity.

73. (new entry) Christopher Kane

Fashion designer

In a successful year for the Scottish designer, the French luxury goods label PPR took a 51 per cent stake in his label, he wowed London Fashion Week, announced plans for his first stand-alone store in London, and won the top prize at the Scottish Fashion Awards on Wednesday.

74. (45) John Amaechi, OBE @JohnAmaechi

Speaker, businessman, retired basketball player

The first gay man – and Brit – to have his jersey hung in the US Basketball Hall of Fame, Amaechi now spends his retirement as a trained psychologist, best-selling author, sports pundit and philanthropist, most recently providing basketball scholarships for the University of Salford. He was awarded an OBE in 2011.

75. (44) Dr Ashley Steel

Board member of KPMG Europe

Having worked in 35 countries during her 25 years at the accountancy giant KPMG, Steel now leads the UK firm’s infrastructure, government and health practice. She is a member of the board’s sub group for diversity and is board sponsor for sexual orientation and corporate social responsibility.

76. (35) Will Young @will_young31

Singer, actor and writer

The first ever Pop Idol winner, Young has been nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in the musical Cabaret. He has high hopes for the future, and would love to star in a comedy or detective TV series.

Young was nominated for a Olivier Award last year Young was nominated for a Olivier Award last year

77. (68) Lynette Nusbacher @Nusbacher

Strategic thinker

Runs her own think-tank, Nusbacher Associates, which is currently working to improve UK cyber security and coordination. A member of Women Working in Foreign Affairs and previously a war studies lecturer at Sandhurst, “Devil’s Advocate” at the Joint Intelligence Organisation and head of the Cabinet Office’s “Strategic Horizons Unit”.

78. (re-entry) Liam Nolan @LiamNolanPB

Headmaster

Dubbed “the Sir Alex Ferguson of headteachers”, Nolan is credited with transforming the failing Perry Beeches Secondary School in Birmingham into one described by David Cameron as “the most improved school in Britain ever”. Two more Perry Beeches Academy free schools have opened and a fourth is planned.

79. (new entry) Lewis Hancox & Raphael Fox @SaluteHQ @MrLewzer

Filmmakers

After appearing in Channel 4’s My Transsexual Summer in 2011, Hancox and Fox formed My Genderation Films to make documentaries about the trans community. They are currently producing about one film every three weeks, including one, about 14-year-old Tayler from Wales, that has been picked up by BBC3.

80. (66) Ceri Goddard

Chief Executive, the Fawcett Society

As chief executive of the largest membership organisation promoting women’s rights in the UK, Goddard works to promote women’s equality and human rights. She previously worked at the British Institute of Human Rights and Ireland’s Combat Poverty Agency, where she helped to foster the cross-border peace and reconciliation programme.

81. (new entry) Kathy Caton @kathycaton, @BBCPride

Radio producer and presenter

Her show Out in Brighton on Radio Reverb is a globally influential LGBT show with listeners in Taiwan, Brazil and beyond, featuring in-depth interviews and musicians such as the Chalkwell Ladies Drum ‘n’ Bass League. She helps run the LGBT staff network BBC Pride and the cross-industry InterMedia network.

82. (new entry) Kate Walsh & Helen Richardson @h_richardson8 @katewalsh11

Hockey players

Just over a year after they helped Great Britain win its first Olympic women’s hockey medal in 20 years, team captain Kate Walsh and midfielder Helen Richardson got married in September. Maidenhead-based Richardson is studying psychology and Walsh was voted onto the European Athletes’ Commission earlier this month.

83. (new entry) J W Anderson @JW_Anderson

Fashion designer

The 6ft 2in designer, son of an Irish rugby international, is the “newest, brightest big thing” according to Vogue. He graduated from London College of Fashion in 2005, launched a menswear label in 2008 and later moved into women’s fashion. He is known for blurring gender lines in his collections.

84. (new entry) Andy Woodfield @andy_woodfield

Partner, PWC

Woodfield founded and runs GLEE - Gays, Lesbians and Everyone Else (www.pwc.co.uk/glee) – now a network for employees of any company, gay or straight. “Our core goal is to make sure there’s a safe place for gays and lesbians to talk about the challenges of coming out at work,” he says.

85. (91) Kelvin Holdsworth

Episcopalian Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow

A staunch supporter of equal marriage, Holdsworth recently issued a list of “10 Things Gay People Still Need”, including a commitment by the Archbishop of Canterbury to support gay clergy and for Hollywood to understand that “we don’t all end up dead or heartbroken – Brokeback Mountain, I’m talking about you”.

86. (78) Lisa Egan @lisybabe

Activist

“Failed comedian. Failed writer. Failed academic. Occasional blogger. Leftie kinda activist. Telly addict. Speccy, disabled, gay Essex girl currently in Camden.” Or at least that’s how she describes herself on Twitter. Her disability-rights activist’s blog, Where’s the Benefit, provides strong opposition to the government’s “distressing war on disabled benefit claimants”.

87. (77) Shaun Dellenty @ShaunDellenty

Campaigner, deputy headmaster of Alfred Salter Primary School in Southwark, London

Secondary school for Dellenty was “quite simply the worst experience of my life”, with sustained homophobic bullying from pupils and some teachers. In 2010, he founded Inclusion For All to try to change attitudes in schools and support children “who were obviously suffering”. He’s also a public speaker and writer.

88. (re-entry) Tris Reid-Smith @trisrs

Director and editor-in-chief of Gay Star News

After earning his stripes in local press, Reid-Smith moved to London “to enjoy the benefits of a bigger gay scene” and was soon editor of the Pink Paper. He and his partner Scott Nunn launched Gay Star News in January 2012 and it won Stonewall's Publication of the Year 11 months later.

89. (64) Russell Tovey @russelltovey

Actor

A geeky werewolf in Being Human; Rudge in The History Boys; layabout Steve in Him & Her… Tovey says he has become known for playing “loveable dickheads”. He is set for his first major American role in the HBO show Looking, which details the exploits of three gay friends in San Francisco.

90. (2012 journalists’ list) Julie Bindel @bindelj

Journalist and broadcaster

A powerful voice on domestic violence and LGBT issues, Bindel has caused outrage and had to apologise for “really inappropriate jokes” about gender reassignment clinics. She is working on a book about lesbian and gay culture and politics, called Straight Expectations.

91. (94) Steph Keeble & David Viney @birminghamlgbt

LGBT Birmingham

Keeble, the group’s director, has helped grow the charity’s turnover from £10,000 a year to £250,000 a year in just four years. Viney, its health & wellbeing manager, was instrumental in creating the inaugural SHOUT Queer Cultural Festival in 2009 and later events.

92. (new entry) Damian Barr @Damian_Barr

Writer, salonnière

A journalist, playwright and author, Barr is now famous for his best-selling memoir Maggie & Me, about growing up in Lanarkshire during the Thatcher years. His Literary Salon has seen writers such as Bret Easton Ellis, Louis de Bernières and Helen Fielding read their work for the first time.

93. (re-entry) Rikki Beadle-Blair @RikkiBB

Filmmaker

A performer, writer, director, composer, choreographer, artist, activist, CEO, publisher and mentor, Beadle-Blair’s work includes the forthcoming film Blackbird, about a young singer who struggles with his sexuality in a small Southern Baptist community in the US, and the 2011 short film Alive.

94. (90) Bisi Alimi @bisialimi

Activist

Three years after becoming the first Nigerian to come out on national television in his home country, an attempt on his life forced him to flee to the UK in 2007. In 2011 he helped set up the Kaleidoscope Trust, which campaigns against criminalisation, persecution and prejudice around the world.

95. (new entry) Rev Richard Coles @RevRichardColes

Broadcaster, musician, CofE priest

The former member of The Communards is now a Church of England priest, as well as co-presenting Radio 4’s Saturday Live. He’s also appeared on a number of TV shows, including Have I Got News For You. An avid Twitter user, he has nearly 50,000 followers.

96. (81) Jay Stewart @JayAStewart

Co-founder, Gendered Intelligence

Stewart is currently working on a PhD entitled “Trans on Telly: Popular Documentary and the Production of Transgender Knowledge”. He has made documentaries such as The Sci:dentity Project and Gender Variance in Primary School and also carries out trans awareness training.

97. (84) Evelyn Assante-Mensah, OBE @EHRC

Commissioner, Equality and Human Rights Commission

For more than 20 years, Asante-Mensah has worked to promote equality in a variety of roles. She helped turn the Black Health Agency from a small community group into one with a national profile. She also chaired Race for Health and NHS Manchester.

98. Darren Scott @darren_scott @gaytimesmag

Editor of GT

Since its launch in 1984, celebrating its 400th issue in 2011, Gay Times has become a cultural icon, appearing in Little Britain, Beautiful Thing and in the first advertising campaign with a gay kiss. Scott continues to take it from strength to strength. The current issue discusses Cher, and pornography.

99. (re-entry) Jim MacSweeney @gaystheword

Manager, Gay’s the Word Bookshop

Gay’s the Word in London was the UK’s first gay and lesbian bookshop when it opened in 1979 and will celebrate 35 years in the business next year having survived the London riots and the rise of internet booksellers. “As a bookshop, I think it punches well above its weight,” he says.

100. (93) Nigel Owens @Nigelrefowens

Rugby referee

After refereeing the 2007 and 2011 World Cups, Owens made headlines in 2012 when he admonished Treviso's Tobias Botes with the words “This is not soccer!”, a phrase that was printed on T-shirts. He is also a TV presenter, comic and president of the Wales Federation of Young Farmers Clubs.

101. (16) Iain Dale @IainDale

Publisher, blogger

When he isn’t wrestling protesters outside party conferences, the popular and hard-hitting blogger presents an award-winning LBC radio show. His publishing company, Biteback, scored one of hits of the year with Damian McBride’s controversial political memoirs, Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin.

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Pink List 2013: The Judges

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/pink-list-2013-the-judges-8876365.html

Heather Peace

Actress and musician

A favourite of our readers (this year she was nominated 226 times, but all our judges have elected not to appear on the list) and TV viewers (Lip Service was BBC3’s most popular show) Peace finished filming series nine of Waterloo Road in May, before touring Australia and headlining Manchester Pride. She is a patron of Diversity Role Models, and the only person to appear twice in six months on the cover of Diva magazine.

Christine Burns

Strategic Equality and Inclusion Specialist

A leading activist for transgender rights, Burns has been a patron of LGBT History Month; is the author of Making Equality Work; and a former vice-president of Press for Change. She was part a team who brought about legal protections against discrimination, the right to treatment on the NHS, and the Gender Recognition Act for trans people. She retired from frontline campaigning in 2007 and now blogs at blog.plain-sense.co.uk

Kim Watson

Media Director on GT, Diva and Meta print and digital magazines

Watson has more than 20 years’ experience in LGBT community media. Diva & GT were shortlisted for media pioneer awards in 2011 for magazine apps, and the Pink Paper and Diva won a Net Observer excellence award for their news-based websites. She became a Fellow of the Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing in 2013. Watson lives with her partner, 10-year-old daughter and two tom cats in east London.

Ben Summerskill

Chief executive of Stonewall

Summerskill has led Stonewall, the organisation that was founded in 1989 to campaign against Section 28, since 2003. Since then he has led campaigns on the introduction of civil partnerships, protection against discrimination, and the creation of a new criminal offence of incitement to homophobic hatred. In 2011, the one-time gossip columnist was shortlisted as Britain’s most admired charity chief executive in the Third Sector Awards.

Pink List 2013: National treasures

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/pink-list-2013-national-treasures-8876339.html

April Ashley MBE Model;
Russell T Davies OBE TV producer and screenwriter
Lauren Harries Media personality
Phyllida Lloyd CBE Theatre director
Matthew Parris Journalist
Alice Purnell OBE Trans campaigner
Stephen Whittle OBE Professor of equalities law
Sir Cameron Mackintosh Theatre producer
Paul O’Grady MBE Actor, presenter
Neil Tennant Musician
David Hockney OM, CH Artist
Andrew Pierce Journalist
Jeanette Winterson OBE Writer
Boy George Musician and DJ
Eileen Gallagher OBE Television producer
Sir Elton John Musician
Philip Hensher Writer
Julian Clary Comedian and writer
Alice Arnold Broadcaster
Alan Bennett Playwright
Alan Hollinghurst Novelist
Stephen Fry Actor and writer
Sir Ian McKellen CH, CBE Actor
Jonathan Harvey Playwright
Paul Burston Author and journalist
Fiona Shaw CBE Actress and director
Simon Callow CBE Actor
Rupert Everett Actor
Sir Nicholas Hytner Theatre director
Val McDermid Novelist
Brian Sewell Art critic
John Barrowman Actor
Sandi Toksvig Actor and presenter
Graham Norton Comedian and presenter
Colm Tóibín Novelist
Linda Bellos OBE Activist
David Lan Playwright and film-maker
Dr Christian Jessen TV presenter and doctor
Michael Grandage CBE Theatre director and producer
Jackie Kay MBE Poet and novelist

Pink List 2013: Politicians

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/pink-list-2013-politicians-8876335.html

Credit must go to those 366 MPs who voted in May to make the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill law, including the Prime Minister. Several LGBT MPs and party officials played their part in this historic vote. Mike Freer, the Conservative MP for Margaret Thatcher’s old seat, Golders Green and East Finchley, made one of the more moving speeches in the debate.He said that he was proud of his civil partnership, but wanted to be married like other people: “Many argue that we should be content with our civil partnership – after all it affords all of the same legal protections as marriage – but I ask my married colleagues, did you get married for legal protections it afforded you?” He concluded: “I’m not asking for special treatment, I am simply asking for equal treatment.” Generally, though, the Pink List politicos got on with the business of being good or bad politicians without speaking out as gay representatives and thus helped to cement the normalisation and equalisation of gay people in public life. Sexual orientation played no part in last week’s reshuffle, for example. In the Government, Greg Barker, Nick Boles, Alan Duncan and David Laws were neither promoted nor sacked. Stephen Williams, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bristol West, became a minister in the Department for Communities and Local Government. On the Opposition side, Angela Eagle moved sideways from Transport to Food and Rural Affairs, but the demotion of Stephen Twigg from Education to Justice was reported mainly as a subplot in the “cull of the Blairites”. It was only Pink News that commented that he was “one of the country’s most senior gay politicians”. Another year of progress towards a point where the sexuality of public figures is not “news” – but we appreciate what they have done to get us this far, an honourable mention for our honourable friends: Margot James; Jonny Oates; Chris Bryant; Lord Black of Brentwood; Simon Hughes; Steve Reed; Julian Glover; Lord Smith of Finsbury; Michael Salter; Ben Bradshaw; Nigel Evans; Ruth Davidson; Baroness Barker and Lord Alli.

Pink List 2013: Ones to watch

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/pink-list-2013-ones-to-watch-8876334.html

Grace Petrie

Singer

Petrie has a voice that’s been compared to Laura Marling’s and Kate Nash’s, she describes her music as indie folk rock with “acoustic punk twist”. Some say her politically sharp lyrics make her the new Billy Bragg.

Stephen Clarke

CEO of W H Smith

In July this year, Clarke became one of the UK’s few openly gay chief executives of a major company when he was promoted to chief executive of W H Smith. What he does to make life easier for LGBT employees remains to be seen.

Sophie Green

Artist and illustrator

Five years ago Green moved to Liverpool, and saw her artistic career take off.

She has produced works for the London 2012 Olympics and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. She says her art is “light, bright … with a big spoonful of humour”.

Nicole Gibson

Model

The 5ft 11in trans model was the “unexpected star of London Fashion Week”, according to the Daily Mail. “They say you have not really made it as a model until you walk along the catwalk in a sheer dress with your nipples showing – and here I was doing it in my first show,” she told the paper.

Alicya Eyo

Actress

Currently playing Ruby Haswell in Emmerdale, Eyo made her name as Denny Blood in the acclaimed prison drama Bad Girls and has also appeared in Casualty and Silent Witness. She is a patron of LGBT Youth North West.

Sarah Garrett

Entrepreneur

Co-founder of Square Peg Media, which sponsored the Stonewall Awards. The firm produces g3 and Out in the City magazines. Together with Linda Riley, Garrett set up the Alternatives Families Show and the Big Gay Lifestyle Show.

Sarah Weir OBE

Executive

After overseeing the arts during London’s 2012 Olympics, Weir is believed to be about to take up an exciting new post. The former Stonewall trustee and founding patron of LGBT History Month has also worked as executive director at Arts Council England and the Almeida Theatre in London.

Jo Clifford

Playwright

The prolific, Edinburgh-based writer has penned about 80 plays and is also a performer and teacher. She describes herself as a “trans woman and father with two beautiful daughters”. “In love with life. Hoping the best, always,” she says on her Twitter profile.

Jessica Clark

Actress

Played the vampire goddess Lilith in the hit US show True Blood and also co-starred in Nicole Conn’s film A Perfect Ending. Clark studied law at the London School of Economics then switched to modelling and acting. Also the host of the weekly show Lesbian Love on AfterEllen.com.

Nigel Fletcher

Conservative councillor and businessman

When asked if he would like to advertise his company in the Daily Mail, Fletcher responded with an eloquent refusal that condemned the paper for causing “profound offence to gay people” for years. It went viral and turned Fletcher into a national star.

Harriet Wistrich

Lawyer

Represents eight women who entered into relationships with men not knowing they were undercover police officers spying on protest groups. Radical feminist and co-founder of Justice for Women. Also involved in the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize, Medical Justice and the Police Action Lawyers Group.

Harmony Boucher

Model, musician

Sings with the band Vuvuvultures, alongside her wife, Nicole B. Coelho, on bass. Clash magazine described them as a “vital, visceral collective” after a “blood-curdling performance” earlier this year.

Pink List 2013: Friends to LGBT people

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/pink-list-2013-friends-to-lgbt-people-8876326.html

Tilda Swinton

Actress

Swinton flew a rainbow flag in Red Square this year to support Russia’s beleaguered LGBT community and risked prosecution. “In solidarity. From Russia with love,” her spokesperson explained.

David Cameron

Prime Minister

Credited with pushing through The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill despite a rebellion by 136 Tory MPs. The first ceremonies are expected next summer.

Lynne Featherstone

Politician

The Lib Dem MP launched the consultation by the UK government on introducing equal marriage and was the first politician to take part in the Out4Marriage campaign.

Julie Hesmondhalgh

Actress

Hesmondhalgh stars as Hayley in Coronation Street and is patron of Trans Media Watch, Press for Change and Manchester’s Lesbian & Gay Foundation.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Musicians

Macklemore rapped on the Lewis-produced track “Same Love” (which hit No 6 in the UK singles chart): “Whatever god you believe in/ We come from the same one/ Strip away the fear, underneath, it’s all the same love.”

Simon Collins

Senior executive

The chairman of KPMG has won recognition for helping the gay partners at the firm come out without facing prejudice.

J H Williams and W Haden Blackman

Writers for DC Comics

They announced they were quitting their jobs, saying they had been asked to drop “long-standing story lines” about Batwoman, including her planned same-sex marriage.

Cher

Singer

The star has given vocal support of gay fans and her trans son Chaz Bono. She said Chaz’s decision had been difficult for her but added “we’ve actually had the most fun together lately than we’ve had in forever”.

Lisa Rodrigues

Health official

Under her watch as chief executive, the Sussex Partnership NHS mental health trust has risen to No 1 on Stonewall’s Health Equality Index for 2013.

Giles Fraser

Anglican priest

Founded the Inclusive Church group, which promotes the idea that the Church should “proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ regardless of sex, race or sexual orientation”.

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Pink List 2013: The Judges

Pink List 2013: National treasures

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