“The list serves to encompass both those fighting for equality and people who are influential role models.” “We haven’t numbered the entries because we see each entry as being equally important to the LGBT+ community,” the list’s authors say in their introduction. They have been categorised into the sections of arts, campaigners, entertainers, politics, business leaders, workplace heroes, charity and community, transgender and influencers. This year’s list, compiled by SquarePeg Media via a panel and public nominations, focuses solely on influential LGBT Britons.
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In 2012, the actor Jane Lynch, of the TV show Glee, was named the most powerful LGBT person in the world, followed by the talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres in 2013 and Laverne Cox, the American actor, from the drama series Orange is the New Black, in 2014, the first transgender person to do so. In the three years since the list began, when it was ranked, American women topped it.
Others, including the model Jacqui Gavin, the vice-chair of the Civil Service network a:gender, and lawyer Stephen Whittle, are long-time activists for trans rights.Īyla Holdom, a decorated RAF flight lieutenant, who is Britain’s only openly transgender military pilot, has been honoured, as has Kate Stone, a scientist, who won her Press Complaints Commission fight against newspapers who featured her transgender status after a traumatic accident when she was gored by a stag.
Several of those in the transgender category had only spoken publicly about transitioning in the past year they includethe radio presenter Stephanie Hirst and the boxing promoter Kellie Maloney.