The Pink List 100: The Write Stuff

One of the trickiest - or should that be tricksiest? - professions to select for the Pink List is journalists.
Gay journalists being journalists often have huge egos and hate not seeing their name in print as much as they love seeing it in it.
You ignore them at your peril.
Probably the first attempt to compile a similar list was the Gay Times 200 of "Britain's top 200 gay men and lesbians" - assembled for the magazine's 200th edition in May 1995.
The magazine was so concerned about missing anyone out, there were far more than 200 people included, and - perhaps wisely - they were not ranked.
One journalist was so incensed at not being included in it he put together a book that began by arguing that the Gay Times 200 was indicative of not just how dreadful the magazine had become but of everything that had gone wrong with the world of gay.
Hell hath no fury...
Let's annoy the self-loving upper class twit again by not mentioning his name here.
He's not in the Pink List 100 either.
There are seven journalists included this year*.
At 16 is Johann Hari - "The Independent's 31-year-old star columnist".
At 60 is Philip Hensher - "Hensher writes forthright columns for The Independent".
And there's a new entry at 62 Patrick Strudwick - "Uncovered an industry of therapists offering gay-to-straight conversion, and published the results, "The Ex-Gay Files: The Bizarre World of Gay-to-Straight Conversion", in The Independent."
Good for him.
The only other gay journalists both work for The Times; Matthew Parris at 49, and another new entry at 94, Tim Teeman.
The Independent kindly reminds readers Teeman; "Started on The Independent..."
The only lesbian journalist in the 100 is Julie Bindel at 98.
It neglects to say she's best-known for her writing in The Guardian.
She's also known for her transphobia and homophobia
When Bindel was shortlisted for a "journalist of the year" Stonewall Award in 1998, it led to 150 people protesting outside the awards ceremony.
Surely this ludicrous bigot belonged in The Independent On Sunday Pink List's 'Rogues' Gallery'?
This Pink Shit List did include one journalist, Andrew Pierce.
"Following last year's Jan Moir uproar, the hope was that this recent Daily Mail signing might ruffle some feathers within that bastion of fine feeling. More fools us, of course, as witnessed by his February article offering support to the Pope in the face of the "madness" of Harriet Harman's Equality Bill."
Fagburn can't argue with that.

* I'm including only the people listed as "journalist", or whose main job is writing journalism - other broadcasters, editors or occasional guest columnists are available, so please don't write in.