Rainbow List 2015: Sake

 

A well deserved winner!

Fagburn's favourite of this completely made-up tokentistic list of LGBTIQXX* non-entites was but of course...

Not sure if this dreamboat is trans or intersex, but hey! let's throw them all together!

The tragedy is you get the impression no-one at the Independent has realised what a joke this list is.

Time to finally put it out of its misery next year?

Independent On Sunday: From The Message Boards...

The Independent On Sunday is bigging up its 14th annual Pink List, and running extracts from a new book of "celebrity coming out stories", It's OK To Be Gay.

Is it?

Let's see what some of the readers of one Britain's leading liberal newspapers have to say...

Well, you've all given us lots to think about there, thank you.
And how kind of the publicity-shy Peter Tatchell to keep reminding his legions of adoring followers on Twitter to vote in the Pink List.
Fagburn wonders if Peter just possibly had anyone particular in mind?

Pink List 2011: All Apologies

We said that compiling the Pink List is an inexact science, and readers, in their many comments, some of which are published here, agreed. Owing to an administrative blunder too low-fi to go into, one of the most influential gay men of this century, Peter Tatchell, was forgotten. It's not as if he's had a quiet year: in 2011, he co-ordinated the Equal Love campaign which helped persuade the Government to commit to same-sex marriage; lobbied the Commonwealth to call for LGBT human rights; and successfully campaigned for an end to the blanket, lifetime ban on gay blood donors. Kindly, Mr Tatchell has accepted our apology. "I am not much fussed by my omission," he said. "It is pleasing to see many previously little-known and unsung LGBT people on the list." Nonetheless, Peter, we are sorry.

The Independent On Sunday.
They then proceed to print some of the most boring letters ever sent;
"Great to see the Pink List again, but why no Hope Powell? She took the England women's football team to the World Cup finals, and has just been appointed to lead the Great Britain women's team to the Olympics... rather influential, I'd think."
It's what we were all thinking.
Jolly hockey sticks!

• Painting of Peter by Vince Laws.

Independent On Sunday: From The Message Boards

"Britain in the pink?
"What total rubbish, and who, exactly did your poll talk to - probably the guilt-ridden loony left who are all over these pages espousing their 'minority rules' ideas.
"Try a poll of a month ago in the UK that was much clearer: Over 70% are against gay marriages and this incessant push from a loudmouthed minority. The vast majority are conservative (with a small c), family orientated heterosexual.
"No we don't support your ideas or their cause. Marriage is between a man and a woman, aimed to grow the human race. The disgusting, depraved lifestyles of gays should be put back in their closet.
"Don't employ them, don't invite them into your home (I don't and wouldn't) - and make sure they know they are in the minority and wrong, and out of step with 'normal' lifestyles.
"Don't like the comment, you gay lovers? It's called freedom of speech, and no, thankfully I don't live in p**f loving london, or UK, circa 2011."

"Pedrowe" - writing in response to an IoS editorial, Britain Is In The Pink, accompanying the Pink List 2011.
"The poll of a month ago" he cites was a Daily Mail fiction.
Strange a moderator let this comment through - though I kind of like seeing the thoughts of homophobes who are utterly nutty and hateful published.
Probably helps us and "the cause".
And acts as a reminder that everything in the gay garden isn't rosy.

The Independent: The Pink List 2011!

"The Independent on Sunday's annual Pink List returns next month, celebrating the 101 most influential lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women in Britain...
"This year, then, we would like to ask for your help. Do you know an unsung champion whose work promotes real progress and equality in this country? Is there someone whose name should be celebrated alongside national treasures such as Sir Ian McKellen, Alan Bennett, Sue Perkins and Jeanette Winterson? We want you to let us know."

It's gotta be Johann Hari!

Philip Treacy: The Twat With The Hats

Many papers have profiled milliner Philip Treacy after that stupid royal wedding and that stupid hat he designed that was worn by that stupid stupid Princess Whatevershescalled.
Today's Sunday Times informs its readers that Mr Treacy's hats cost "between £300 and £2,000", and that "in 2006 he was declared by The Independent to be one of the most influential gay figures in Britain."
In what possible fucking way is he influential for the sake of fucking fuck??!!
Fagburn hereby declares that Philip Treacy is The Most Pointless Gay Man In Britain.
And I hope this will be the end of this matter.
Thank you.