The Most Powerful LGBT People on Twitter

Everyone loves a good list: the Forbes 400 ranks America’s richest people, Ebony‘s Power 100 ranks the most powerful African Americans, and Time‘s Time 100 ranks the world’s most influential people. Though members of the gay community can and do feature on these lists, we nevertheless like to compile our own from time to time.

On Oct. 23 Britain’s Independent published its annual Pink List of prominent gay men and women. With the last of OUT Magazine‘s OUT 100 published around a year ago, it seems reasonable to assume another one can’t be too far away. The problem with such lists is they are inevitably subjective. How do you really measure power or influence and rank people on that basis? Compounding this problem, Britain’s Pink List has taken political correctness one step too far and now deliberately excludes the likes of George Michael, Elton John and Ian McKellen in favour of “unsung heroes.” This seems to me to be the equivalent of the Time 100 omitting Barack Obama because the Leader of the Free World features too regularly for its liking.   Read More