Rainbow List
{{short description|List of the most influential LGBT individuals in the UK}}
{{For|the ALA list of youth LGBT books|American Library Association Rainbow Book List}}
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The Rainbow List (called the Pink List until 2014) is a list of the most influential openly LGBTQ individuals in the United Kingdom, published annually in the British national newspaper The Independent on Sunday. The list was started in 2000 to recognise individuals in public life who are openly gay, but has since grown to "[honour] those who have long and brave histories of standing up for equal rights".
History
= Pink List =
The list was first published in 2000 to recognise openly gay individuals in the public sphere, and initially listed 50 people. Janet Street-Porter, then editor of the paper, wrote in 2012 that she started the list at the time "to celebrate the huge contribution [that gay people] make to every aspect of modern life".{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/why-the-pink-list-is-a-cut-above-8280475.html | title=Why The Pink List is a cut above | work=The Independent on Sunday | date=4 November 2012 | accessdate=25 November 2014 | author=Street-Porter, Janet | author-link=Janet Street-Porter }}
= Rainbow List =
The list was renamed for the 2014 edition to be "more inclusive, less old-fashioned and far less like the 'girls' aisle in a toyshop".{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-rainbow-list-2014-why-we-changed-the-name-from-the-pink-list-9774511.html | title=The Rainbow List 2014: Why we changed the name from the Pink List | work= The Independent on Sunday | date=5 October 2014 | accessdate=25 November 2014 | author=Guest, Katy}} The first edition as the Rainbow List was topped by Labour Peer and former actor Michael, Baron Cashman.{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/therainbowlist/rainbow-list-2014-1-to-100-9848457.html | title=Rainbow List 2014, 1 to 101 | work=The Independent on Sunday | date=9 November 2014 | accessdate=25 November 2014}}
Criticism
Stephen Fry criticised the list in 2010 for its portrayal of Louie Spence as a "gay stereotype", whose 15 minutes of fame was already running out.{{cite web | url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/08/11/stephen-fry-attacks-independent-on-sundays-pink-list-for-sneering-at-louie-spence/ | title=Stephen Fry attacks Independent on Sunday's Pink List for 'sneering' at Louie Spence | work=Pink News | date=11 August 2010 | accessdate=25 November 2014}}{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-pink-list-2010-2040472.html | title=The IoS Pink List 2010 | work=The Independent on Sunday | date=1 August 2010 | accessdate=25 November 2014}} Fry later stated that he had been told that the section in which Spence appeared, the "Rogue's Gallery", had been written separately by a journalist "without the deliberators' knowledge or consent."
The list has also been criticised as being unsystematic in its compilation. The Huffington Post columnist "The Guyliner" complained of the 2012 list that "[n]o complicated formulae accompany any piece about the list to tell you how this influence is calculated", and that "it is nothing more than an inventory of names".{{cite news | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/the-guyliner/independent-pink-list_b_2070725.html | title=Why the Independent's Pink List Makes Me See Red | work=The Huffington Post | date=4 November 2012 | accessdate=25 November 2014 | author=The Guyliner}}
References
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External links
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= Lists by year =
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- 2015: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/therainbowlist/rainbow-list-2015-1-to-101-a6731391.html|title=Rainbow List 2015, 1 to 101|date=15 November 2015}}
- 2014: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/therainbowlist/rainbow-list-2014-1-to-100-9848457.html|title=Rainbow List 2014, 1 to 101|date=9 November 2014}}
- 2013: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-independent-on-sundays-pink-list-2013-8876183.html|title=The Independent on Sunday's Pink List 2013|date=13 October 2013}}
- 2012: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-ios-pink-list-2012-8216187.html|title=The IoS Pink List 2012|date=4 November 2012}}
- 2011: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-ios-pink-list-2011-2374595.html|title=The IoS Pink List 2011|date=23 October 2011}}
- 2010: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-pink-list-2010-2040472.html|title=The IoS Pink List 2011|date=1 August 2010}}
- 2009:
- Article: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-pink-list-2009-1721869.html|title=The IoS Pink List 2009|date=28 June 2009}}
- Gallery: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-pink-list-2009-1721869.html?action=gallery|title=The IoS Pink List 2009}}
- 2008: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-iiosi-pink-list-2008-852032.html|title=The IoS pink list 2008|date=22 June 2009}}
- 2007: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-pink-list-2007-the-iiosi-annual-celebration-of-the-great-and-the-gay-447627.html|title=The pink list 2007: The IoS annual celebration of the great and the gay|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907103532/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-pink-list-2007-the-iiosi-annual-celebration-of-the-great-and-the-gay-447627.html|archivedate=7 September 2008|url-status=dead|date=6 May 2007}}
- 2006: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/gay-power-the-pink-list-406297.html|title=Gay Power: The pink list|date=2 July 2006}}
- 2000: {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/take-away-these-fifty-faces-and-britain-would-be-a-poorer-place-710891.html|title=Take away these fifty faces and Britain would be a poorer place|date=6 August 2000}}
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Category:Lists of British people
Category:Publications established in 2000