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Laurence Watts, a freelance journalist, and founder of the advocacy group Servicemembers United's Campaign for Military Partners, published a list at The Huffington Post that he called “The Most Powerful LGBT People on Twitter.”
Laurence left some people off of his list, so I added to his list and then re-sorted the spread sheet. Some of the obvious omissions (obvious to me) included Kara Swisher, Ross Matthews. Christian Siriano, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Louie Spence. I also added some of our straight allies that are honorary gays(from Eddie Izzard to Joan Rivers and Kylie Minogue etc). This list is totally subjective, and the additions I made to Laurence's list were my opinion, and I scrambled to find one more person to make it a list of 50 - but failed to think of one more. If you can think of a glaring omission of someone I left out, who has a twitter account, with a huge following, please let me know in the comments!
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Fortunately there is way we can compile a list of influential LGBT people that transcends national boundaries: we can use Twitter. Unlike a panel of judges, it's democratic and allows easy comparison between individuals. While not a measure of wealth, it's certainly a measure of voice, and while certain LGBT celebrities don't have Twitter accounts, it could be argued they are less influential because of it.
Here then is a list I've compiled of whom I believe to be the world's 30 most powerful LGBT people, ranked by their number of Twitter followers at the time of writing.
Laurence left some people off of his list, so I added to his list and then re-sorted the spread sheet. Some of the obvious omissions (obvious to me) included Kara Swisher, Ross Matthews. Christian Siriano, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Louie Spence. I also added some of our straight allies that are honorary gays(from Eddie Izzard to Joan Rivers and Kylie Minogue etc). This list is totally subjective, and the additions I made to Laurence's list were my opinion, and I scrambled to find one more person to make it a list of 50 - but failed to think of one more. If you can think of a glaring omission of someone I left out, who has a twitter account, with a huge following, please let me know in the comments!
If you have a blog and want to use the graphics, feel free. Just give proper credit s.v.p.
Here is Laurence's original List.
This is my list, with my subjective additions.
What do you think?
