How to be an “A” list gay- according to the Sunday Times
The Sunday Times, the long-time bastion for middle class home counties readers, has produced its own guide to being a gay celebrity in 2006.
It claims that the gay glitterati can be split into three camps, the “Business A lists”, the “Party A lists” and the “Hip A lists”.
Surprisingly, they didn’t include reading PinkNews.co.uk as being a characteristic of the “Business A lists.” The most recent internal survey of access statistics for the website found that over 8% of readers of PinkNews.co.uk work as either civil servants or as policy advisers to political parties. And that over 30% of readers access us from their work computers at blue chip companies.
From the Sunday Times:
Characteristics of the Business A list
Knows Alan Duncan
Has slept with Ivan Massow
Kelly Clarkson Recognises her on MTV Hits
Is on first-name terms with The assistants at Gieves Hawkes
Madonna Bought Confessions on a Dancefloor
Reads Matthew Parris
Celebrity Big Brother- voted for Rula Lenska
Dirty pleasure- Alan Sugar
Likes Liberty-print boxers; Saturday afternoons at Borough market; holidays in Bhutan with long term b/f and colleagues; Will Young; Creme de la Mer Love and marriage Secretly wants children and is having a civil partnership with reception at Claridge’s; invites will be Smythson and the grooms will be dressed in Prada
Who Brian Paddick, Waheed Ali, Andrew Sullivan, Charlie Parsons, Guy Black
Characteristics of the Party A list
Knows Janet Street-Porter
Has slept with Matthew Williamson
Kelly Clarkson Loves her
Is on first-name terms with The doormen at the Shadow Lounge
Madonna Bought Hung Up (the remixes)
Celebrity Big Brother- Voted for Michael Barrymore
Dirty pleasure- Mark from Westlife
Likes Acid-pink American Apparel briefs; Sunday afternoons at Spitalfields market; holidaying in Ibiza with the Pet Shop Boys; Scissor Sisters; Botox Love and marriage Is secretly relieved he doesn’t have to have children, but is still smarting from not being invited to Elton’s wedding
Who Patrick Cox, Matt Lucas, David Collins, Jasper Conran, Jeremy Sheffield, Kim Jones
Characteristics of the Hip A list
Knows Wolfgang Tillmans
Has slept with Terry Richardson’s assistant (“First assistant!”)
Kelly Clarkson Is at the advanced stages of that deadly earnest Kelly-is-the-new-Kylie diatribe
Is on first-name terms with The buyers at B Store
Madonna Hates anything after the first album
Celebrity Big Brother- Hates all reality TV (voted for Pete Burns without telling anyone)
Dirty pleasure- Shayne from the X Factor
Likes Bernard Wilhelm Y-fronts; Monday afternoons at Dover Street Market; doing Antwerp for the shopping; Antony and the Johnsons; Raf Simons
Love and marriage Is in long-term therapy to erase deeply held resentment brought on by torment of own childhood in small Northern/Scottish village with non verbal parents
Who Roland Mouret, Gareth Pugh, Guido Palau, Johnny Woo, Alexander McQueen, Gilbert George
https://www.sundaytimes.co.uk
