Pink Professions

Using the people represented in the History Project's 541 Famous LGBT Faces Powerpoint presentation, we have come up with the following completely unscientific listing of the "pinkest" professions.

1.   Writer (includes novelist and playwright)

2.   Actor

3.   Singer

4.   Politician

5.   King (or Queen)

6.   Composer

7.   Poet

8.   Comedian

9.   Film director/producer

10. Tennis player (but only one male)

11. Dancer 

12. Olympic athlete

13. Musician

14. Fashion designer

15. TV "personality"

16. Philosopher

17. Skater (all men)

18. Scientist

19. Footballer (includes American football, whatever that is)

20. Cartoon character

21. Entrepreneur/businessman/woman

22. Golfer (all women)

23. Hockey player

24. Choreographer

25. Journalist

26. Soldier

27. Drag act

28. Murder victim (not perhaps a "profession" of choice)

29. Gangster

30. Architect

31. Baseball player

32. Interior designer 

33. Concentration camp survivor (see 28)

34. Magician

35. Eccentric

36. Model

37. Hero

38. God (not that one)

39. Economist

40. Porn star (so few - though this is famous faces)

41. Outlaw

42. Cyclist

43. Professor

44. Astrologer

45. Native American (how PC not to say Red Indian ... ooops)

46. Cowgirl

47. Nazi

48. Saint

49. Spy

50. Police officer

51. Sex-change pioneer

52. Serial killer

53. Nurse

54. Boxer

55. Suffragette

56. Astronaut

57. Boy scouter

58. Pope

59. Imam

60. Bishop

61. Cardinal

62. Rabbi

.... and not a hairdresser in sight.