Previous winners of the Stonewall Bigot of the Year award include Daily Mail columnists Melanie Phillips and JanMoir, Tory MP Chris Grayling and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party MLA Iris Robinson.
In November 2009, a story by Daily Mail columnist JanMoir about the death of former Boyzone singer Stephen Gately attracted a record 25, 000 complaints to the PCC, on the grounds it was homophobic.