Your 10 Hottest Women of Color

This is not meant as a criticism of the present list because I realize not everyone can be included and obviously a lot of work and effort went into the list. Overall, I think its pretty good and I'm glad to see the vloggers being appreciated. But I was very disappointed by the lack of women of color on the list. And a number of people felt this way as well, judging by the comments on the list. And a couple of people mentioned that there were actually more women of color on the Maxim list than the AE list, which is very disappointing since we pride ourselves on being more diverse, aware and enlightened.

I think 18 women of color is very disappointing and that's why I wanted to start a forum topic asking you who your top 10 hottest women of color are. They can be people mentioned on the list or people who you think should have been part of the list. Double points if they are out lesbian/bi women or have played a lesbian/bi character because there seems to be so few of them. And I know if I knew more lesbian/bi/gay friendly women of color when growing up coming out would have been much easier for me.

Another reason for having this thread is because just like lesbian/bi visibility is important, so similarly it is extra important to have lesbian/bi women of color coverage because we get so little of it in mainstream media and LGBT publications. We did, however, do better than afterelton.com as they only had 9 people of color on their list.

Ok here are my top 10, what are yours? Some of these have been mentioned on the hot 100 but i couldn't really think of too many other lesbian/bi/gay friendly women of color. And that's why we need more visibility.

Top 10 out of the women of color mentioned in the list

1. Jennifer Beals (The L word)

2. Sara Ramirez (bi character on Grey's anatomy)

3. Sarah Shahi ( The L word)

4. Jenn (AE vloggers)

5. Dara Nai (vlogger)

6. Rose Rollins (The L word)

7. Michelle Rodriguez 

8. Padma Lakshmi

9. Grace Park

10. Sandrah Oh

 Top 10 not mentioned

1. Ebony Haith (out lesbian on Top Model a couples of seasons ago.)

2. Kerry Washington (She Hate me)

3. Jenny Shimizu

4. Dee (AE vloggers)

5. America Ferrera

6. Parmindra Nagra (Girl of color actress on Bend it like Beckham- had a lesbian/bi theme sort of)

7. Michelle Kruseic (Saving Face) -potentially be bi

8. Lynn Chen (Saving Face) - potentially could be bi

9. Lisa Ray (Played a lesbian in  The World Unseen, I can't think Straight)

10. Shelly Conn ( Played lesbian character on Nina's Heavenly delights, and a woman experimenting with her sexuality on Mistresses.)