Publicists, editors, and readers submitted thousands of names of exceptional LGBTQ+ folks from around the globe. Were there but world enough and time, the Out100 could easily have been the Out1000 (or Out10000), which is truly a boon for our community. There really are so many amazing people out there doing amazing things!
First, let’s acknowledge the truly passionate fan base of Atypical star Brigette Lundy-Paine (above photo by Toni Smalls); they received hundreds of submissions alone! Lundy-Paine was on the list last year — a general (sometimes broken) rule is that we don’t repeat names. Otherwise, the nonbinary figure would certainly have been included. Fans of Bry’nt, Etcetera Etcetera, Genuwine Beauty, Solomon Ray, and Adaline also rallied to put forward the names of these artists by the dozens, and…