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NAVA MAU @navamau Nava Mau made Emmys history this year as the first transgender woman nominated in the category of Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series. She was recognized for her Baby Reindeer role of Teri, the main character’s love interest who happens to be trans. In a story with messy characters, Teri had her life together. And Mau was hailed for bringing heart to one of the year’s biggest shows. Baby Reindeer is “about the human condition. It’s about the way that we seek to belong with each other. And I never thought of [Baby Reindeer] necessarily as a queer show,” says Mau, who previously appeared in Max’s Generation. “It is a human show. And I think the nature of what we’ve been fighting for is to be…

TRISTAN SCHUKRAFT @tschukraft Following in the footsteps of Virgin mogul (and role model) Richard Branson, Tristan Schukraft is known as the “CEO of Everything Gay” for good reason. This year alone, the business mogul bought The Abbey, the iconic gay bar in West Hollywood; Puerto Rico’s Circo nightclub; and a 75 percent stake in the Fire Island Pines Resort commercial district. He also launched Tryst Hotels, with properties set to open in San Juan, Puerto Vallarta, and the Pines. Additionally, Schukraft is the CEO of MISTR, a PrEP telemedicine company that recently surpassed 350,000 patients. It’s this milestone that his been his proudest 2024 accomplishment. “I’m motivated not so much about building businesses. While that’s fun, it’s about…eliminating HIV, preserving the gay community. That’s what gets me up in the…

RON NYSWANER @ronnyswaner Three decades ago, when the Out100 first launched, Philadelphia premiered in theaters and changed the world for LGBTQ+ representation. The film starring Tom Hanks as an attorney fired for his gay identity and HIV status earned writer and activist Ron Nyswaner an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. It marked just the beginning of Nyswaner’s stellar career as a gay storyteller. Another Hollywood gamechanger from the Pennsylvania native? Fellow Travelers, the Showtime drama that recounted decades of LGBTQ+ history through the eyes of gay lovers: Hawk (Matt Bomer) and Tim (Jonathan Bailey). McCarthyism, disco, the AIDS crisis — it’s all there, along with some of the steamiest, most authentic queer sex ever aired on TV. Nyswaner is proud to use storytelling to spark empathy. As he would…

BY THE TIME this issue reaches mailboxes and newsstands, the presidential election will be mere days away. The Advocate editors officially express our support of Kamala Harris for president of the United States. Harris, the Democratic nominee, is exponentially better on every issue than her Republican opponent, Donald Trump — issues including reproductive freedom, the economy, and climate change. But our endorsement focuses on her LGBTQ+ rights record, which is stellar, and what she promises to do in that realm as president. Her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is a strong LGBTQ+ ally too, something that certainly cannot be said of Trump’s vice-presidential pick, U.S. Sen. JD Vance. Harris, originally a prosecuting attorney, first held public office as district attorney for San Francisco City and County, to which she…

Chella Man 25, they/them IG @chellaman Multihyphenate and multitalented artist, director, and educator Chella Man has continued to wow us with their work in various mediums — including painting, sculpture, writing, performance, film, tattooing, and curating. As a deaf, nonbinary, Chinese-Jewish person, Man has experienced being othered for much of their life and seeks to help change attitudes through their work. In addition to their critically acclaimed performance piece Autonomy, which aims to shatter “the constraints of binary thinking” and celebrate “queer, disabled, and trans bodies,” the Jewish Museum in NYC featured an art installation by Man this year. The Frieze New York also recently featured their art film, The Device That Turned Me Into a Cyborg Was Born the Same Year I Was. Nikki Hiltz 30, they/them IG @nikkihiltz…

Afterward, I was sitting in our tiny office in the student center with a rainbow flag on the door and issues of Out and The Advocate on the table. I understood in that moment the great power of media to move hearts and minds — and of erasure to silence marginalized voices. I’d had enough. I opened my laptop and wrote my own damn article about the rally and then hijacked a campus copy machine to print a few hundred copies. My fearless GSA members and I were up all night inserting the coverage into every issue of the morning paper. Today, I have the great honor of staging another LGBTQ+ gathering in the very magazine that once inspired 20-year-old me to action. This is the 30th anniversary of the…

JAYMES BLACK @thejaymesblack The Trevor Project — a national suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ youth — tapped Jaymes Black this year to helm the group’s vital work. Black (he/she/they) is Trevor’s first Black and first nonbinary CEO. A former CEO of Family Equality who grew up in the rural South, they bring both an impressive résumé and lived experience to tackling the daunting challenges faced by today’s queer and trans kids. “To be in this role, to be who I needed when I was [a] young queer Black awkward kid in Texas, is…another dream come true,” they say. Bullies manifest on the playground and in the political world. But through it all, Black is inspired by how many young people live openly and proudly, a resilience that…

TOM DALEY @tomdaley It will be hard to imagine an Olympics without Tom Daley. Only 30, the English diver retired this year after representing Great Britain on the world stage since 2008. The Paris Olympics marked a bright capstone to his career: He took home silver in synchronized 10m platform (adding to a career collection of three bronze and one gold). His husband, Dustin Lance Black, and their sons, Robbie and Phoenix Rose, were in Paris that day, and to “have them there cheering on in the audience was pretty special,” Daley says of the year’s highlight. Since Daley came out in a 2013 YouTube video, he has used his diving platform to represent the LGBTQ+ community. “I think the most important thing is to just be visible, and be…

IF CANDY DARLING were still with us, she would celebrate her 80th birthday this November. But the trailblazing actress died of lymphoma at age 29 in March 1974. Now, 50 years after her death, there’s renewed interest in this trans changemaker’s story with a new book and an upcoming biopic. Darling, who was born in Queens, N.Y., became one of Andy Warhol’s most notable “Superstars,” the name for his entourage of artists and performers, many of whom were queer and/or gender-nonconforming. She met the renowned pop artist Warhol in 1967 and is immortalized in his art films Flesh and Women in Revolt. Warhol wasn’t the only one who saw Darling as a muse. The blond beauty was a mainstay in the New York art scene and inspired many other popular…

MARGARET CHO @margaret_cho Margaret Cho is a comedy and entertainment legend. Career highlights, from her 1994 ABC show All-American Girl to 2022’s Fire Island, represent victories against what she considers her greatest hurdle, which is the invisibility of people like her in the media. “As a queer Asian-American woman, you just never saw yourself reflected back in entertainment or anywhere,” she shares. “And so, to really come from nothing and to create a space from nothing was a really huge achievement.” The 2024 Netflix documentary Outstanding shows Cho’s significant role in the history of LGBTQ+ comedy, an art form that has also engendered greater equality. And Cho continues to use her platform to advocate for trans kids and causes that support the LGBTQ+ movement. “The accomplishment that I’m most proud…

talent CYNTHIA ERIVO @cynthiaerivo photographer ERIK CARTER @erik_carter with ANDERSON HOPKINS @andersonhopkins digital tech JOSEPH MITCHELL #joemitchell first assistant NICOL BIESEK @nicolb.jpg second assistant SCOTT TURNER @switttch_ set stylist GABRIELA COBAR @gabriela_cobar set assistant A.J. BUCKNALL stylist JASON BOLDEN @jasonbolden at JSN STUDIO @jsn.studio stylist assistant JOHN MUMBLO @johnmumblo grooming JOANNA SIMKIN @joannasimkin at THE WALL GROUP @thewallgroup videographer MIGUEL TORRES location INTERWOVEN STUDIOS @interwoven_studios [WICKED] INTRINSICALLY IS ABOUT…THE ACCEPTANCE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE DIFFERENT, WHETHER IT IS WALK OF LIFE OR THE COLOR OF ONE’S SKIN OR THE POWER A PERSON HOLDS THAT MIGHT BE DIFFERENT TO YOUR OWN. There’s a 1963 photo of James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry dancing. Baldwin’s arms are outstretched, his head cocked to the side. Hansberry glances at him, cradling a cigarette. It’s a…