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The stars aligned in Hollywood on Wednesday, December 11, at the 2024 Out100, proudly sponsored by Lexus, celebrating those within the LGBTQ+ community who have made the world a safer, more inclusive, and more affirming place in the past year.
Icon of the Year honoree Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), trans SNL writer and comedian Harper Steele (Will and Harper), and others from the LGBTQ+ glitterati gathered to send a powerful message while looking good and having fun.
Keep scrolling to see all the Out100 honorees and the LGBTQ+ difference-makers at the Out100, proudly sponsored by Lexus. And to see the full list of this year's honorees, click here!
Ricky Cornish and Nina West
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Ricky Cornish shares a giggle with Nina West (Drag Queen and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Educators)
Cynthia Erivo and Law Roach
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Cynthia Erivo (Actress Wicked, Icon of the Year, and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Artists) and Law Roach (Fashion Stylist and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Disruptors)
Margaret Cho
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Margaret Cho (Comedian and Actress Fire Island and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Artists)
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Cynthia Erivo (Actress Wicked, Icon of the Year, and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Artists) accepting Out100 Icon of the Year award from Daniel Reynolds (Editor-in-Chief Out Magazine)with Renee Rapp in the background.
Tracy E. Gilchrist
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Tracy E. Gilchrist (VP, Editorial & Special Projects, equalpride)
Chris Perfetti, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Lisa Ann Walter
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Chris Perfetti (Actor Abbott Elementary, Advocate of the Year), Sheryl Lee Ralph (Advocate of the Year), and Lisa Ann Walter (Advocate of the Year)
Orville Peck
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Orville Peck
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Karla Sofia Gascón (Actor Emilia Perez and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Groundbreakers) and Stephen Walker (Host The Advocate Channel)
Olivia Hill Nashville Metro Council At-Large being interviewed by Ricky Cornish
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Olivia Hill (Nashville Metro Council At-Large and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Groundbreakers) being interviewed by Ricky Cornish
Nava Mau and Oliver Peck
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Nava Mau Nava Mau (Actress Baby Reindeer and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Disruptors) and Oliver Peck
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Vincint from behind speaking to Kevin McHale and Ricky Cornish
Trixie Mattel
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Trixie Mattel (Drag Queen, DJ, Entrepreneur, Hotelier, and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Innovators)
Sheryl Lee Ralph and guest
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Sheryl Lee Ralph (Advocate of the Year) and guest
Kylie Chi and Katy O'Brian
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Kylie Chi and Katy O’Brian (Actor Love Lies Bleeding and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Artists)
Miss Benny and Matt Bernstein
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Benny (Actress Glamorous) and Bernstein (Makeup Artist and Activist)
Gigi Goode, Nymphia Wind, and Symone
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Gigi Goode (Drag Queen RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12), Nymphia Wind (Winner RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16 and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Artists), and Symone (Drag Queen RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 Winner).
Vincint (center) with dancers
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Vincint flanked by dancers
Nava Mau
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Nava Mau (Actress Baby Reindeer and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Disruptors
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Renee Rapp presenting Out100 Icon of the Year award
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Renee Rapp (Singer/Songwriter, Actress Mean Girls, Icon of the Year, and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Disruptors) presenting the Out100 Icon of the Year award
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Cynthia Erivo
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Cynthia Erivo (Actress Wicked, Icon of the Year, and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Artists) accepts the Out100 Icon of the Year award
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Harper Steele (Writer and Comedian SNL, Will & Harper, and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Disruptors)
Trixie Mattel
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Trixie Mattel (Drag Queen, DJ, Entrepreneur, Hotelier, and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Innovators
Karla Sofia Gascón
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Karla Sofia Gascón (Actor Emilia Perez and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Groundbreakers
Sheryl Lee Ralph
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Sheryl Lee Ralph (Advocate of the Year)
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Sheryl Lee Ralph accepting Advocate of the year award presenter Desirée Guerrero in background
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Cynthia Erivo (Actress Wicked, Icon of the Year, and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Artists) being greeted by Chris Perfetti (Actor Abbott Elementary, Advocate of the Year) and Lisa Ann Walter (Advocate of the Year)
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Vincint performing
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Vincint entertains the crowd
Dexter Mayfield dancing
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Dexter Mayfield (Internet Personality)
Vincint performs
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Vincint performs
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Party guest and Carissa Rae Martin
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Party guest and Carissa Rae Martin
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Cynthia Erivo (Actress Wicked, Icon of the Year, and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Artists) and Vincint
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Lena Waithe and guest
Bruce Vilanch arrives in a Lexus
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Bruce Vilanch arrives in a Lexus
Cynthia Erivo and Renee Rapp
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Cynthia Erivo (Actress Wicked, Icon of the Year, and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Artists) and Reneé Rapp (Singer/Songwriter, Actress Mean Girls, Icon of the Year, and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Disruptors)
Nymphia Wind and Gigi Goode
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Nymphia Wind (Winner RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16 and 2024 Out100 Honoree – Artists) and Gigi Goode (Drag Queen RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12)
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11 times J.K. Rowling did something wildly transphobic, ranked
J.K. Rowling attends day four of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse on June 20, 2025 in Ascot, England.
This story originally appeared on Out.
For almost a decade now, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been spreading transphobia and has become the poster child for the UK’s troubling movement of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). She has gone on transphobic tirades on social media, written a nearly 4,000-word anti-trans manifesto, donated some of her fortune to anti-trans causes, regularly misgenders trans women, and gleefully celebrates every time the transgender community has their rights stripped away.
The author, once revered for creating an inclusive fantasy world where good triumphs over evil, let her LGBTQ+ fans down by consistently doubling down on her transphobic rhetoric. She has painted trans women as predators who are lying about their gender to take away women’s rights and enter women’s spaces under false pretenses. This dangerous vitriol has even caused many of the stars of the Harry Potter franchise to come forward and call her out for her anti-trans takes.
For queer and trans fans of Harry Potter, this abrupt turn was jarring and has undermined their love of a fictional world where marginalized groups are loved and fought for. But Rowling hasn’t just disappointed her fans by spreading her hateful views; she’s also done so in some of the most bizarre ways, leaving many people not just outraged, but scratching their heads.
11. Tone deaf Dolly Parton tribute
Rowling joined the world in mourning Dolly Parton by posting a tribute on X that backfired when the country music legend’s fans came out in droves to point out that Parton loved the LGBTQ+ community and wouldn’t have supported Rowling’s TERF views.
After Parton fans flooded Rowling’s comment section with messages like, “She certainly would have thought of you as a nasty, hateful woman. Nice little tweet though,” Rowling attempted to hit back after a user called her “a fucking monster” by posting, “Well, joke’s on you, because neither of us want Jolene to take our man.”
10. Accidentally wrote “f*ck up some TERFs” on a child’s drawing
Seemingly by mistake, Rowling replied to post on X about a nine-year-old kid’s drawing of Ickabog, a monster from her children’s book, by including text she likely meant to copy and paste elsewhere.
“I love this truly fabulous Ickabog, with its bat ears, mismatched eyes, and terrifying bloodstained teeth! In court, Wolf claimed the Facebook post in which he’d said he wanted to ‘f*** up some TERFs’ was just ‘bravado’. #TheIckabog.”
Internet sleuths figured out that in the post, Rowling was misgendering Tara Wolf, a trans woman accused of assaulting Maria MacLachlan, who was at an anti-trans protest in 2017.
9. Accused Olympic boxer Imane Khelif of being trans
When Algerian boxer Imane Khelif took home gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Rowling joined fellow wealthy bigot Elon Musk in spreading the rumor that the cisgender boxer was secretly a man, leaning hard into the ever-present transphobia and anti-intersex hate in women's sports.
Even after both Rowling and Musk were named in a criminal complaint filed with French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment,” Rowling refused to let it go and continued to post anti-trans posts accusing Khelif of lying about her gender.
8. Transvestigated another athlete
Less than five months after harassing Olympic boxer Imane Khelif for supposedly being trans, Rowling joined in on another transvestigation of a woman in sports when she accused cisgender Zambian soccer player Barbra Banda of secretly being a man — she is not.
Rowling took exception to the BBC naming Banda the 2024 Women’s Footballer of the Year. “Presumably the BBC decided this was more time efficient than going door to door to spit directly in women's faces," Rowling wrote on X.
7. Smoked a cigar to celebrate being a TERF
After donating £70,000 (roughly $88,200) to the anti-trans group For Women Scotland in 2024 to help them fight against a 2018 Scottish law that legally recognized trans women as women, Rowling celebrated in a ghoulish way when the U.K. Supreme Court decided that trans women aren’t considered women under the nation’s Equality Act.
Rowling responded to the court decision by posting a photo of herself with a drink in one hand and smoking a cigar with the other. While people like right-wing commentator Megyn Kelly commented “God bless you,” the post was also full of people slamming her for her cruelty in the face of people having their rights taken away. Pedro Pascal even called her out for doing “Voldemort villain s---" and referred to Rowling as a "heinous loser."
6. Accidentally turned herself into a meme
Rowling accidentally turned herself into a meme when she changed her profile pic on X to a photo that showed what looked like black mold-covered walls inside her mansion.
While the photo most likely shows wallpaper and not mold, users ran with it and began joking that the black mold had infected her brain as an explanation for her hateful anti-trans views.
5. Whined about being doxxed
On the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance in 2021, comedian Holly Stars, actor Georgia Frost and drag king Richard Energy protested Rowling’s anti-trans views by staging a demonstration and posting a photo holding signs in front of the author’s home near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Rowling took exception to her house numbers being visible in the photo and accused the “actor activists” of “doxxing” her in an eight-tweet rant on X. But is it doxxing if the information is already public? Rowling claimed she received “so many death threats I could paper the house with them,” but both of her residences are historical landmarks, and one even has its own Wikipedia page.
4. Wrote a transphobic character that sounds an awful lot like herself
Under her pen name Robert Galbraith, Rowling wrote The Ink Black Heart, where a character gets harassed and doxxed because of their transphobic and racist views.
Rowling claimed that the character wasn’t based on her own experience, despite Rolling Stone writing that the character is doxxed “with photos of her home plastered on the internet” and subjected “to death and rape threats for having an opinion,” which probably sounds pretty familiar to people who have been following the author’s anti-trans outbursts.
3. Called David Tennant the "gender Taliban"
Rowling called Harry Potter actor David Tennant and people like him the “gender Taliban” in a post on X after he spoke out at the British LGBT Awards, where he called transgender critics “a tiny bunch of little whinging f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon” and said they are on the “wrong side of history.”
In response, Rowling leaned into hateful anti-trans rhetoric that conflates being transgender with being an abuser of women. “This man is talking about rape survivors who want female-only care, the nurses currently suing their health trust for making them change in front of a man, girls and women losing sporting opportunities to males and female prisoners incarcerated with convicted sex offenders,” she wrote.
2. Dared police to arrest her
Rowling spoke out against Scotland’s new hate crime act in 2024 by daring police to arrest her for misgendering trans women. The act criminalizes “stirring up hatred” regarding age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and variations in sex characteristics, which can result in a fine or a seven-year prison sentence.
Rowling then went on a lengthy tirade on X — something she is known for at this point — where she accused lawmakers of protecting trans women at the expense of “the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls.” She finished by telling the police to come and arrest her if what she wrote “qualifies as an offense” under the new law. “I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment,” she wrote.
1. Posted an upskirt photo
Rowling, who claims to be a protector of women and rails against trans women being allowed in women’s restrooms, targeted a transgender British podcaster who she disagrees with by posting an upskirt photo of her. Freda Wallace became Rowling’s latest target when she refused to engage with the transphobe online.
Rowling responded by misgendering Wallace and posting a photo of her originally taken by anti-trans activist and fellow transphobe Maya Forstater, from slightly below Wallace to show her upper thigh. Rowling said that Wallace refused to debate her but to prove she has “no hard feelings” she posted the photo of another debate. “I hear he left an indelible impression on the audience. And the chair,” Rowling wrote.