NEW YORK CITY: At The Out 100 Party

Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims and boyfriend Brandon McMullin were among the gay glitterati in attendance at last night's Out 100 party at Stage 48 in Hell's Kitchen. Also seen above are Out 100 honorees Freedom To Marry head Evan Wolfson with his husband Cheng He, journalist Chris Geidner, Liz Margolies, founder of the National LGBT Cancer Network, and her trans activist husband Scout, director of LGBT Health Link. Orange Is The New Black actress Lea DeLaria hosted and pop singer Mary Lambert was among the performers. I hung out for a bit with NYC Councilman Corey Johnson and Dan Pepitone (above) and caught glimpses of Jason Collins and Zachary Quinto, but didn't get a chance to grab a photo, dammit.

COVERS: The 2014 Out 100

Out Magazine Unveils 2014 Out 100 List

Out Magazine has unveiled this year's Out 100 list. The 2014 ranking features Buzzfeed's Chris Geidner (seated above) and New York Times writer Josh Barro (third from left.) Others on the list are Dan Savage, Larry Kramer, Andy Bell, Armistead Maupin, Jason Collins, Richard Chamberlain, Carmen Carrera, and the cast of Looking.  See the full list.

Michelangelo Signorile Named To Out 100

Out Magazine is teasing out the names on their 18th annual ranking of the most 100 influential LGBT Americans. In the first batch of names is my pal and SiriusXM host, Michelangelo Signorile. Our congrats to Mike!  Hit the link for more names.

COVER SHOT: The Out 100 Of 2010

Out Magazine sends us the cover for the 16th annual Out 100 issue.

Entertainer of the Year — Ricky Martin: “I am Hispanic, and I am a gay man, and they both struggle. Is it a big responsibility? It can be as big as I want it to be,” Martin tells Out. Embracing both fatherhood and new status as a gay role model, Martin, who opens up in his new memoir, Me, looks forward to teaching his twin boys acceptance and love and a day when he proudly walks them down the red carpet!

Diva of the Year — Johnny Weir: “Every little boy should be so lucky as to turn into me,” Weir declared unapologetically after two Canadian broadcasters suggested he undergo a “gender test” during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. With his flair for flamboyance and commitment to glamour, Weir never shies away from controversy—or pageantry.

Artist of the Year — Julianne Moore: “I don’t think a movie like The Kids Are All Right could be made if this wasn’t the way that families are living today all over the United States,” Moore states. The actress, a four-time Oscar nominee, began her activism some 25 years ago after her first experience with what would become the AIDS pandemic.

Newsmaker of the Year — Rachel Maddow: Growing up in the time of the AIDS pandemic gave Maddow a compelling perspective on the state of gay activism, especially now in the age of Obama. “We continue to have a sort of lackadaisical gay political movement that has a relationship with Democrat politicians that doesn’t serve gay rights: ‘We want to be close to you.’ Beautiful! But if we’re not getting anything for that, then it’s actually counterproductive.”

Stylemaker of the Year – Nate Berkus: Oprah protégé Berkus recently became the first openly gay man to host a daily nationally syndicated television show, and the guru is not taking that responsibility lightly. “Having a daily show is an opportunity for me not to push a political agenda, but to speak out for tolerance and understanding and equality,” he notes.

Pam Spaulding Makes Out 100 List

Popular progressive blogger Pam Spaulding has been named to this year's Out Magazine list of LGBT movers and shakers, the Out 100. Via Pam, here's this year's complete list of honorees with links to their stories in Out. Congratulations, Pam! And I see several JMG regulars on that list, congrats to them as well!

• • Adam Lambert
  • Wanda Sykes
  • Rob Marshall
  • Dan Choi
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • Christopher Bailey
  • Neil Patrick Harris
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Gavin Creel
  • Kelly McGillis
  • John Glover
  • Marc Cherry
  • Barney Frank
  • Tammy Baldwin
  • Jared Polis
  • Lee Daniels
  • Terence Davies
  • Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Felice Picano
  • Edmund White
  • Andrew Holleran
  • Tony Kushner
  • Chris Hughes
  • Robert Longbottom
  • Arthur Laurents
  • Will Young
  • Scott Evans
  • Adamo Ruggerio
  • Paul Rudnick
  • Mark Doty
  • Nick Burd
  • Sarah Waters
  • Tasha Tilberg
• • Pam Spaulding
  • Arjan Timmermans
  • Thomas Glave
  • Vestal McIntyre
  • Moisês Kaufman
  • James Neiley
  • Brad Goreski
  • Jónsi Birgisson
  • Alex Somers
  • Erin Mckeon
  • Josh David
  • Charles Renfro
  • Robert Hammond
  • Philip Keene
  • Wendy Melvoin
  • Jon Ginoli
  • Lisa Coleman
  • Matt Alber
  • Janis Ian
  • Guido
  • Kehinde Wiley
  • Bebe Zahara Benet
  • Mirah
  • Matt Morris
  • Chaz Bono
  • Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Ilene Chaiken
  • Bryan Safi
  • Cat Cora
  • Anthony Woods
  • Isis King Liz Brixius
  • Linda Wallem
  • Sarah Schulman
• • Helen Molesworth
  • Molly Schiot
  • Tim Palen
  • Ongina
  • Liz Spayd
  • Kerry Eleveld
  • Cathy Renna
  • Elizabeth Streb
  • Christopher Sieber
  • Nick Cave
  • Malindo Lo
  • Frank Bruni
  • Ash Fulk
  • Jean-Marc Houmard
  • Stacy Shane
  • Jon Marans
  • Jonathan Silverstein
  • Micharl Urie
  • Jordan Roth
  • Kim Stolz
  • Fred Davie
  • Assi Azar
  • Tina Landau
  • Chad Griffin
  • Maurico Padilha
  • Roger Padilha
  • Thakoon Panichgul
  • Joe Zee
  • Tina Mabry
  • Michael Sucsy
  • Matt Tyrnauer
  • The Hetrick-Martin Institute and Harvey Milk High School

The Out 100 Awards

Friday night I attended the Out 100 Awards at Gotham Hall. It was a fancy-schmamcy shindig populated by pop stars, publishing honchos, pouty models, glamazon drag queens, and a veritable who's who of the gay glitterati. I spent most of the evening in the company of handsome Robert Cameron (VP of Levi's) and activist/radio host Michelangelo Signorile, we had a blast together. There were several musical performances over the evening - Nikki Costa rocked with house with her Janis Joplin-meets-James Brown act, but the absolute highlight of the night was the very first performance of the reunited Labelle in 33 years.ABOVE: How amazing does Nona Hendryx look? She's 64! She's openly bi, you know.ABOVE: Cheyenne Jackson accepts his award.

I'll have video of the Labelle's first number up a bit later - Patti got quite verklempt at singing with her old bandmates for the first time in so long. For the last number, she asked for three volunteers to come up and perform Lady Marmelade. One of the volunteers was actor Wilson Cruz and he fucking stole the show, seriously everybody thought he'd been planted, he was that good. I ran into Wilson at the rally on Saturday and he was still on a complete high, but denied that it had been staged. Below is a slideshow of the evening - I got some amazing shots. Go here for full-screen versions of the photos plus captions.

UPDATE: Here's the video. I was right under the speakers so the sound is lousy, but after the song ends there's a couple of minutes of applause and you can see how moved they were by their reception. Later in the set, they spoke passionately about marriage equality. I'll try and find a clip of that.