Easton Schirra
Disruptors
Law Roach
Meet one of the artists, disruptors, educators, groundbreakers, innovators, and storytellers who all helped make the world a better place for LGBTQ+ people.
Law Roach quite literally wrote the book this year on being a legendary fashion stylist.
The How to Build a Fashion Icon author once swore he was retiring from styling. Yet in 2024, he crafted some of the most buzzworthy visual moments for celebrities, including Celine Dion for her epic Grammys comeback and Zendaya for her Dune: Part Two and Challengers press tours.
Now, the outspoken fashion maven has a new business venture called School of Style, which he founded with his friend and agent Kent Belden. Roach says creating "a go-to destination for anyone who wants to start a career in fashion styling" was the next logical step in his evolution.
Roach, who is “proudly Black and proudly gay,” also had an epiphany this year: “I realized [being these identities] wasn’t an obstacle that I needed to overcome, it’s for everyone else in the world to overcome, to accept and embrace.”
Law’s message about LGBTQ+ equality to the powers that be? "Fuck you. We're tired of begging!" @luxurylaw
Raffy Ermac
Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, and critic.
Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, and critic.
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Bernardo SimBernardo Sim is the deputy editor of Out, as well as a writer and content creator. Born in Brazil, he currently lives in South Florida. You can follow him on Instagram at @bernardosim.
Bernardo Sim is the deputy editor of Out, as well as a writer and content creator. Born in Brazil, he currently lives in South Florida. You can follow him on Instagram at @bernardosim.
Bernardo Sim is the deputy editor of Out, as well as a writer and content creator. Born in Brazil, he currently lives in South Florida. You can follow him on Instagram at @bernardosim.
Natalie Wynn
Meet one of the artists, disruptors, educators, groundbreakers, innovators, and storytellers who all helped make the world a better place for LGBTQ+ people.
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Known to fans as ContraPoints, Natalie Wynn amassed 1.83 million YouTube subscribers by creating what she says are “video essays about politics and social issues, from online hate movements to the madness of J.K. Rowling.”
The transgender lesbian influencer makes epic, hours-long video essays that approach topics with academic rigor while creating hilarious and profound pieces of media that involve sets, costumes, ambient lighting, and the intellectual threading of philosophy with pop culture. This year, Wynn released a three-hour-long video where she “mapped the intricate depravities of heterosexual fantasy by studying The Twilight Saga.” In six months, the video amassed 4.5 million views.
However, being continually online has its pitfalls. “My biggest obstacle is the mental illness that afflicts anyone with an online reputation,” she says. “The love and the hate are equally dangerous. Narcissism and paranoia go together. The only cure is knowing when to step away.”
Wynn, an essential voice for her generation, wants the world to know that “LGBTQ+ people are just like everybody else, except more gay.” @contrapoints