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Pabllo Vittar
Meet one of the artists, disruptors, educators, groundbreakers, innovators, and storytellers who all helped make the world a better place for LGBTQ+ people.
Pabllo Vittar is not just a renowned drag performer. She’s a legitimate Brazilian pop star and A-list celebrity who keeps expanding her global reach. With 2.3 billion views and 7.9 million subscribers on YouTube, 21.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify, and a following of 13 million on Instagram and 9.6 million on TikTok, Vittar is unquestionably the most popular drag artist of the digital age.
Describing her sound as “sexy, upbeat, and 100 percent Brazilian vibes with a pop twist,” Vittar enters this year’s Out100 after going viral with “Alibi” (a collab with Sevdaliza and Yseult) and becoming the second-ever drag queen to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart — following the drag pioneer herself, RuPaul, who charted thrice in the 1990s.
Vittar is proud of “reaching mainstream audiences despite being a queer artist” in Brazil, where it’s still dangerous for the LGBTQ+ community despite the country’s lively music scene for queer and trans artists. Next up, the unstoppable Vittar is releasing a new album. @pabllovittar
Bernardo Sim
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.
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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