Out Magazine Announces The Out 100

Canadian actor Luke Macfarlane came out earlier this year, making himself eligible for The Out 100 He’s the charming funny man Scotty Wandell on ABC’s Brothers & Sisters.
Today, Out magazine announced The Out 100, one-hundred gay men and women deemed progressive within gay culture. Athletes, activists, artists, and aesthetes fill the list. Here are just a few names followed by lines from their bios:
Journalist Rachel Maddow: “The 35-year-old Rhodes scholar, a TV novice but veteran radio commentator (with Air America since its 2004 founding)”
Actor Wilson Cruz: “As an actor Cruz has garnered wide-ranging roles in comedy and drama, playing silly, sexy, and serious since his groundbreaking portrayal of an out high schooler in My So-called Life.”
Star Trek newlywed George Takei: “George Takei will always be Star Trek‘s Mr. Sulu, while to others, he’s big daddy Kaito Nakamura on Heroes. But in his biggest role to date, he and his partner of 21 years became husbands…”
Athlete Corey Benton: “He came out the summer before his sophomore year, and his experience prompted him to organize an association for LGBT athletes at Columbia.”
Freedom to Marry founder Evan Wolfson: “Evan Wolfson wrote his Harvard Law School thesis on same-sex marriage in 1983, worked on marriage cases for Lambda Legal during the ’90s, founded Freedom to Marry in 2003.”
Perfumer Francis Kurdjian: “Beginning one’s career as a perfumer with a scent for Jean Paul Gaultier (with the very successful Le Mâle) is auspicious enough, but doing so by the tender age of 25 is rather unheard of.”
Check out Out.com for more of The Out 100.