The Men and Women who made 2007 a year to remember

  • JENNIFER HUDSON

    Breakthrough Star

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  • THOM BROWNE

    Stylemaker of the Year

  • BILL T. JONES

    Lifetime Achievement

  • MARY-LOUISE PARKER

    Entertainer of the Year

  • BRYAN BATT

    Artist of the Year

  • THE CINEPHILES

    These honorees have brought their defiantly queer films to audiences around the world.

  • THE ARTISANS

    From fashion to make-up to architecture, these honorees design our world from the ground up.

  • THE TRANSFORMERS

    These honorees are shaping the way our world thinks about queer life, through advertising, media and public pressure.

  • THE DRAMATISTS

    These six honorees revived and reimagined the theatre, from big Broadway revivals to avant garde cabaret.

  • THE WORDSMITHS

    These honorees all bend words to their will, telling their own stories and their friends (real and imagined).

  • THE SERIALISTS

    These five performers are consistently funnier, hotter and tougher than any of their straight counterparts.

  • THE CHANNELERS

    These five men have kept us tuned to the more-than-an-idiot-box for the most dramatic stories of the 21st century.

  • THE FRONTMEN

    These five musicians are hell-bent on breaking the sound barrier.

  • THE ORCHESTRA

    This sextet isn't above making a ruckus or raising a few eyebrows.

  • THE WINNING TEAM

    These champions may be better known off the field, but they're definitely still in the game.

  • THE PLAYMAKERS

    These honorees wrote their own rules, from the pages of old and new media to the racetrack and the tennis court.

  • THE NOISEMAKERS

    These next five may not (yet) be household names, but their musical signatures evoke the soundtracks of our lives.

  • THE PROVOCATEURS

    These Out 100 honorees aren't interested in telling you what you want to hear.

  • THE RABBLEROUSERS

    Our first eight honorees of 2007 had a front-row seat for our most important wins and hardest losses.

  • THE OTHERS

    We'll name all 100 names in the weeks leading up to the gala Out 100 party on November 9th.