This year’s OUT100 Gala marked another storied year for the LGBTQ community. At the onset we found ourselves facing off against an administration that wants to tear our rights away from us one by one. But, as usual, adversity only hardened our resolve. Transgender members of the military bumped shoulders with queer celebrities and musical icons, weaving a contemporary tapestry of how far-reaching queer culture and the queer community is in 2017.