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.
José Becerra
Gabriella Angelina
Nikola Alexandre
Meet one of the artists, disruptors, educators, groundbreakers, innovators, and storytellers who all helped make the world a better place for LGBTQ+ people.
José Becerra
Nikola Santarem Alexandre is a Black queer forester whose life changed after attending a nature-based healing gathering following the Pulse massacre. The experience inspired them to commit to land stewardship and nurture a sustainable future for marginalized communities.
After obtaining degrees in forestry and business from Yale University, Alexandre founded Conservation International’s Ecosystem Restoration Program and now serves as its senior advisor. Alexandre cocreated and leads the Shelterwood Collective, a 900-acre, queer-run forest and community center in Northern California. He continues to center queer and Black voices in environmental stewardship.
“Queerness and ecological health are intimately linked,” Alexandre says. “Our environmental problems are born from attempts to create boxes that separate people and nature. It’s only by rejecting those boxes and blurring the divides between people, places, and ecologies that we’ll be able to restore balance in our ecosystems and build a world where all can thrive. Queerness is one of our greatest teachers for this kind of endeavor, and queer leaders are needed in the climate movement for it to reach its full potential.” @blk_forester