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The 2025 Out100: Nyle DiMarco
These are the LGBTQ+ people making the world bolder and brighter in 2025.
The multitalented Nyle DiMarco is the winner of two reality competitions: America’s Next Top Model (2015) and Dancing With the Stars (2016). He’s acted on Station 19 and Queer as Folk. He’s a Deaf activist. And this year, he made his directorial debut with Deaf President Now!
The Emmy-nominated documentary covers the 1988 student protest that occurred at Gallaudet University after the world’s premier university for the Deaf elected a hearing president — a pivotal moment in the Deaf rights movement that led to the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act. With his film, DiMarco hopes he’s “engraving it as a part of history, so it may stand alongside other movements that are taught.”
Additionally, DiMarco wishes the story of activists with different viewpoints coming together for change will inspire others in today’s divided world. “In many ways, we’ve forgotten how to protest. I think we’ve lost hope,” DiMarco says. “My hope would be that this film really inspires people, that collective action is still possible, and that we can use it to meet our goals.” @nyledimarco
Daniel Reynolds
Daniel Reynolds is the editor-in-chief of Out and an award-winning journalist who focuses on the intersection between entertainment and politics. This Jersey boy has now lived in Los Angeles for more than a decade.
Daniel Reynolds is the editor-in-chief of Out and an award-winning journalist who focuses on the intersection between entertainment and politics. This Jersey boy has now lived in Los Angeles for more than a decade.
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Trudy RingTrudy Ring is The Advocate's senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she's interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud "old movie weirdo" and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and '40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate's senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she's interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud "old movie weirdo" and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and '40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate's senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she's interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud "old movie weirdo" and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and '40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
The 2025 Out100: Ian L. Haddock
These are the LGBTQ+ people making the world bolder and brighter in 2025.
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Founder and executive director of the Normal Anomaly Initiative Ian L. Haddock says his work is based on a quote from Bayard Rustin: “The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don’t turn.” Haddock’s Texas-based organization is “dedicated to eliminating barriers and creating new norms centering the Black LGBTQ+ community throughout the South,” he says.
Something that made him proud in 2025 was that a youth who is like family to him, on turning 17, came out to him as transgender. “It has been my honor and privilege to be there to support them and empower them to be their authentic self,” says Haddock, a Black queer man.
His biggest challenge was losing half the group’s budget after January 20, which brought on a mental health crisis, but he found ways to deal with it. In the coming year, the Normal Anomaly will focus on a new transitional housing initiative.
The message he sends is “to act courageously” and “be bravely visible.” @ianlhaddock