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The Outspoken 25
25 LGBT trailblazers who made headlines in 2021 and helped to shatter the left’s monochromatic depiction of the rainbow.

Since we began Outspoken in the summer of 2020, we had this simple idea: compile a list of the most influential LGBTs in media, politics, entertainment, and online who challenge convention, stand up against groupthink, and embody values of freedom, liberty, and the First Amendment.
We continued to run into a problem. What was originally conceived of as the Outspoken 50 quickly became the Outspoken 100, and only grew from there. While we tend to think of ourselves as a niche demographic, we began to realize perhaps the opposite might be true. There were simply too many names we wanted to include and, inevitably, someone would be left out.
At the risk of drawing ire from personalities and their fans who felt they’d been snubbed, we shelved the idea temporarily. Outspoken always set out to be a touchstone, a home base, for a surging, often disjoined, sentiment in the LGBT zeitgeist: those putting up a challenge to liberal orthodoxy and the increasingly dangerous and insane prerogatives pushed forth in the guise of LGBT rights. Singling out just some influencers seemed counterproductive to our mission.
And, yet, such a list still felt important, not only to inspire and elevate, but to show villains in media and Gay, Inc. just how influential and diverse these voices had become. We decided for the inaugural edition of this feature, which, going forward, will run every year in December, to go smaller, rather than bigger. This year, Outspoken editors combed through an exhaustive list of our favorite people to pick 25 LGBTs who made headlines in 2021, who recently burst onto the scene, or who have been trailblazers in shattering the left’s monochromatic depiction of the rainbow.
This list is too short, and that’s on purpose. As Outspoken, and organizations like the Log Cabin Republicans, continue to experience explosive growth, we look forward to working with our old friends and making new ones in the battles that await us in 2022, where LGBT conservatives, libertarians, and freethinkers promise to be an unshakable and deciding force.
-Chadwick Moore
Editor-in-chief, Outspoken and Outspoken Middle East
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Bruce is also a columnist for the Washington Times and has authored three books, teasing on social media that there is a fourth in the works. While suffering from laryngitis which kept her from doing her radio hosting duties, she tweeted, “I do have a new book I’m working on which is a bit behind schedule so perhaps this is the universe’s way of kicking me in the derriere suggesting I hunker down!” (Image // Fox News)


Since entering politics, the born and raised Staten Islander has been a bane in the side of New York City’s liberal establishment. He gained citywide notoriety by suing the Department of Education when it threatened to take school buses away from his district and once sued Mayor Bill De Blasio over granting city IDs to illegal aliens. (Image // SILive)

Ellis has called himself a centrist and not overly political. Viewing politics and the world through a lens of logic, he championed free speech in America and has called out the hypocrisy of the left saying that the progressive movement is “as authoritarian as what they’re protesting.” His first novel in 12 years, The Shards, is due out next year. (Image // Los Angeles Magazine)

Greene has spoken publicly about dealing with gender dysphoria and seeking therapy to help combat it. To date, that therapy has been successful for him as he has written, “Even if I would prefer to be female, I understand that my body is male, and therefore the most effective and healthiest plan of action is to align my sense of gender to that unchangeable state.” (Image // The Federalist)

In recent years, Greenwald has attracted ire from leftwing journalists for calling out the excesses and hypocrisies of liberal mainstream media. In 2020, he resigned from The Intercept, a news website he co-founded, after he claimed the outlet was attempting to censor negative reporting on Joe Biden. Since 2018, he has been a regular guest on Fox News and Tucker Carlson Tonight, where he remains a powerful critic of government overreach and authoritarianism. (Image // The Daily Beast)

Grenell is a strong conservative voice on Twitter as he calls out the hypocrisy of the left and the current administration. He has helped take up the cause of fighting for human rights for LGBTs in the Middle East. In 2021, Grenell launched his Fix California initiative focusing on education and voter integrity in his home state. It was recently announced that he joined the Newsmax team as a national security contributor and vice president for international development. (Image // Politico)

Following the 2016 Pulse nightclub terrorist attack in Orlando, Fla., Hoft came out as gay, blaming then President Obama for the attacks and derided leftists who pointed fingers at Christians and gun-owners in the aftermath of the tragedy. Following the presidential election of 2020, Gateway Pundit relentlessly investigated rampant claims of voter fraud and election malfeasance, which resulted in the top-ranking news outlet getting banned from Twitter and de-monetized from left-wing Google’s advertising revenue service. (Image // CNN)

Billing himself, sarcastically, as a “1% African, 20% Latin X, colored, vegan fluid, misgendered, nonbinary, intersectional feminist, lesbian,” to mock the asinine, participation trophy culture of the left, Hogatha has been so effective at trolling liberals he even inadvertently trolls the right, who’ve often derided his videos before understanding they’re satire. (Image // YouTube)


Michell has recently been an outspoken force against Covid regulations and the vaccine mandates. So many of her Instagram posts about the vaccine were being flagged that she has taken to scratching through the word wherever it appears in hopes of staving off another ban. (Image // Outspoken)

As a gay, black conservative, Murdock has also spoken out about the “racial hoaxster and weapons-grade pathological liar” Jussie Smollett. In a recent op-ed he calls for Smollett to serve the maximum sentence for his crimes writing, “Having lied to the cops, divided the nation, and torched police assets, Smollett deserves the maximum 15-years in prison when he is sentenced next year.” (Image // CPAC 2018)

Murray is working on a new book due to be released in April 2022 entitled The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason in which he asks the question, “If the history of humankind is a history of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide, and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it?” (Image // The Globe and Mail)

Ngo is perhaps best known for his work exposing vigilante groups like Antifa. Due to his work, he has been the victim of many personal attacks, at least one of which was life threatening, and he has been actively hunted by radical leftists. His research is documented in his exposé book Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. (Image // Willamette Week)


![Dave Rubin is an author and. host of his YouTube talk show The Rubin Report. Rubin classifies himself as a “classical liberal” and has been staunchly outspoken against the progressive left and age of identity politics that has recently emerged. He said during a 2019 interview, “[W]hether you’re gay or straight or black or white or female or trans, those things are actually completely irrelevant other than your thoughts; your thoughts and actions are what matters.”
Rubin and his husband recently left the leftist haven of California and moved to Florida. “I am officially leaving the dystopian nightmare of California for the free state of Florida. My successful business and all my employees are coming with,” he said in a tweet. Perhaps his relocation will save him some tax money from the sales of his newest book due to come out in 2022, Don’t Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia. (Image // National Review)](https://getoutspoken.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/12/Dave-Rubin/1310466079.png)

Rebel has toured with Britney Spears and shared stages with Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated artists including Kesha, Mya, Patti Labelle, and Colbie Caillat. He has released four albums and has a new book of photography on the way. (Image // 9News)

Scarcella’s YouTube videos focused on sex and sexuality, and more recently she has become outspoken against the lies and rhetoric of LGBT partisan activists. Since the shift in messaging, Scarcella has faced some backlash from her YouTube peers and has even seen some demonetization, but her following and popularity continues to grow as she speaks up for truth. (Image // The Advertiser)

His book Privileged Victims warns us of the nefarious intentions behind the new woke movement in America. “Bewildered citizens mistakenly believe that it’s a matter of political correctness gone too far or the ailing symptoms of a country that has grown too sensitive. The truth is much worse: it’s a deliberate, malignant reorganization of American life and the replacement of merit with mediocrity is the ultimate destination,” Scarry writes. (Image // The Washington Examiner)

The Turning Point USA Ambassador has also launched a podcast, Rob Smith Is Problematic, where he takes on political issues and culture war battles of the day. (Image // Turning Point USA)

Thiel’s speech was met with uproarious applause and his appearance solidified a sea-change in the Republican party’s attitude toward LGBT issues, one also embodied by the future president, much to the frustration and confusion of leftwing LGBT activists. (Image // The New York Post)

Walker is known for his political rants in the Starbucks drive-thru line. But his most recent semi-viral video showed him pointing out the high gas prices in California due to inflation and Joe Biden’s policies. His criticism never fails to upset leftists on social media, even catching the ire of former celebrities like Kathy Griffin. (Image // Instagram)

White recently left Hollywood, Calif. to move to the more conservative state of Texas. She was slated to appear on the Dr. Phil show, but her episode was pulled and producers informed her it would never air. White speculates that the decision to pull the episode was due to the fact that she did not give them the politically correct soundbites that they wanted on issues such as trans sports and trans bathroom usage. (Image // YouTube)

White has also been an ambassador for Turning Point USA and is outspoken about his political beliefs on Instagram. Despite being in the entertainment industry, he firmly believes that he has a right and responsibility to speak his mind and opinion. He feels that art should be controversial and not fit one mold. “We have been owned by the leftist media for so long in our industry. It is our time to fight back,” he said in an Instagram video. (Image // Clear Talent Group)
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