OUT
Magazine continues their roll-out of the coveted OUT100 with the
additions of newlyweds Thomas Roberts & Patrick Abner, Gayby actor
Matthew Wilkas, and a number of musicians – including Amanda Palmer,
Perfume Genius, Ed Droeste, Jana Hunter, Leif, Light Asylum and John O’Regan of
Diamond Rings.
As the MSNBC
daytime anchor, Thomas Roberts has certainly upped his profile during this
election year. Although he said he wanted to get married in his
hometown of Baltimore, he settled for a rooftop
in Manhattan
when he wed Patrick Abner, an HIV community liaison for pharmaceutical
company Merck. “I never imaged in a million years that I would be on a
stage kissing my male partner, spouse – husband, Thomas is saying – in front of
my father,” Abner said during the ceremony. “And to be able to do that and have
not just my father but my whole family be proud of me? That’s something
special.”
Matthew
Wilkas spent most
of his evenings this year on stage playing Flash Thompson in the Broadway
musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. But it was his
beguiling, all-to-relatable performance in Johnathan Lisecki’s festval favorite
Gayby, in which he starred as a heartbroken gay comic book artist who
agrees to conceive a child with his best hetero girlfriend, that left us
decidedly smitten.
