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Out magazine hosted its 14th Annual OUT 100 Awards at Gotham Hall in NYC last night in order to honor the mag’s People of the Year who are described as gay and straight “artists, activists, athletes, and aesthetes [who] embody triumph, daring, ingenuity, and integrity”. Here are a few of the Out 100 honorees as they strutted their stuff on the red carpet last night:

Broadway actor Cheyenne Jackson (Xanadu) was named Entertainer of the Year by the magazine for his “stereotype-breaking performances” and musician Sam Sparro was chosen as Breakout Star of the Year for being “an exciting new musician who never considered the closet as an option”. Nikka Costa, Heather Matarazzo (one of the Actors of the Year) and her partner Carolyn Murphy among others were in attendance at last night’s affair as well. Here is this month’s cover of Out magazine which features Out 100 honorees Cheyenne Jackson, Sam Sparro, Katy Perry (Musician of the Year) and director Gus Van Sant (Artist of the Year):

In the spirit of celebration you’ll forgive us for not stopping at 100: Our special awardees, both gay and straight, include Gus Van Sant for his thrilling new cinema paean to our first high-profile out elected official; Dean and Dan Caten for Dsquared2, for their forward-looking menswear; Cheyenne Jackson for his stereotype-breaking performances; Katy Perry for her unfiltered ode to sexual experimentation; Bishop Gene Robinson for leading the fight for equality in our houses of worship; and Sam Sparro, an exciting new musician who never considered the closet as an option.

Click HERE to see some of the other folks who made this year’s Out 100 list and see if any of your faves were honored. Much congrats to this year’s honorees … having seen the list, I can honestly say that Out did an amazing job picking this year’s batch of honorees. Woot!

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Woot! I am very happy to report that Heather Matarazzo, best known for her role as Dawn in Welcome to the Dollhouse but more recently from her films The Princess Diaries and Hostel II, has gotten herself engaged to be married to her longtime girlfriend Carolyn Murphy. Please join me in wishing these two lovely ladies much congrats and love at this amazing news:

25-year-old actress Heather Matarazzo is officially engaged to musician Carolyn Murphy, Matarazzo’s publicist announced today. Lisa Jammal told E! News that Matarazzo “is engaged to Carolyn Murphy. They’ve been together for over a year.” It was “love at first sight,” according to Jammal. They both proposed to each other, “It was really cute. First Heather proposed to Carolyn, then Carolyn proposed to her.” The two are very supportive of each other and totally in love, Jammal added. No date for the wedding has been announced.

I have been a huge fan of Heather‘s for years and was very fortunate to be able to do a short interview with her for Hostel II last year. I was able to meet Carolyn when she accompanied Heather to the 40th Anniversary party for The Advocate magazine last September — they were such an adorable couple then, I’m not surprised that they popped the question to each other ;) Much congrats to both Heather and Carolyn and I wish them a long and happy life together.

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