More from Out 100: Ian McKellen, Guillermo Díaz, Jeffrey Schwartz and team behind “The Fosters”

Out Magazine continues to unveil its OUT 100 and I’m featuring some of them here and there.

It’s going to be tough to top the Robbie Rogers selection and photos but these choices are stellar as well:

Ian McKellan: After coming out in 1988 in protest against Britain’s Section 28 — which sought to prevent schools from promoting “the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family lifestyle” — he co-founded Stonewall, an LGBT lobby group in the United Kingdom, and has been a vocal advocate for gay rights ever since.

“Coming out is the best thing to fuel social change,” he says. “People can only be cruel and horrible to gay people if they think that they don’t know any.” Of the roles he feels the most affinity for, McKellen settles on James Whale, the gay Hollywood director of the 1930s whom he played in the 1998 film Gods and Monsters, and for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.

Asked what achievement in 2013 he’s proudest of, McKellen, now 74, thinks for a moment, before breaking into a wry smile: “I’m proud of still being here, I suppose.”

Guillermo Diaz: With his portrayal of Huck, an ex-assassin and Olivia Pope’s merciless gladiator on the ABC breakout Scandal, Díaz has confirmed that he’s a master at channeling bad-boy complexity.

The series’ past two seasons have seen Huck coming to terms with his tormented past, and Díaz’s performance, much like his turn as the malicious, drug-dealing ruffian Guillermo on Showtime’s Weeds, has proven to be as nuanced and mesmerizing as it is twisted.

In this great age of television antiheroes, Díaz’s villains are dark, terrifying, unpredictable — and yet, despite their menacing rough edges, impossible to hate.

Just the way we like them.

Jeffrey Schwartz: The filmmaker and director’s year in a word: Divine. His latest feature documentary — his fourth in five years — chronicles the life and career of Harris Glenn Milstead, an overweight gay kid from Baltimore who transformed himself into Divine, the drag superstar, disco act, and outré leading lady of the John Waters classics Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Hairspray.

Schwarz spent most of 2013 unveiling I Am Divine at film festivals worldwide before it opened in theaters this fall, right after he scored his first Emmy, for Outstanding Research, at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, for his HBO film Vito, the story of gay activist and scholar Vito Russo. Schwarz is now at work on his next project, Tab Hunter Confidential, about the closeted 1950s matinee idol.
The Team Behind The Fosters: Gregg Gugliotta, Bradley Bredeweg, Joanna Johnson, & Peter Paige: The Fosters, this year’s new ABC Family drama about two married moms and their brood of five kids (a blend of biological, adopted, and fostered), is so real it hurts. Co-creators Bredeweg and Paige, showrunner Johnson (who has two kids with her wife), and producer Gugliotta landed Jennifer Lopez as an executive producer, and their passionate viewers propelled the show past right-wing boycotts to score a second season.

Go to OUT.com to see all the OUT 100 selections revealed so far!