Boston-based Adrienne M. Thomas is well known and respected as the co-producer of Provincetown’s annual Women of Color Weekend, a Human Rights Campaign board member, and leader of Bad Ass Freckled Boi/Incorrigible Romantic Productions represents for Boston on this year’s top 100 list.

Thomas tells Go Magazine “There just isn’t much out there for us...there’s so much confusion about what it means to be a stud or AG—in the street, at work, in the bedroom. My message for the LGBT community is that there is not just one cookie cutter way to be a stud/AG, and if there has to be a model, that model should embody more positive aspects than negative traits.”