SILVER LAKE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Out Magazine has announced its 31st annual Out 100.

The list recognizes the most influential and pioneering LGBTQ+ people across entertainment, politics, activism, sports, and more.

One of thise year's honorees is the founder of local non-profit Baby Gay and host of the Baby Gay podcase, PJ Brescia.

PJ told us, "If you told my younger self that you're going to be a queer nonprofit starter or a queer rights activist, I would have said, 'no way, you're crazy. I'm straight.' It's just kind of unfolded."

Baby Gay is a media platform and a nonprofit celebrating people through the coming out process, through storytelling, advocacy, and togetherness, all while humanizing the queer experience.

"When I hit 30 and I was kind of feeling very lost in my life. I went on this five-day writing experience," stated PJ.

"I started writing this web series, and it was a fictional comedy based on my coming out story, someone coming out later in life."

"And what formed was a web series called 'Baby Gay,' because for me, I wasn't until I saw someone else's story that was already out, that I saw myself in, that it kind of unlocked something within me that said, 'Oh, there. Okay, I'm going to be okay too.'"

The mission is about sharing stories, so in April of 2025, the Baby Gay podcast was launched.

"I love just talking to people and hearing their stories," said PJ. "The goal with this project is to kind of highlight that there is no one way to be queer."

"I think that PJ has an intrinsic understanding of what hospitality means, which is not just that you have a story to tell, but you listen to other people's stories," mentioned Lindsay Kennedy, co-owner of The Black Cat Tavern in Silver Lake.

"And that's sort of what I think PJ's super power is. My purpose of owning The Black Cat is to tell stories, and to tell queer stories because of the roots of this building."

"Joining with PJ to really celebrate National Coming Out Day this year for the third time, is probably one of the more important reasons I'm in this business. It's really giving me purpose to participate with PJ and National Coming Out Day celebrations."

Abdullah Hall, a Baby Gay board member, added, "I saw this booth and I'm like, 'What is Baby Gay?' And so PJ Brescia was there and said, 'Oh, this is Baby Gay,' and told me it's a 501 C3 nonprofit that assist in the coming out process."

"Would you like to leave a message to a new person that's coming out?" and I thought, that is brilliant. Yes, I would!"

Hall added, "Because I remember coming out. If somebody had a little message for you and just said, 'Everything's going to be okay' or 'You're amazing,' that would have been great when I came out."

Brescia continued, "I see our events and our advocacy going beyond Los Angeles.

I see us getting the National Coming Out Day recognition here in LA.

I want to bring that to other cities and states throughout the country

and out the world. I think we're just at the beginning of this journey,

and what's been so incredible is that it's just been unfolding,

and I feel like I am being guided from above, and I'm this conduit,