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The following is a list of some prominent LGBT Jews.
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[edit] Politicians
- Roberta Achtenberg, HUD assistant secretary[1]
- Sheldon Andelson, University of California Regent[2]
- David Cicilline, Mayor of Providence, RI (Jewish mother)
- Roy Cohn, McCarthyist lawyer
- Michal Eden, Tel-Aviv city councillor
- Uzi Even, Israeli MK
- Arthur J. Finkelstein, Republican political operative
- Barney Frank, US congressman
- Deborah Glick, NY State Assembly
- Jackie Goldberg, California State Assembly
- Mark Leno, California State Assembly
- Peter Mandelson, British politician (Jewish father)
- Carole Migden, California State Assembly
- Harvey Milk, San Francisco city supervisor
[edit] Activists
Note: many other activists are listed under their main profession.
- Linda Bellos, UK gay rights activist
- Miriam Ben-Shalom, founder of AVER
- Niek Engelschman, gay rights activist
- Kurt Hiller, lawyer, pacifist & gay rights activist
- Brenda Howard, bi activist
- Frank Kameny, gay rights activist
- Arnie Kantrowitz, co-founder of GLAAD
- Aldo Mieli, gay rights activist
- Mario Mieli, gay rights activist (unconfirmed)
- Lillian Wald, nurse & social worker
- Evan Wolfson, gay marriage activist
- Noa Sattath, executive director of the Jerusalem Open House
[edit] Religious figures
See also: List of LGBT Rabbis
- Rabbi Allen Bennett, first openly gay rabbi
- Rabbi Lionel Blue, first openly gay rabbi in the UK; broadcaster[3]
- Rabbi Steven Greenberg, first openly gay Orthodox rabbi
- Rabbi Peter Kessler, first openly gay rabbi to be ordained
- Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, rabbi of world's largest LGBT synagogue
- Rabbi Stacy Offner, first openly lesbian rabbi
- Rabbi Sheila Shulman, first openly lesbian rabbi in the UK
- Reuben Zellman, first openly transgender rabbinical student (not yet ordained)
[edit] Academics
- Dennis Altman, politics and sexuality[4]
- Jean-Paul Aron, intellectual[5]
- Sanford Berman, radical librarian
- Allan Bloom, philosopher[6]
- Judith Butler, queer theorist
- Martin Duberman, historian[7]
- Lillian Faderman, historian
- Estelle Freedman, feminist historian
- Marjorie Garber, cultural critic
- H. L. A. Hart, legal philosopher
- Magnus Hirschfeld, sexologist
- Prue Hyman, feminist economist
- Richard Isay, psychoanalyst
- Jonathan D. Katz, queer theorist
- Fritz Klein, sex researcher, bi activist
- Golo Mann, historian (Jewish mother)
- Aldo Mieli, science historian & activist
- George Mosse, historian
- B. Ruby Rich, cultural theorist & film critic
- Edward Sagarin / Donald Webster Cory, sociologist & activist
- Tobias Schneebaum, anthropologist
- Charles Silverstein, psychotherapist & author
- Otto Weininger, philosopher
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
- Charlotte Wolff, psychiatrist
[edit] Show Business
- Chantal Akerman, film director[8]
- Simon Amstell, comedian[9]
- Jacques d'Ancona, tv media critic (Jewish father)
- Alexis Arquette, actor (Jewish mother)
- Barbara Barend, tv host (Jewish father)
- Michael Bennett, choreographer (Jewish mother)
- Sandra Bernhard (1955 - ) actress and comedian[10]
- Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923) world-famous stage actress[11]
- Nell Carter, actress (convert)
- Ilene Chaiken, creator of The L Word[12]
- George Cukor, director
- Harvey Fierstein, actor & playwright
- Eytan Fox, film director
- Leonard Frey, actor
- Stephen Fry, actor & comedian (Jewish mother)
- David Geffen, film producer
- Sara Gilbert, actress
- Judy Gold (1962 - ) stand-up comedian and actress[13]
- Jason Gould, actor
- Todd Graff, actor & filmmaker
- Nina Hartley, porn actress
- Todd Haynes, film director (Jewish mother)
- Tab Hunter, actor (Jewish father)
- Nicholas Hytner, director
- Larry Kert, stage actor
- Lincoln Kirstein, dance impressario
- Stuart Krasnow, reality television producer [3]
- Lynn Lavner, comedian, musician
- Matt Lucas, comedian
- Miriam Margolyes, actress
- Inge Meysel, actress (Jewish father)
- Kimberly Peirce, director (half-Jewish)
- Léa Pool, director (Jewish father)
- Irving Rapper, director
- Paul Reubens, actor
- Jerome Robbins, choreographer
- Steve Rubell, co-founder of Studio 54
- Ida Rubinstein, dancer & actress
- Leontine Sagan, director
- John Schlesinger, film director
- Joel Schumacher, film director
- Adam Shankman, film director, choreographer
- Antony Sher, stage actor
- Bryan Singer, film director
- Ione Skye, actress (Jewish mother)
- Annie Sprinkle, performance artist
- Darren Star, tv producer & screenwriter
- Mauritz Stiller, director
- Jason Stuart, actor-comedian
- Robin Tyler, comedian
- Pieter-Dirk Uys, satirist, playwright (Jewish mother)
- Bruce Vilanch, comedy writer
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor, Jonathan Taylor Thomas was born, Jonathan Taylor Weiss. (Jewish father)
- Naomi Westerman, actress & writer
- Arnie Zane, choreographer
[edit] Musicians
- Howard Ashman, musical writer[14]
- Babydaddy, member of Scissor Sisters[15]
- Jean-Pierre Barda, member of Army of Lovers[16]
- Frieda Belinfante, conductor (Jewish father)[17]
- Leonard Bernstein, composer
- Marc Blitzstein, composer
- Pete Burns, member of Dead or Alive (Jewish mother)
- Aaron Copland, composer
- Dana International, singer
- Vaginal Davis, performance artist (Jewish father)[18]
- David Diamond, composer
- Ani DiFranco, singer/songwriter (unconfirmed Jewish mother)
- Alix Dobkin, singer/songwriter[19]
- Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles
- Perry Farrell, member of Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros
- Frances Faye, jazz singer
- Michael Feinstein, singer, pianist
- William Finn, musical writer
- Sandy Gallin, manager, talent agent, producer
- Ari Gold, singer/songwriter
- Howard Greenfield, lyricist
- Reynaldo Hahn, composer (Jewish father)
- Lorenz Hart, musical writer
- Jerry Herman, musical writer
- Libby Holman, singer, actress
- Janis Ian, singer/songwriter
- Jeremy Joseph, organiser of G-A-Y (unconfirmed)
- John Kander & Fred Ebb, musical writers
- Dave Koz, pop saxophonist
- Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist
- Marilyn Lerner, jazz pianist
- Ivri Lider, singer/songwriter
- Frederick Loewe, composer (Jewish father)
- Meredith Monk, performance artist
- Jon Moss, member of Culture Club
- Laura Nyro, singer/songwriter (Jewish mother)
- Peaches, electrothrash artist
- Phranc, singer/songwriter
- Lou Reed, rock musician
- Hilary Rosen, former head of the RIAA
- Rachael Sage, singer/songwriter
- Kate Schellenbach, member of Luscious Jackson
- Lorin Sklamberg & Alicia Svigals, members of The Klezmatics
- Marc Shaiman, musical writer
- Jill Sobule, singer/songwriter
- soce, the elemental wizard, rapper
- Stephen Sondheim, musical writer
- Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
- Josh Zuckerman, singer/songwriter
[edit] Writers
- Leroy Aarons, journalist, founder of NLGJA
- Jon Robin Baitz, playwright[20]
- Steve Berman, speculative fiction writer[21]
- Natalie Clifford Barney, writer, salon hostess (Jewish maternal grandfather)
- Kate Bornstein, author & performance artist
- Jane Bowles, writer
- Susie Bright (1958 – ) American writer and broadcaster[22]
- Harold Brodkey, author
- Bryher, novelist (probably Jewish father)[23]
- Charles Busch, playwright[24]
- Alfred Chester, writer
- Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media (Jewish mother)[25]
- György Faludy, poet
- Leslie Feinberg, author & activist
- Hubert Fichte, author (Jewish father)
- Edward Field, poet
- Diane Flacks, playwright & screenwriter
- Giovanni Forti, Italian journalist, writer and activist. First gay Italian Jew ever to openly marry in a gay synagogue (with Brett Shapiro), and to adopt a child. He died of AIDS.
- Helen Fremont, author
- Ellen Galford, writer
- Allen Ginsberg, poet
- Paul Goodman, author & intellectual
- Richard Greenberg, playwright
- Jacob Israël de Haan, poet
- Richard Hall, writer & literary critic
- Marilyn Hacker, poet
- William Hoffman, playwright
- Richard Howard, poet & translator
- Max Jacob, poet
- Chester Kallman, poet & librettist
- Moisés Kaufman, playwright
- Larry Kramer, playwright, co-founder of GMHC
- Ellen Kushner, fantasy writer
- Tony Kushner, playwright
- Boleslaw Lesmian, poet
- Arthur Laurents, playwright & librettist
- David Leavitt, writer
- Amy Levy, novelist & poet
- Jesse Liberty, writer & programmer, bisexual
- Klaus Mann, writer (Jewish mother)
- Robin Morgan, feminist writer
- Joan Nestle, writer & archivist
- Leslea Newman, author
- Marge Piercy, author
- Alejandra Pizarnik, poet
- Marcel Proust, novelist (Jewish mother)
- Marc-André Raffalovich, poet
- David Rakoff, writer
- Adrienne Rich, poet
- Maer Roshan, magazine editor
- Paul Rudnick, playwright
- Muriel Rukeyser, poet
- Umberto Saba, poet (Jewish mother)
- Siegfried Sassoon, poet (Jewish father)
- Lawrence Schimel, writer
- Sarah Schulman, writer & activist
- Delia Sherman, fantasy writer (unconfirmed)
- Martin Sherman, playwright
- Susan Sontag, essayist & novelist
- Stephen Spender, poet & essayist (Jewish maternal grandfather)
- Gertrude Stein, writer
- Julian Stryjkowski, writer
- Alice B. Toklas, literary figure
- Karen X. Tulchinsky, writer
- Rebecca Walker, feminist writer (Jewish father)
[edit] Artists
- Gilbert Adrian, fashion designer
- Ross Bleckner, painter
- Brad Braverman, photographer & video artist
- Claude Cahun, French photographer and writer[26]
- Robert Denning, interior designer
- Laurie Toby Edison, photographer
- Rudi Gernreich, fashion designer
- Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (Jewish father)
- Gluck, painter
- Frank Israel, architect
- Marc Jacobs, fashion designer
- Michael Kors, fashion designer (half Jewish)
- Annie Leibovitz, photographer
- Corrado Levi, architect, activist
- Herbert List, photographer ('part-Jewish')
- Isaac Mizrahi (1961 - ) American fashion designer[27]
- Zac Posen, fashion designer
- Benno Premsela, designer & activist
- Herb Ritts, photographer
- Simeon Solomon, painter
- Jorge Zontal, artist, member of General Idea
[edit] Sports
- Robert Dover, 6-time Olympic equestrianist[28]
- Sidney Franklin, bullfighter
- Andrew Goldstein, lacrosse player
- Dr. Renee Richards, tennis player
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Gad Beck, Holocaust survivor
- Leopold and Loeb, murderers
- Felice Schragenheim, WWII Jewish resistance fighter
[edit] Related figures
Persons of debated sexual orientation:
- King David & Jonathan, biblical characters (see David and Jonathan)
- Maya Deren, avant-garde filmmaker
- Barry Diller, media executive
- Andrea Dworkin, feminist writer
- Sergei Eisenstein, director (Jewish father)
- Anna Freud, psychoanalyst
- Emma Goldman, anarchist leader
- Herschel Grynszpan, assassin
- Moss Hart, librettist
- Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
- Danny Kaye, actor & comedian
- Calvin Klein, fashion designer
- Ed Koch, New York mayor
- Nancy Lieberman, basketball player
- Allard K. Lowenstein, US congressman
Straight contributors to LGBT culture:
- Leo Abse, British MP (gay rights campaigner)
- Bella Abzug, congresswoman (gay rights campaigner)
- Jonathan Ames, author (explores blurred boundaries in human sexuality)
- Eduard Bernstein, founder of evolutionary socialism (challenged anti-gay prejudice)
- Stanley Biber, pioneer in sex reassignment surgery
- Michael Chabon, pulitzer prize winning author, frequently writes about LGBT topics
- Hélène Cixous, feminist philosopher (contributed to queer theory)
- Job Cohen, mayor of Amsterdam (officiated first same-sex weddings)
- Irwin Cotler, Canadian Justice minister (introduced Bill C-38)
- Billy Crystal, actor (played Jodie Dallas in Soap)
- Yael Dayan, Israeli MK (gay rights campaigner)
- Jacques Derrida, philsoopher (contributed to queer theory)
- Michael Gottlieb & Joel Weisman, doctors (early identifiers of AIDS)
- Senna Hoy, anarchist (gay rights activist)
- Jonathan Larson, creator of the Broadway musical Rent
- Judith Light, actress (gay rights advocate)
- Herbert Marcuse, philosopher (influence on sexual liberation theories)
- Judd Marmor, psychiatrist (successfully campaigned to remove homosexuality from the DSM)
- Kazimiera Szczuka, feminist critic (gay rights campaigner) (Jewish mother)
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, queer theorist
- George Weinberg, psychologist (coined the word homophobia)
[edit] Fictional characters
- Arnold Beckoff, drag queen from Torch Song Trilogy
- Queer Duck Duckstein, duck from Queer Duck
- Harold, birthday celebrant from The Boys in the Band
- Daniel Hirsh, family doctor from Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Louis Ironson, court clerk from Angels in America
- Melanie Marcus, lawyer from Queer as Folk
- Marvin, husband from Falsettos
- Max, concentration camp prisoner from Bent
- Posner, student from The History Boys
- Willow Rosenberg, witch from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Jenny Schecter, fiction writer from The L Word
- Jessica Stein, journalist from Kissing Jessica Stein
- Thea, bookstore clerk from Dykes to Watch Out For
[edit] See also
- List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people
- List of transgendered people
- List of bisexual people
- List of gay, lesbian or bisexual composers
- List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in fiction and myth
- Timeline of LGBT history
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Roberta Achtenberg at Glbtq.com. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ New York Times (January 1, 1988), Sheldon Andelson, Political Fund-Raiser, 56. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Blue, Lionel, Hitchhiking to Heaven – Autobiography (Hodder & Stoughton General, 2004).
- ^ Matt & Andrej Koymasky Famous GLTB biography of Dennis Altman. Retrieved November 17, 2006.
- ^ Matt & Andrej Koymasky Famous GLTB biography of Jean-Paul Aron. Retrieved November 17, 2006.
- ^ Patner, Andrew (April 16, 2000), Allan Bloom, warts and all, Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved November 17, 2006.
- ^ Wisconsin Press, Synopsis of Midlife Queer Autobiography of a Decade, 1971–1981. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Morris, Gary (August 2002), Rare Docs on French Filmmakers, Bright Lights Film Journal. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Lynskey, Dorian (August 2, 2006), [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1835165,00.html 'I always want the funny line' ], The Guardian. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Bernhard - [1] "Bernhard is Jewish too, I fear, and a 21st-century vulgarian"
- ^ Bernhardt - [2] "Bernhardt was a 19th century Jewish actress"
- ^ Strohm, Deidre (January 22, 2004), A CONVERSATION WITH ILENE CHAIKEN, Power-up.net. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Swartz, Shauna (2006-11-21). Meet Judy (aka Jewdy) Gold. AfterEllen.com. Retrieved on 2006-11-21.
- ^ Howard Ashman on Glbtq.com. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Maclean, Gareth (September 25, 2004), Sisters under the skin, The Guardian. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Matt & Andrej Koymasky Famous GLTB biography of Jean-Pierre Barda. Retrieved November 17, 2006.
- ^ Synopsis of autobiographical But I was a Girl. Retrieved November 17, 2006.
- ^ José Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999) ISBN 0-8166-3015-1
- ^ Profile at Queermusicheritage.us. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Mackie, Drew (September 25, 2006), Jon Robin Baitz: Not Your Usual TV Writer, Afterelton.com. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
- ^ Official site biography. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
- ^ Talbot, David (March 1997), Sex is an urgent message, Salon.com. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Benstock, Shari (1986). Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900–1940. Texas: University of Texas Press, 312. ISBN 0-292-79040-6.
- ^ Profile at About.com. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Levy, Stephen (June 2004), How Can I Sex Up This Blog Business?, Wired.com. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Louise Downie: Don't Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore: London: Aperture: 2006: ISBN 1-85437-679-9
- ^ Hartog, Kelly. "Red carpet rascal", The Jerusalem Post, 2006-12-11. Retrieved on 2006-12-11.
- ^ Zeffer, Andy (July 9, 2004), Trotting Down a Different Path, Expressgaynews.com. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
