List of LGBT Jews

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This is a list of LGBT Jews. Each person is both Jewish (by ancestry or conversion) and has stated publicly that he or she is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) or identifies as a member of the LGBTQ community. Being both Jewish and LGBTQ is a canonical (recognized) example of some facet of each person on this list such that the below listed person's fame or significance flows from being both Jewish and LGBT.

In Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, editors Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini explain:

While there are no simple equations between Jewish and queer identities, Jewishness and queerness yet utilize and are bound up with one another in particularly resonant ways. This crossover also extends to the modern discourses of antisemitism and homophobia, with stereotypes of the Jew frequently underwriting pop cultural and scientific notions of the homosexual. And vice versa.[1]

Politicians

Religious LGBT figures

See also: LGBT clergy in Judaism

Academics

Show business

Musicians, Composers, Lyricists, Vocalists

Writers

Artists and Architects

Fashion Designers

Sports figures

Miscellaneous

See also

Footnotes

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  75. glbtq >> arts >> Stiller, Mauritz
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  81. Synopsis of autobiographical But I was a Girl. Retrieved November 17, 2006.
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  83. glbtq >> arts >> Blitzstein, Marc
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  88. glbtq >> arts >> Feinstein, Michael
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  118. Frank, Anne. The Diary of Anne Frank (unedited edition). Wednesday, January 5, 1944... Once when I was spending the night at Jacque's, I could no longer restrain my curiosity about her body, which she'd always hidden from me and which I'd never seen. I asked her whether, as proof of our friendship, we could touch each other's breasts. Jacque refused. I also had a terrible desire to kiss her, which I did. Every time I see a female nude, such as the Venus in my art history book, I go into ecstasy. Sometimes I find them so exquisite I have to struggle to hold back my tears. If only I had a girlfriend!
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  124. glbtq >> literature >> Dutch and Flemish Literature
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  159. Gad Beck
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  167. Charlie Rose - A conversation with Mitchell Gold
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  169. Leslie Bunder, "Entertaining Gay Israeli Troops: Gay Jewish Porn Star to Visit Israel to Show Solidarity With Country, Perform for Gay Community," Israel Jewish Scene, August 19, 2006; Corey Taylor, Naked: The Life and Pornography of Michael Lucas, Kensington Books, 2007; ISBN 978-0-7582-1750-9.
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  171. Poppick, Susie (5 March 2004). "Yalies walk a fine line down the aisle in San Francisco". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
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