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The following is a list of some prominent LGBT Jews.
Politicians
- Roberta Achtenberg, former HUD assistant secretary[1]
- Barney Frank, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives [2]
- Mark Leno, California State Assemblymember[3]
- Peter Mandelson European Commissioner for Trade, former British cabinet member.[4]
- Carole Migden, California State Senator[5]
- Harvey Milk, San Francisco city supervisor [6]
Religious figures
See also: List of LGBT Rabbis
- Rabbi Lionel Blue, first openly gay rabbi in the UK; broadcaster[7]
- Rabbi Steven Greenberg[8]
- Rabbi Greg Kantor[3], Lives in southern Florida.
- Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum[4], Senior Rabbi of New York City's Congregation Beth Simchat Torah (CBST) since 1992.
Academics
- Allan Bloom, philosopher[9]
- Judith Butler, philosopher[10]
- Martin Duberman, historian[11]
- Magnus Hirschfeld, sexologist and activist[12]
- Fritz Klein, psychiatrist and sexologist[13]
- George Mosse, historian[14]
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher[15]
Show business
- Chantal Akerman, film director[16]
- Simon Amstell, comedian and television presenter[17]
- Michael Bennett, choreographer and musical theatre director[18][19]
- Sandra Bernhard (b. 1955) actress and comedian[20]
- Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) world-famous stage actress[21]
- Ilene Chaiken, creator of The L Word[22]
- Allan Corduner, actor[23]
- George Cukor, film director[24]
- Harvey Fierstein, actor and playwright[25]
- Eytan Fox, film director[26]
- Stephen Fry, actor, comedian and writer[27]
- Judy Gold (b. 1962) stand-up comedian and actress[28]
- Todd Haynes, film director[29][30]
- Tab Hunter, actor (Jewish father)[31][32]
- Nicholas Hytner, theatre and film director[33]
- Danny Kaye, actor and comedian[34][35]
- Mia Kirshner, actress, The L Word [36]
- Stuart Krasnow, reality television producer [37]
- Matt Lucas, comedian (Little Britain)[38]
- Inge Meysel, actress (Jewish father)[39][40]
- Jerome Robbins, choreographer and musical theatre director[41]
- John Schlesinger, film director[42]
- Adam Shankman, film director[43]
- Anthony Sher, actor[44]
- Bryan Singer, film director[45]
- Mauritz Stiller, film director[46]
- Kim Stolz, Model, competed in 5th cycle of America's Next Top Model, MTVVJ
- Bruce Vilanch, comedy writer and actor[47]
Musicians
- Howard Ashman, musical writer[48]
- Babydaddy, member of Scissor Sisters[49]
- Frieda Belinfante, conductor (Jewish father)[50]
- Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor[51]
- Marc Blitzstein, composer[52]
- Aaron Copland, composer[53]
- Vaginal Davis, performance artist (Jewish father)[54]
- Fred Ebb, musical theatre lyricist[55]
- Michael Feinstein, singer and pianist[56] [57]
- William Finn, musical theatre composer, lyricist and librettist[58]
- Carrie Brownstein, Sleater-Kinney guitarist [59]
- Ari Gold, pop singer[60]
- Lesley Gore, pop singer[61]
- Lorenz Hart, lyricist[62]
- Jerry Herman, musical theatre composer and lyricist [63]
- Vladimir Horowitz, classical pianist[64]
- Jon Moss, drummer, member of Culture Club and The Damned[65]
- Laura Nyro, singer-songwriter[66][67]
Peaches , musician[68]- Phranc, singer-songwriter[69]
- Lou Reed, rock musician[70]
- Marc Shaiman, musical theatre and film composer[71] [72]
- Stephen Sondheim, musical theatre composer and lyricist[73] [74]
- Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, composer, and pianist.[75]
Writers
- Jon Robin Baitz, playwright and screenwriter[76]
- Steve Berman, speculative fiction writer[77]
- Jane Bowles, novelist and playwright[78]
- Susie Bright (1958 – ) American writer and broadcaster[79]
- Bryher, novelist (probably Jewish father)[80]
- Charles Busch, playwright[81]
- Alfred Chester, novelist[82]
- Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media (Jewish mother)[83]
- Lillian Faderman, memoirist and gay/lesbian historian
- György Faludy, poet[84][85]
- Hubert Fichte, writer (Jewish father)[86]
- Edward Field, poet[87]
- Sanford Friedman, novelist[88]
- Allen Ginsberg, poet[89]
- Richard Greenberg, playwright[90]
- Jacob Israël de Haan, poet[91]
- Marilyn Hacker, poet[92]
- William Hoffman, playwright[93]
- Max Jacob, poet[94]
- Chester Kallman, poet and librettist[95]
- Moisés Kaufman, playwright and theatre director, co-wrote The Laramie Project[96]
- Larry Kramer, novelist, playwright and activist[97]
- Tony Kushner - playwright and screenwriter (Angels in America and the 2006 Steven Spielberg movie Munich)
- Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter and librettist[98]
- David Leavitt, novelist and short-story writer[99]
- Michael Lowenthal, novelist[100]
- Harold Norse, poet[101]
- Marcel Proust, novelist[102]
- David Rakoff, essayist[103]
- Paul Rudnick, playwright, screenwriter and columnist[104]
- Umberto Saba, poet and novelist[105]
- Siegfried Sassoon, poet (Jewish father)[106]
- Martin Sherman, playwright[107]
Susan Sontag , essayist and novelist[108] [109]- Gertrude Stein, writer[110]
- Julian Stryjkowski, novelist[111]
- Rebecca Walker, writer and feminist (Jewish father)
Artists
- Claude Cahun, French photographer and writer[112]
- Nan Goldin, photographer[113][114]
- Marc Jacobs, fashion designer[115]
- Annie Leibovitz, photographer[116][117]
- Herbert List, photographer[118]
- Isaac Mizrahi (1961 - ) American fashion designer[119]
- Simeon Solomon, painter[120]
- Salman "Tinkerbell" Daniel - writer of many homosexual plays involving himself with multiple men.
Sports figures
- Robert Dover, 6-time Olympic equestrianist[121]
- Renee Richards, tennis player[122]
- Jack Waters, horse trainer
Miscellaneous
- Gad Beck, Holocaust survivor and memoirist[123]
- Roy Cohn, lawyer and co-counsel--along with Robert F. Kennedy--to Sen. Joseph McCarthy[124]
- Barry Diller, media executive[125] [126]
- Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles[127]
- David Geffen, film producer and record executive[128]
- Sandy Gallin, manager, talent agent and producer[129][130]
- Leopold and Loeb, murderers[131]
- Michael Lucas, porn star[132]
- Richard Quine, television journalist[133]
- Bryan James Whitley, journalist, executive director, and gay rights activist[134]
Related figures
Persons of debated sexual orientation:
- Anna Freud, psychoanalyst[135]
- Moss Hart, playwright and theatre director[136]
- Calvin Klein, fashion designer[137]
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, philosopher (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)
Fictional characters
- See also: List of fictitious Jews
See also
- Keshet Rabbis
- 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
- Homosexuality and Judaism
Footnotes
- ^ Roberta Achtenberg at glbtq.com. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/10/02/to_be_frank/
- ^ http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/1998/December-January/leno.html
- ^ Article about Peter Mandelson.
- ^ http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/3366/edition_id/60/format/html/displaystory.html
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/milk_h.html
- ^ Blue, Lionel, Hitchhiking to Heaven – Autobiography (Hodder & Stoughton General, 2004).
- ^ Wrestling with Steven Greenberg - an interview with Steven Greenberg by Jay Michaelson.
- ^ Patner, Andrew (April 16, 2000), Allan Bloom, warts and all, Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved November 17, 2006.
- ^ http://www.lolapress.org/elec2/artenglish/butl_e.htm
- ^ Wisconsin Press, Synopsis of Midlife Queer Autobiography of a Decade, 1971–1981. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/6329/edition_id/118/format/html/displaystory.html
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1800759,00.html
- ^ http://www.jeetheer.com/politics/mosse.htm
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/wittgenstein_l.html
- ^ Morris, Gary (August 2002), Rare Docs on French Filmmakers, Bright Lights Film Journal. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Lynskey, Dorian (August 2, 2006), 'I always want the funny line' , The Guardian. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail.asp?id=40864&page=1
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/bennett_m.html
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2000_Feb_15/ai_59410464
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- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/literature/jewish_am_lit,4.html
- ^ http://wjff.blogspot.com/2006/12/sharing-vision-life-work-and-clothes.html
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/fry_s.html
- ^ Swartz, Shauna (2006-11-21). Meet Judy (aka Jewdy) Gold. AfterEllen.com. Retrieved on 2006-11-21.
- ^ http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=10166
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- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/hunter_t.html
- ^ http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=3677
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/stage_actors_actresses,5.html
- ^ http://www-in.brooklyn.liu.edu/depts/urbanstudies/dorinson.html
- ^ [www.thelwordonline.com/Mia_NYTarticle.shtml
- ^ Stuart Krasnow's MySpace.
- ^ http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20061203/ai_n16890734
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- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/books/review/Rockwell.t.html?ex=1325221200&en=eca4a27214d3b8d8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
- ^ http://emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=2834
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_March_4/ai_98172209
- ^ http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/biginterview/display/cm/contentId/73310
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/04/25/bryan_singer_x_men_2_interview.shtml
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/stiller_m.html
- ^ http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9803EED6103BF935A25756C0A9669C8B63http://www.glbtq.com/literature/mann_k.html
- ^ Howard Ashman on Glbtq.com. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Maclean, Gareth (September 25, 2004), Sisters under the skin, The Guardian. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ Synopsis of autobiographical But I was a Girl. Retrieved November 17, 2006.
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/bernstein_l.html
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/blitzstein_m.html
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/copland_a.html
- ^ José Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999) ISBN 0-8166-3015-1
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/kander_j.html
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/feinstein_m.html
- ^ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/MFeinstein.html
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/finn_w.html
- ^ 'Queer' no longer stings; it rocks
- ^ http://www.glbtjews.org/article.php3?id_article347
- ^ http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?sec=article&article_id=4926
- ^ http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/23/wordsmusic.html
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/herman_j.html
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1DF163CF933A05751C1A964958260
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/boy_george.html
- ^ http://www.salon.com/april97/sharps/nyro970411.html
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- ^ http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/11/05/phranc/index.html
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- ^ http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?id=12656
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/shaiman_m.html
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/sondheim_s.html
- ^ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Sondheim.html
- ^ Morley Safer (5 February 2006). The Passion Of Michael Tilson Thomas. CBS News. Retrieved on 2007-01-28.
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E0D61639F930A2575AC0A967948260
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/chester.html
- ^ Levy, Stephen (June 2004), How Can I Sex Up This Blog Business?, Wired.com. Retrieved November 18, 2006.
- ^ http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-14099.html
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1656_284/ai_n6141789
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/literature/fichte_h.html
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/literature/field_e.html
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/literature/jewish_am_lit,2.html
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_199707/ai_n8771729/pg_7
- ^ http://new.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1144
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/literature/dutch_flemish_lit,3.html
- ^ http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2006/spring/hacker-mimesis/
- ^ http://www.glbtq.com/literature/jewish_am_lit,4.html
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,994351,00.html
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