Americas Jewish Leaders in the Degenerate Homosexual Movement
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Note: it is possible that a few of the people on this list are not
Jewish, e.g. a woman marrying a Jew. A question mark means "not sure about
Jewishness." This list was compiled in 2002/2003. Organizational staff members
and directors change, so it is possible that some of the information is
outdated.
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Larry Kramer -- co-founder of "Act Up," a
homosexual/AIDS activist organization; co-founder of the Gay Men's Health
Crisis
Alan Klein -- co-founder of
group ACT UP, co-founder of group Queer Nation, National Communications Director
and chief spokesperson for the Gay & LesbianAlliance Against Defamation
[GLAAD]. Klein also co-founded the successful multimedia campaign
STOPDRLAURA.COM
Arnie Kantrowitz --
co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
[GLAAD].
Jonathan D.
Katz -- founded and chairs the Harvey Milk Institute, the largest
queer studies institute in the world. A long time queer political
activist, was a co-founder of Queer Nation, [the key San Francisco
branch].
Harvey
Fierstein -- film actor [Mrs. Doubtfire]; well-known gay
activist.
Moisés Kaufman -- playwright
and film director [The Laramie Project].
Israel
Fishman -- founder of the Gay Liberation Caucus in 1970 [now known as
the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table of the American
Library Association], the world's first gay professional
organization.
Bella Abzug - Edward Koch
-- both Jewish -- the first members of the U.S. House of Representatives to
introduce legislation banning discrimination based on sexual orientation
[1974].
Winnie Stachelberg -- political
director, Human Rights Campaign [HRC]
Michael S.
Aronowitz, The New York Log Cabin Republicans.
Tony Kushner -- gay activist; Tony and 1993 Pulitzer
Prize-winning playwright [for Angels in America, 1992].
Len Hirsch -- president of the GLBT federal
government employees group, GLOBE.
Meg Moritz,
Ph.D. -- a Director and member of the Executive Committee of
GLAAD.
Barbara Raab -- an NBC-TV
producer; a "Jewish lesbian feminist journalist, writer."
Charles Kaiser [?] -- author & founding member
of National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association [NLGJA].
David Goodstein -- owner/publisher of the gay
magazine The Advocate [1975-1985]; co-founder of the National Gay Rights
Lobby.
Judy Wieder -- Editor-in-chief,
The Advocate gay magazine.
Alison
Bechdel [?] -- cartoonist creator and author of the bi-weekly comic
strip "Dykes to Watch Out For."
Kevin
Koffler -- Editor-in-chief, Genre gay magazine.
Garrett Glaser -- National Lesbian and Gay
Journalists Association [NLGJA] national board member.
Ronald Gold -- reporter for Variety; a leader in the
fight to overturn the American Psychiatric Association's policy that
homosexuality is an illness.
Magnus
Hirschfeld [d. 1935], early gay rights activist in Germany; founded
one of the first gay rights organizations, the Scientific Humanitarian
Committee; coined the term "transvestism"; fled Nazi Germany.
Fred Hochberg -- deputy administrator, U.S. Small
Business Administration; co-chair of the Human Rights Campaign
[HRC].
Michael Berman -- member, Human
Rights Campaign Board of Directors.
Mitchell
Gold -- HRC Board
Marty
Lieberman -- HRC Board
Andy
Linsky -- HRC Board
Dana Perlman
-- HRC Board
Abby Rubenfeld -- HRC
Board
Andrew Tobias -- HRC Board
Lara Schwartz -- Senior Counsel, HRC
Heather Wellman -- HRC Field Coordinator
Dan Furmansky -- HRC Senior Field Organizer,
West
Sally Green -- HRC Associate Field
Director
Rick Rosendall [?] --
President, Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, DC.
Barney Frank -- member of U.S. Congress; helped
create non-discriminatory employment policies in all U.S. federal
agencies
Kerry Lobel -- executive
director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Robin Margolis, American coordinator of the Bi
Women's Cultural Alliance and author [Bisexuality: A Practical
Guide].
Evan Wolfson, Senior Staff
Attorney, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund -- and -- the executive
director of Freedom to Marry.
Jennifer
Einhorn -- Communications Director, Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation [GLAAD]
Nancy Alpert [?]
-- Treasurer, GLAAD
Judy Gluckstern --
Board of Directors, GLAAD.
Stephen M.
Jacoby -- Board of Directors, GLAAD.
Matt
Riklin -- Board, GLAAD
Carol
Rosenfeld -- Board, GLAAD.
William
Weinberger -- Board, GLAAD
Tanya Wexler
-- Board, GLAAD.
David Huebner
-- GLAAD Counsel.
Richard Goldstein --
Village Voice writer on gay culture and politics
Ron Schlittler -- Director of Field & Policy,
Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays [PFLAG].
Craig Ziskin -- Deputy Director of Development,
PFLAG.
Debra Weill -- Senior Field
& Policy Coordinator, PFLAG.
Dody
Goldstein -- Board of Directors, PFLAG.
David Horowitz -- Board of Directors,
PFLAG.
Shawn Frank -- Board of
Directors, PFLAG.
Leon Weinstein --
Chair, Nominating Committee, PFLAG.
Kate
Kendell [?], National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Gayle Rubin -- lesbian author/activist.
Hilary Rosen -- a founding member of the Gay and
Lesbian Victory Fund; former board co-chair of the Human Rights
Campaign.
Roz Richter, American
attorney and activist.
Bob Kunst --
long-time activist in gay and Jewish causes.
"Gay, Lesbian
& Straight Education Network" [GLSEN]. Board co-chairs: Marty Seldman, president.
"National Gay &
Lesbian Task Force" [NGLTF]. Board co-chairs: ..... Rachel Rosen in Santa Fe, N.M
Dave Fleischer -- Director of Training [political
training], NGLTF.
Craig Hoffman -- Board of
Directors, NGLTF.
Beth Zemsky -- Board,
NGLTF.
Marsha C. Botzer -- Treasurer,
NGLTF.
Jeff Levi -- first, Levi was NGTF's
lobbyist, early 1980s [NGTF became NGLTF in 1985]. Later, he was NGLTF executive
director.
Bill Rubenstein, J.D. '86,
developed the ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project
Martin Duberman -- author/historian; founded the
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New
York.
Ben Schatz '81, J.D. '85, is
executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Foundation.
Kevin Schaub, American; Executive Director and Dean
of the Harvey Milk Institute in San Francisco, the world's largest center for
queer studies.
Sarah Schulman [1958- ],
American playwright, novelist, and activist [one of the founders of the Lesbian
Avengers, a direct-action lesbian rights organization].
Susan Spielman -- principal/head of Common Ground,
an education/consulting firm specializing in workplace sexual orientation
education; her company has worked with hundreds of U.S. organizations, helping
them to implement domestic partner benefits plans; co-author of the book
Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace.
Gertrude Stein -- wrote the first openly lesbian
novel, "Q.E.D.," in 1903, but it was only published posthumously in
1950.
Rikki Streicher (1925-1994),
American activist and Businesswoman.
Michael
Goff -- founded Out magazine in 1992.
Paulette Goodman -- founder of local chapter
[Washington D.C.] of PFLAG and served as President of the National PFLAG
organization from 1988-1992.
Jeffrey
Newman, American, president and COO of the Gay Financial Network;
president and CEO of out.com.
Jim Levin
-- New York gay historian.
Barrett
Brick -- GLAA [Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance]
Treasurer.
Robin Tyler -- American
comedian [born Arlene Chernick] who was the first openly gay comic in North
America; Tyler is also an activist who was the stage producer for the first
three gay marches on Washington and the national protest coordinator for the
"Stop Dr. Laura" campaign; she produces women's comedy and music festivals, and
operates a lesbian travel-tour company.
Dr. Bruce
Voeller [1935?-1994] [?] American gay rights activist, molecular
biologist, physiologist, and AIDS researcher (pioneer in the use of nonoxynol-9
as a spermicide); cofounder and first executive director of the National Gay
Task Force; creator of the Mariposa Foundation [an AIDS prevention research
organization].
Mark Elderkin [?] --
co-founded Gay.com.
Leroy Aarons --
American professor, journalist, and founder of the National Gay and Lesbian
Journalists Association (1990).
Dr. Donald I. Abrams -- American
physician, HIV expert, medical marijuana researcher, and past president of the
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association.
Johnny
Abush (1952-2000) -- [Canadian]; archivist of the International
Jewish GBLT Archives.
Roberta
Achtenberg [1950- ]; civil rights lawyer and federal official;
appointed as Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity by
President Bill Clinton in 1993.
Miriam
Ben-Shalom [1948- ], American Army Reserves drill sergeant and gay
activist; in 1986 she won a ten-year legal battle with the Reserves when a court
ordered her reinstatement; founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Veterans
Association [GLBVA] in 1990, serving as its first president.
Larry Brinkin, American gay activist who brought the
first domestic partnership lawsuit [against Southern Pacific Railroad,
1982].
Rob Eichberg, American
psychologist, co-creator of National Coming Out Day [October 11th].
Scott Evertz, American; in April 2001, President
Bush appointed him to serve as the Director of the White House Office of
National AIDS Policy [ONAP].
Gene Falk
[?, Jewish name], American business executive; Senior Vice President of the
Showtime Digital Media Group; part of the team that launched and marketed the
U.S. TV series Queer as Folk; Chair of the Board of Directors of the Gay and
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation [GLAAD].
Surina Kahn -- American lesbian
activist.
Larry Kessler -- founding
director in 1983 of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, the largest AIDS
support organization in New England.
Kathy
Levinson -- American investor and philanthropist; serves on the board
of PlanetOut; also on NGLTF Board of Directors.
Judith Light -- actress, activist for gay
causes.
David Mixner -- gay activist,
political consultant; co-founder of the Municipal Elections Committee of Los
Angeles [MECLA], a group of wealthy gays and lesbians who became influential in
local politics; president Bill Clinton's Special Liaison to the Gay-Lesbian
Community.
Dan Savage -- American
author of gay-themed books [The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I
Decided to Go Get Pregnant; Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and
the Pursuit of Happiness in America] and gay-themed- sex-advice columnist
[Savage Love].
Susan Schuman, American
executive vice-president and general manager of the Planet Out gay and lesbian
online service.
Scott Seomin, American
entertainment media coordinator for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation [GLAAD].
Jason Serinus [Jay Guy
Nassberg] -- founder and coordinator of the Lavender Healing Network;
a former gay activist with the New York chapter of the Gay Liberation
Front.
David Sine [?] -- American CEO
of C1TV, the first U.S. gay and lesbian cable TV network.
Rex Wockner -- longtime gay, American journalist who
has reported news for the gay press since 1985.
Jack Fritscher -- became Editor in Chief of Drummer
gay magazine [1977].
Leslie Feinberg
[1949- ], American trade unionist, transgender activist and author [Transgender
Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul].
Allan Ginsburg - late Jewish poet and leading member
of North American Man Boy Lovers Association