List of LGBTQ Jews

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This is a list of LGBT Jews. Each person is both Jewish (by birth or conversion according to Jewish law, or identifies as Jewish via ancestry) and has stated publicly that they are bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and/or queer or questioning (LGBTQ), or identify 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 LGBTQ.

Academia and education

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Activism & civil rights

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Drăgan Flaviu
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Barbara Brenner
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Jonathan Danilowitz
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Jazz Jennings
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Frank Kameny
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Cameron Kasky
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Larry Kramer
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Ezra Nawi
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Dana Olmert
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Etai Pinkas
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Ron Yosef
  • Drăgan Flaviu, Executive Director of the research operation "Aurora Rubiniu," human rights activist, and author of the book about Nazi thinking "Lupta mea pentru viață!"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Mason J. Dunn, American lawyer, educator, and LGBTQ+ rights advocate<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Cameron Kasky, gun control activist<ref name="Reboot2021">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Larry Kramer, author, playwright, activist with ACT-UP
  • Ezra Nawi, Israeli human rights activist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Arts

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Drag performers

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  • Flawless Sabrina, American drag queen and activist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Jinkx Monsoon, American drag queen, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Joey Jay, American drag queen<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Sasha Velour, American drag queen and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Fashion

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  • Isaac Mizrahi, American fashion designer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Zac Posen, American fashion designer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Arnold Scaasi, Canadian-born American fashion designer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Film, television & theater

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  • Orna Banai, actress, comedian<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Michael Bennett, choreographer and musical theatre director<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Judy Gold, stand-up comedian and actress<ref name="judy1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Matan Hodorov, journalist, TV presenter<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Nicholas Hytner, theatre and film director<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Asi Levy, actress<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Dan Levy, actor, writer, and comedian
  • Matt Lucas, comedian and actor<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Michael Lucas, entrepreneur, filmmaker, and pornographic film star<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Max Rhyser, actor<ref name=Im>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Jonathan Sagall, actor, director and screenwriter<ref>"OUT! - 800 berühmte Lesben, Schwule und Bisexuelle" by Axel Schock & Karen-Susan Fessel, Querverlag, Berlin 2004, Template:ISBN</ref>
  • John Schlesinger, film director<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Bryan Singer, film director<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Joey Soloway, writer, director, producer, comedian<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Peter Spears, actor and film producer<ref name="deepchords">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Does Hollywood give Jewish?. Jewish Journal. July 27, 2007. ["And then there are those who pick and choose their causes specific to their own personal development. Peter Spears, as just one example, came to Hollywood for his work, but recently found himself on a mission to Israel's film industry, which helped him to rediscover his Jewish self in the process."]
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  • Robin Tyler, comic and activist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Dale Winton, TV presenter<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Literature

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  • Kate Bornstein, writer, playwright, performance artist, gender theorist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Sue-Ann Levy, columnist<ref name="shupac">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Music

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  • William Finn, musical theatre composer, lyricist and librettist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Avery Friedman, musician and singer-songwriter<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ari Gold, pop singer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Lesley Gore, pop singer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Amir Fryszer Guttman, singer, musician, choreographer, actor, theater director<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Lorenz Hart, lyricist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Jerry Herman, musical theatre composer and lyricist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ivri Lider, musician, singer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Doron Medalie, songwriter, composer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Peaches, Canadian electro-punk musician and performance artist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Phranc, singer-songwriter<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Yehuda Poliker, singer-songwriter, musician, producer, painter<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Gil Shohat, music composer, conductor and pianist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Politics

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  • Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, first transgender person to be LGBT liaison to the White House<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ron Galperin, city controller of Los Angeles, first openly gay person elected citywide in Los Angeles<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Jackie Goldberg, former California State Assembly member for Los Angeles<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Anne Kronenberg, American political administrator<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Sheila Kuehl, former California state senator for Los Angeles<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Mark Leno, former California State Assembly member for San Francisco<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Mark Levine, former member of the Virginia House of Delegates<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Rafael Mandelman, San Francisco city supervisor<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Carole Migden, former California state senator for San Francisco<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Harvey Milk, former San Francisco city supervisor, first openly gay person elected to public office in the United States<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Jeremy Moss, Michigan State Senator<ref name="vfund-moss">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Amir Ohana, first openly gay Israeli minister and Knesset speaker<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Itzik Shmuli, politician<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Religion

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  • Rebecca Alpert, lesbian professor in the Departments of Religion and Women's Studies at Temple University<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Lionel Blue, first British rabbi publicly to come out as gay; wrote Godly and Gay (1981)<ref name="Happy">Template:Cite news</ref>
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  • Dario David Hunter, American-Israeli lawyer, rabbi, educator and politician considered the first Muslim-born person to be ordained as a rabbi<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Debra Kolodny, openly bisexual American rabbi;<ref name="jewishreview1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Stacy Offner, openly lesbian American rabbi who accomplished important firsts for women and lesbians in the Jewish community;<ref name="Like Bread">Alpert, R.T., Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition, Columbia University Press, 1998.</ref><ref name="URJ">Rabbi Offner Template:Webarchive, Union for Reform Judaism website. Retrieved 2011-11-05.</ref> first openly lesbian rabbi in a traditional congregation; first openly lesbian rabbi hired by a mainstream Jewish congregation; first female rabbi in Minnesota; first rabbi elected chaplain of the Minnesota Senate; first female vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism; first woman to serve on the US national rabbinical pension board<ref name="Like Bread" /><ref name="URJ" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Sports

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Business, industry and labor

Miscellaneous

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