THE LIST - A to G ------ | H to M | N to Z |
( A )
Leroy Aarons, former executive editor of The Oakland Tribune; founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association
Katherine Acey, head of the Astraea Foundation
Roberta Achtenberg, first out person ever confirmed for a subcabinet post by the Senate; former San Francisco city supervisor, now running for mayor
Margie Adam, folksinger; founder of Women's Music movement
Mitch Adams, Massachusetts state commissioner of revenue
Edward Albee, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Luis Alfaro, writer and performance artist [L]
Paula Gunn Allen, writer and activist [NA]
Dorothy Allison, novelist
Pedro Almodovar, Spanish filmmaker
Marc Almond, British pop singer
Sasha Alyson, publisher
Angunquac, activist [NA]
Tom Ammiano, schoolteacher, comedian, and San Francisco city supervisor; first openly gay municipal school board chair in U.S.
Jane Anderson, Emmy Award-winning screenwriter
Emily Anderson, photographer
Gloria Anzaldua, writer [L]
Virginia Apuzzo, New York state government official; former head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Gregg Araki, Japanese-Canadian filmmaker [A]
Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
Rebekka Armstrong, openly HIV-positive former Playboy centerfold
Alexis Arquette, actor
John Ash, poet and literary critic
John Ashbery, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Christopher Ashley, stage and film director
Kevyn Aucoin, supermodels' makeup artist
Caroline Azar, musician
( B )
Don Bachardy, artist
Guido Bachmann, writer
Nina Baehr, Genora Dancel, Pat Lagon and Joe Melillo, the two Hawaiian same-sex couples suing for the right to marry
Robert Bailey, political scientist; commentator on LGB politics
Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin state legislator
Jim Ballantine, TV producer
Ann Bancroft, explorer and teacher (*not* the actress Anne)
Ann Bannon, pioneering author of lesbian novels
Clive Barker, British horror novelist and film director
Paul Bartel, filmmaker
John Bartlett, men's fashion designer
Deborah Batts, U.S. District Court judge; first out person ever nominated or confirmed for a federal judgeship by the Senate [B]
Robert Bauman, conservative gay activist; former Republican Congressman from Maryland
Bruce Bawer, poet and neoconservative journalist
Bishop Carl Bean, founder of the Unity Fellowship Churches [B]
Amanda Bearse, actress
Alison Bechdel, cartoonist
Pia Beck, singer and pianist
Volker Beck, Green Party member of the German Bundestag
Andy Bell, lead singer of Erasure
Dodie Bellamy, writer
Lisa Ben, singer/songwriter and retired secretary; created L.A. lesbian newsletter "Vice Versa" in 1940s
Miriam Ben-Shalom, sued military for reinstatement after expulsion for being lesbian; head of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of America
Eric Bentley, critic, theatre director and translator
John Berendt, writer; former editor of New York magazine
Vernon "Copy" Berg, artist; Navy ensign who sued for reinstatement in 1970s
Sandra Bernhard, comedian
Allen Berube, historian
Betty Berzon, psychologist and author
Troix Bettencourt, prominent teenage gay activist
Elizabeth Birch, head of the Human Rights Campaign [nee Fund]; former chief counsel for Apple Computers
Joan E. Biren ("JEB"), filmmaker; director of 1987 and 1993 March on Washington videos
Bobbi Birleffi, TV producer
Blackberri, singer [B]
Mr. Blackwell, fashion designer; creator of annual "Ten Worst Dressed" list
Marie-Claire Blais, French-language Canadian novelist
Nayland Blake, artist
Robin Blaser, writer
Ross Bleckner, artist
Angela Bocage, cartoonist and writer
Dirk Bogarde, actor ( and author)
Chastity Bono, rock musician and journalist; daughter of Sonny Bono and Cher
Lizzie Borden, filmmaker
Ivy Bottini, longtime feminist and lesbian activist
Sharon Bottoms, stripped of custody of her son by Virginia courts because of her lesbian relationship
Roddy Bottum, keyboardist of Faith No More
Angela Bowie, poet and performance artist; ex-wife of David Bowie
Paul Bowles, writer
Boy George, pop star
Rev. Malcolm Boyd, Episcopal priest and writer
Kevin Boyer, schoolteacher; organizer of National Lesbian and Gay History Month
Keith Boykin, former Clinton White House aide [B]
Joe Brainard, poet and artist
Lily Braindrop, writer, editor and "vixen"
Robert Bray, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force official
Lynn Breedlove, punk rocker; singer for Tribe 8
Susie Bright, writer
Jos Brink, Dutch television host
Harry Britt, former San Francisco Board of Supervisors president
Lois Bromfield, TV writer (Roseanne)
Michael Bronski, author and journalist
Nicole Brossard, novelist
James Broughton, poet, filmmaker and playwright
Olga Broumas, poet
Forman Brown ("Richard Meeker"), writer and puppeteer
Julie Brown, comedian
Michael Brown, Conservative member of the British parliament
Rita Mae Brown, novelist
Victoria A. Brownworth, writer and newspaper columnist
John Brunner, writer
Ed Buck, Arizona businessman; led drive to recall Gov. Evan Mecham from office
Ron Buckmire, mathematician; founder of Internet's Queer Resources Directory [Afro-Caribbean]
JM J. Bullock, comic actor
Richard Burns, head of New York Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center
William S. Burroughs, novelist
Scott Burson, artist
Ellen Burstein, former New York legislator and judge; Democratic nominee for state Attorney General, 1994
Gary Burton, Grammy-winning jazz musician
Charles Busch, writer, director and actor
Aldo Busi, Italian novelist
Dan Butler, TV actor
Judith Butler, literary/"queer" theorist
Frank Buttino, former FBI special agent who sued over dismissal for being gay
Dick Button, Olympic athlete
Shannon Byrne, daughter of Cobb County, Ga., Commission Chairman Bill Byrne; father supported anti-gay resolution which led to Olympics pulling out of county, despite Shannon coming out at press conference
( C )
Paul Cadmus, artist
Jerome Caja, artist
Pat Califia, advice columnist, erotic writer and editor
Simon Callow, British actor
Peter Cameron, novelist and short-story writer
Jack Campbell, millionaire bathhouse owner and activist
Margarethe (Greta) Cammermeyer, discharged longtime National Guard officer
Scott Capurro, comedian and actor
Mandy Carter, national and regional LGB-rights activist [B]
Craig Carver, artist
Casselberry & Dupree, singers [B]
Maggie Cassella, comedian and lawyer
Jane Chambers, playwright
Marilyn Chambers, porno actress
Rt. Rev. Otis Charles, retired Episcopal bishop of Utah
Claude Charron, journalist and former Quebec cabinet minister
George Chauncey, historian
Neneh Cherry, singer [B]
Craig Chester, actor
Ken Cheuvront, Arizona state legislator
Abigail Childs, video maker
Meg Christian, singer
Christopher Ciccone, artist and set designer; brother of Madonna
Chrystos, lesbian poet and activist [NA]
Craig Claiborne, food writer
David Clarenbach, former Wisconsin state legislator, now head of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund
Joe Clark, Canadian writer (*not* the former prime minister)
Karen Clark, Minnesota state legislator
Michelle Cliff, Jamaican writer
Kate Clinton, comedian; life partner of Urvashi Vaid
Gary Cohen, physician and AIDS columnist
Jaffee Cohen, comedian
Sophia Collier, founder of Soho Natural Sodas and Working Assets mutual fund
Thom Collins, model [HIV]
Arch Connelly, artist
Janet Cooling, artist
Dennis Cooper, writer
John Corigliano, classical composer
Alfred Corn, poet
Tee A. Corrine, artist, editor and writer
Midge Costanza, White House aide to ex-President Carter
Richard Cowan, conservative businessman and marijuana-legalization leader
Amelia Craig, head of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
Louie Crew, founder of Gay Academic Union and of Integrity (gay Episcopalians)
Bill Crews, Republican mayor of Melbourne, Iowa
Douglas Crimp, art historian
Quentin Crisp, British humorist, writer, actor and gay pioneer
Michelle Crone, comedian
Mart Crowley, playwright
Wilson Cruz, TV actor [L]
Julie Cypher, filmmaker; life partner of Melissa Etheridge
( D )
James Dale, ex-Eagle Scout who sued Boy Scouts of America for discrimination
Joe Dallesandro, actor in Andy Warhol films
Mary Daly, feminist writer
Gasparino Damata, Brazilian writer
Betsy Damon, artist
Danilo, celebrity hairstylist
Jaye Davidson, British actor [mixed-race]
Juan Davila, writer
Angela Davis, professor and Communist leader [B]
Craig Dean and Patrick Gill, male couple suing D.C. government for a marriage license
John DeCecco, psychologist and journal editor
Ellen, Degeneres, comedian (hit tv series Ellen)
Donna Deitch, filmmaker
Samuel R. Delany, science-fiction writer [B]
Lea DeLaria, comedian
Theresa De Lauretis, film scholar and queer theorist
David Del Tredici, classical composer
John D'Emilio, historian
Michael Denneny, book editor
David Diamond, classical composer
David Dillon, playwright and director
Rev. Johannes Willem DiMaria-Kuiper, Dutch minister
Kim Dingle, artist
Thomas M. Disch, poet and science-fiction writer
Julie Dlugacz, co-founder and president of Olivia Records and Travel
Alix Dobkin, folksinger
Tanya Domi, kicked out of military for being lesbian; now head of NGLTF MIlitary Project
Ron Donaghe, writer
Gerard Donelan, cartoonist
Cecilia Dougherty, video maker
Tom Doyle, chair of the Fremont County (Colo.) Commission [HIV]
Raymond Dragon, fashion designer
David Drake, playwright and actor
Jerry Dreva ("Jerri Bonbon"), writer
Tom Duane, New York City Council member and Congressional candidate [HIV]
Martin Duberman, historian and autobiographer
Michael Duffy, chair of Massachusetts Human Rights Commission
Robert Edward Duncan, poet
Andrea Dworkin, radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist
Richard Dyer, film scholar and author
( E )
Sally Edwards, athlete and businesswoman
Denise Eger, Reform Jewish rabbi
George Eighmey, Oregon state legislator
Kenward Elmslie, writer and librettist
Mica England, applicant whose suit ended anti-gay discrimination by Dallas police
Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmakers
Evelien Eshius, former member of Dutch parliament
Melissa Etheridge, rock superstar
Rupert Everett, actor, rock musician and novelist
( F )
Lillian Faderman, historian
Richard Failla, New York state judge
Richard Fairbrass, lead singer of Right Said Fred
Marianne Faithfull, British rock singer
Elias Farajaje-Jones, Harvard divinity professor and bisexual activist [B]
Perry Farrell, lead singer of Porno for Pyros; formerly of Jane's Addiction
Justin Fashanu, Nigerian-born British pro soccer star [B]
Michael Feinstein, Grammy-nominated singer/somgwriter
Dominique Fernandez, French novelist
Melissa Ferrick, rock singer
Ferron, folksinger
Edward Field, poet
Harvey Fierstein, actor, playwright, director and female impersonator
Leslie Fineberg, writer and activist
William Finn, Tony-winning Broadway playwright and composer
Peter Fisher, author (The Gay Mystique)
Patrick Fitzgerald, British musucian; bassist and singer of Kitchens of Distinction
Will Fitzpatrick, Rhode Island state senator
The members of The Flirtations
Gary Floyd, leader of Sister Double Happiness
Katherine V. Forrest, mystery novelist
Ayofemi Foyalan, writer and performance artist [B]
Barney Frank, U.S. Congressman (Democrat from Massachusetts)
Tyler Franz, openly gay Bush campaign staffer who alleged being demoted and fired after complaints from religious conservatives
Aaron Fricke, author; as teenager got court order allowing him to bring a male date to his high school prom
Job Friszo, Dutch TV news reporter
Franklin Fry, co-chair of Stonewall 25
Stephen Fry, British comic actor, novelist and screenwriter
Tret Fure, folksinger
( G )
Ed Gallagher, former college football lineman
Peter Galvin, associate editor of Interview magazine
Jedd Garet, artist
Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
Sally Gearhart, professor, writer and activist
David Geffen, billionaire record and film magnate
Gordon Getty, classical composer
Robert Gentry, former Laguna Beach, Cal., city councilman; first out elected official in southern California
Sir John Gielgud, award-winning actor
Ronnie Gilbert, folksinger, member of The Weavers
Gilbert and George, visual artists
Tim Gill, millionaire software entrepreneur and philanthropist
Candace Gingrich, gay-rights activist; sister of House Speaker Newt Gingrich
Allen Ginsberg, legendary poet
Barbara Gittings, pioneering lesbian activist
Peggy Glanville-Hicks, classical composer
Garrett Glaser, TV entertainment reporter
Deborah Glick, New York state legislator
John Glines, Broadway producer
Rev. Peter Gomes, chaplain of Harvard University [B]
Jewelle Gomez, writer [B]
Letitia Gomez, head of Latino/a Lesbian and Gay Organization [L]
Marga Gomez, comedian [L]
Helen Gonzales, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force official [L]
Felix Gonzales-Torres, artist [L]
Juan Goytisolo, Spanish novelist
Annemarie Grewel, Dutch politician and scholar
John Greyson, filmmaker
Barbara Grier, co-founder of Naiad Press
Susan Griffin, feminist writer and poet
Larry Gross, writer and professor
Doris Grumbach, writer and critic
Daniel Guerin, French journalist
Thom Gunn, poet
Steve Gunderson, U.S. Congressman (Republican from Wisconsin)
Allan Gurganus, novelist
