Moisés Kaufman Playwright and film director [The Laramie Project].

	Judith Light Actress, activist for gay causes.

Rex Wockner Longtime gay, American journalist who has reported news for the gay press since 1985.
Alison Bechdel Cartoonist creator and author of the bi-weekly comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For."

And The List Goes On And On

Charles Kaiser [?] -- author & founding member of National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association [NLGJA].

 

 

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.

 

 

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

Robin Margolis, American coordinator of the Bi Women's Cultural Alliance and author [Bisexuality: A Practical Guide].

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

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, 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].

 

Larry Kessler -- founding director in 1983 of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, the largest AIDS support organization in New England.

 

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].

 

Scott Seomin, American entertainment media coordinator for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation [GLAAD].

 

David Sine [?] -- American CEO of C1TV, the first U.S. gay and lesbian cable TV network.