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   Jewish Leaders in the Homosexual Movement   
      
   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.   
      
   Moises 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 and Edward Koch -- both Jewish -- the first members of the   
   US. 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   
      
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