Roberta
Achtenberg, Assistant Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development under President Clinton (first
open les/bi/gay person ever confirmed for a
subcabinet post by the Senate); former San
Francisco city supervisor
Margie
Adam,
folk singer; founder of Women's Music movement
Edward
Albee,
playwright
Paula
Gunn Allen,
Native American
writer and activist
Dorothy
Allison,
novelist
Pedro
Almodovar,
filmmaker
Sasha
Alyson,
publisher
Angunquac, Native American
activist
Tom
Ammiano,
schoolteacher, comedian, San Francisco School
Board president
Cal
Anderson,
Washington state legislator
Emily
Anderson,
photographer
Gloria
Anzaldua,
Latina writer
Virginia
Apuzzo,
New York state government official; former head
of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Gregg
Araki,
Japanese-American filmmaker
John
Ash,
poet and literary critic
John
Ashbery,
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Don
Bachardy,
artist; life partner of the late novelist
Christopher Isherwood
Guido
Bachmann,
writer
Joan
Baez,
singer
Ann
Bancroft,
explorer and teacher (*not* the actress Anne)
Paul
Bartel,
filmmaker
John
Bartlett,
fashion designer
Robert
Bauman,
conservative gay activist; former Republican
Congressman from Maryland
Bruce
Bawer,
poet and neoconservative journalist (A Place at
the Table)
Bishop
Carl Bean,
founder of the Unity Fellowship Churches
Amanda
Bearse,
actress (Marcie on Married...With Children)
Alison
Bechdel,
cartoonist
Pia
Beck,
singer and pianist
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, theater director and translator
Sandra
Bernhard,
comedian
Troix
Bettencourt, prominent teenage gay activist
Joan
E. Biren ("JEB"), filmmaker; director of
1987 and 1993 March on Washington videos
George
Birisima,
actor and playwright
Blackberri, African-American singer
Mr.
Blackwell,
fashion designer; creator of annual "Ten
Worst Dressed" list
Marie-Claire
Blais,
French-language Canadian novelist
Nayland
Blake,
artist
Robin
Blaser,
writer
Angela
Bocage,
cartoonist and writer
Dirk
Bogarde,
actor
Chastity
Bono,
rock musician; daughter of Sonny Bono and Cher
John
Boswell,
historian
Sharon
Bottoms,
Virginia woman stripped of custody of her son
solely because of her lesbian relationship
Roddy
Bottum,
keyboardist of Faith No More
Angela
Bowen,
African-American lecturer
Angela
Bowie,
poet and performance artist; ex-wife of David
Bowie
David
Bowie,
rock star and actor
Paul
Bowles,
writer
Boy
George,
pop star
Rev.
Malcolm Boyd, Episcopal priest and writer
Joe
Brainard,
poet and artist
Lily
Braindrop,
writer, editor and "vixen"
Marlon
Brando,
actor
Robert
Bray,
speaker for National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Susie
Bright,
writer
Jos
Brink,
Dutch television host
Harry
Britt,
former President of the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors
Nicole
Brossard,
novelist
James
Broughton,
poet, filmmaker and playwright
Olga
Broumas,
poet
Forman
Brown ("Richard Meeker"), writer and puppeteer
Julie
Brown,
comedian
Rita
Mae Brown,
novelist
John
Brunner,
writer
Ed
Buck,
Arizona businessman; led drive to recall Gov.
Evan Mecham from office
Ron
Buckmire,
founder of the Queer Resources Directory; Afro-Caribbean
Jm
J. Bullock, actor
Glenn
Burke,
ex-Major League baseball player
William
S. Burroughs, novelist
Scott
Burson,
artist
Charles
Busch,
writer, director and actor
Aldo
Busi,
Italian novelist
Dick
Button,
Olympic athlete
Paul
Cadmus,
artist
Jerome
Caja,
artist
Pat
Califia,
advice columnist and magazine editor
Simon
Callow,
actor
Jack
Campbell,
millionaire bathhouse owner and activist
Margarethe
(Greta) Cammermeyer, discharged longtime National
Guard officer
Renaud
Camus,
French novelist
Scott
Capurro,
comedian and actor
Craig
Carver,
artist
Casselberry
& Dupree, African-American singers
Maggie
Cassella,
comedian and lawyer
Marilyn
Chambers,
porno actress
Rt.
Rev. Otis Charles, retired Episcopal bishop of Utah
Claude
Charron,
journalist and former Quebec cabinet
minister
Neneh
Cherry,
singer
Abigail
Childs,
video maker
Margaret
Cho,
comedian
Meg
Christian,
singer
Christopher
Ciccone,
artist and set designer; brother of Madonna
Craig
Claiborne,
food writer
Joe
Clark,
Canadian journalist (*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
Arch
Connelly,
artist
Janet
Cooling,
artist
Dennis
Cooper,
writer
John
Corigliano, classical composer
Alfred
Corn,
poet
Tee
A. Corrine, artist
Midge
Costanza,
White House aide to President Carter
Quentin
Crisp,
writer, actor and humorist
Michelle
Crone,
comedian
Mart
Crowley,
playwright
Joe
Dallesandro, actor in Andy Warhol films
Mary
Daly,
feminist writer
Gasparino
Damata,
Brazilian writer
Betsy
Damon,
artist
Jaye
Davidson,
actor
Juan
Davila,
writer
Angela
Davis,
African-American professor and Communist
leader
Craig
Dean and Patrick Gill, couple suing D.C. government for
a marriage license
John
DeCecco,
psychologist and journal editor
Ellen
DeGeneris,
comedian
Donna
Deitch,
filmmaker
Samuel
R. Delany,
African-American science-fiction writer
Lea
DeLaria,
comedian
John
D'Emilio,
historian
David
Diamond,
classical composer
Rev.
Johannes Willem DiMaria-Kuiper, minister
Thomas
M. Disch,
poet and science-fiction writer
Alix
Dobkin,
folksinger
Tanya
Domi,
kicked out of military for being lesbian; now
head of NGLTF Military Project
Ron
Donaghe,
writer
Tom
Donelan,
cartoonist
Cecilia
Dougherty,
video maker
David
Drake,
playwright and actor
Jerry
Dreva ("Jerri Bonbon"), writer
Tom
Duane,
New York City Council member
Martin
Duberman,
historian and autobiographer
Michael
Duffy,
chair of Mass. Commission Against Discrimination,
appointed by Rep. Gov. William Weld
Robert
Edward Duncan, poet
Andrea
Dworkin,
radical feminist writer and anti-pornography
activist
Sally
Edwards,
athlete and businesswoman
Kenward
Elmslie,
writer and librettist
Evelien
Eshuis,
former member of Dutch parliament
Melissa
Etheridge,
rock star
Rupert
Everett,
actor, rock musician and novelist
Lillian
Faderman,
historian
Perry
Farrell,
lead singer of Jane's Addiction
Justin
Fashanu,
British pro soccer star
David
B. Feinberg, novelist
Dominique
Fernandez,
French novelist
Ferron, folksinger
Edward
Field,
poet
Harvey
Fierstein,
actor, playwright and female impersonator
William
Finn,
Tony-winning Broadway actor
Members
of The Flirtations Gary Floyd, leader of Sister Double
Happiness
Katherine
Forrest,
writer and editor
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,
writer (Reflections of a Rock Lobster); as
teenager got court order allowing him to bring a
male date to his high school prom
Job
Friszo,
Dutch TV news reporter
The
members of Funny Gay Males Ed
Gallagher,
former college football lineman
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
Sir
John Gielgud, award-winning actor
Ronnie
Gilbert,
folksinger, member of The Weavers
Gilbert
and George, visual artists
Allen
Ginsberg,
poet
Barbara
Gittings,
longtime lesbian activist
Peggy
Glanville-Hicks, classical composer
Deborah
Glick,
New York state legislator
John
Glines,
Broadway producer
Rev.
Peter Gomes, chaplain of Harvard University;
African-American
Jewelle
Gomez,
African-American writer
Marga
Gomez,
Latina comedian
Juan
Goytisolo,
Spanish novelist
Annemarie
Grewel,
Dutch politician and scholar
Barbara
Grier,
writer and publisher
Susan
Griffin,
feminist writer and poet
Larry
Gross,
writer (The Contested Closet)
Doris
Grumbach,
writer and critic
Thom
Gunn,
poet
Allan
Gurganus,
novelist
Marilyn
Hacker,
poet
Pam
Hall,
African-American folksinger
Barbara
Hammer,
filmmaker
Christopher
Hampton,
playwright
Michael
Hardwick,
challenged Georgia's sodomy law; the U.S. Supreme
Court, on a 5-4 vote, upheld the law in 1986
Joy
Harjo,
Native American poet
Sherry
Harris,
Seattle City Council member; first African-American
lesbian elected official in U.S.
Beverly
Wildung Harrison, Christian theologian
Lou
Harrison,
classical composer
Nina
Hartley,
porno actress and feminist
Bob
Hattoy,
Interior Department official, campaign adviser to
President Clinton; spoke at 1992 Democratic
convention
Harry
Hay,
founder of the modern gay-rights movement;
organized the Mattachine Society (1950) and the
Radical Faeries (1979)
Bruce
Hayes,
Olympic gold medallist in swimming
Christopher
Hayes,
actor
Todd
Haynes,
filmmaker
Lawrence
Helman,
film producer (Sex Is....)
Essex
Hemphill,
African-American poet
Nona
Hendryx,
pop singer
Joseph
Herzenberg, former vice-mayor of Chapel
Hill, N.C.
Rev.
Carter Heyward, lesbian Episcopal priest and
writer
Billy
Hileman,
schoolteacher and organizer; co-chair, 1993 March
on Washington
Marjorie
Hill,
African-American psychologist; formed head of New
York City Office of Lesbian and Gay
Concerns
Jon
Hinson,
gay-rights activist; former Republican
Congressman from Mississippi
David
Hockney,
painter
William
S. Hoffman, playwright and librettist
Andrew
Holleran,
novelist
James
Holobaugh,
expelled from ROTC for being gay (author of Torn
Allegiances)
The
Hollywood Kids (John and Lance), gossip columnists
Jeff
Horton,
member of Los Angeles School Board
Richard
Howard,
poet, translator and editor
Mark
Huestis,
filmmaker (Sex Is....)
Tom
Hulce,
Oscar-nominated actor
David
Hutter,
painter
Kate
Hutton,
seismologist
Janis
Ian,
singer
Gary
Indiana,
writer
Robert
Indiana,
artist
Patricia
Ireland,
president of the National Organization for Women
(NOW)
Bob
and Rod Jackson-Paris, pro models/bodybuilders
Marc
Jacobs,
fashion designer
Tove
Jansson,
Finnish children's writer and cartoonist; created
the Moomins
Elton
John,
pop star
Jasper
Johns,
artist
Holly
Johnson,
lead singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Phillip
Johnson,
architect
Bill
T. Jones,
African-American dancer
Cleve
Jones,
founder of The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
Grace
Jones,
singer, actress and diva
June
Jordan,
African-American writer and educator
Jose
and Luis,
Latino pop singers; former dancers for
Madonna
Lani
Ka'Ahumanu, bisexual activist and writer
Frank
Kameny,
longtime activist; first openly gay person to run
for Congress (1971)
Robin
Kane,
NGLFT "Fight the Right"
coordinator
Arnie
Kantrowitz, writer, teacher and
activist
Jonathan
Ned Katz,
historian
Michael
Kearns,
actor and writer
Dennis
Kelly,
poet
Maurice
Kenny,
poet
Kevin
Killian,
writer
Billie
Jean King,
pro tennis champion
Tommy
Kirk,
actor in Disney films
Gwen
Kirkpatrick, writer
David
Kopay,
retired NFL player
Kris
Kovick,
cartoonist and writer
Joseph
Kramer,
founder of Body Electric massage schools
Larry
Kramer,
playwright and AIDS activist; founder of ACT UP
and Gay Men's Health Crisis
Friedrich
Krohnke,
German writer
Sheila
James Kuehl, actress and journalist
Hanif
Kureishi,
novelist and screenwriter
Tony
Kushner,
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Robert
LaFosse,
ballet dancer
Kay
(Tobin) Laheusen, longtime lesbian activist and
writer
Lili
Lakich,
artist
Michael
Lane and Jim Crotty (The Monks), magazine publishers and
adventurers
k.
d. lang,
country/crossover singing star
Steve
Langly,
African-American singer
Peter
Lankhorst,
Dutch member of parliament, leader of Green Party
Jack
Larsen,
actor (Jimmy Olson on TV's Superman)
Lynn
Lavner,
comedian
Susan
Leal,
San Francisco city supervisor
David
Leavitt,
writer
Paul
de Leeuw,
singer, comedian, and Dutch TV show host
Ursula
LeGuin,
novelist
Bruce
Lehman,
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Raymond
Leppard,
conductor and classical composer
Simon
LeVay,
medical researcher; found physiological
differences between brains of gay and straight
men
Denise
Levertov,
poet
Jeffrey
Levi,
activist; former head, National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force, now heads AIDS Action Council
Mitchell
Lichtenstein, actor
Marvin
Liebman,
conservative activist, close ally of William F.
Buckley
Derek
Charles Livingston, co-chair, 1993 March on
Washington; African-American
Jenny
Livingston, filmmaker
Lance
Loud,
columnist; came out to his family on TV during
1973 PBS documentary series "An American
Family"
Greg
Louganis,
actor; three-time Olympic gold medallist in
diving
Susan
Love,
breast-cancer surgeon and famous lesbian mother
Phyllis
Lyon and Del Martin, co-founders of the Daughters of
Bilitis, first known lesbian organization in the
U.S.
Donald
Maclean,
British spy
Jean
Marais,
French actor
Eric
Marcus,
writer and television producer
Miriam
Margoyles,
actress
Johnny
Mathis,
singer
Armistead
Maupin,
writer
Glen
Maxey,
Texas state legislator
Bernard
Mayes,
journalist, priest and university dean; founding
chair of NPR
Stephen
McCauley,
novelist
Rev.
Renee McCoy, African-American minister and
activist
David
McDermott,
artist
Tim
McFeeley,
head of the Human Rights Campaign Fund
Peter
McGough,
artist
Sir
Ian McKellen, award-winning actor
Rod
McKuen,
poet and songwriter
Brian
McNaught,
writer
Rev.
John J. McNeill, Jesuit priest, scholar and
writer
Taylor
Mead,
poet and actor
Robert
Medley,
painter
Mary
Meigs,
painter
Herman
Meijer,
architect; member of Rotterdam (Netherlands) City
Council
Keith
Meinhold,
Navy officer fighting expulsion for being gay who
has won reinstatement by a federal court
Gian
Carlo Menotti, opera composer
William
Meredith,
poet
James
Ingram Merrill, poet
Duane
Michaels,
photographer
Carole
Migden,
San Francisco city supervisor
Jeff
Miller,
country singer
Tony
Miller,
acting California Secretary of State
Kate
Millett,
writer
Donna
Minkowitz,
Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist
Issac
Mizarahi,
fashion designer
David
Mixner,
millionaire businessman and gay-rights activist;
estranged friend and advisor of President Clinton
Paul
Monette,
novelist
Cherrie
Moraga,
writer
Timothy
Morange,
former president, National Association of Black
Psychologists
Mary
Morgan,
San Francisco municipal judge; life partner of
Roberta Achtenberg
Robin
Morgan,
feminist writer and editor
Tom
Morgan,
New York Times reporter; former president,
National Association of Black Journalists
Mark
Morris,
dancer and choreographer
Morrissey, rock star
Dee
Mosbacher,
public health administrator and activist;
daughter of ex-President Bush's campaign chairman
and Secretary of Commerce
Thierry
Mugler,
fashion designer
Alex
Munter,
Kanata, Ontario, city councillor
Michael
Nelson,
Carrboro, N.C., alderman
Diane
Murphy,
child actress (Tabitha on Bewitched)
George
Nader,
actor and science fiction novelist
Nalty, comedian
Martina
Navratilova, pro tennis champion
Three
of the "NEA Four" (John Fleck, Holly
Hughes and Tim Miller), performance artists whose
federal grants were cut off because of homoerotic
content in their work during the Bush
administration
Holly
Near,
folksinger
Joan
Nestle,
writer
Leslea
Newman,
children's writer (Heather Has Two Mommies,
Gloria Goes to Gay Pride)
Simon
Nkoli,
South African anti-apartheid and gay-rights
activist
Elaine
Noble,
first openly lesbian or gay person elected to a
state legislature (Massachusetts, 1974)
Pat
Norman,
African-American organizer; co-chair of 1987
March on Washington and Stonewall 25
Harold
Norse,
poet
Richard
Bruce Nugent, writer and artist
The
members of The Nylons, Canadian all-male a capella
singers
Ron
Nyswaner,
Academy Award-nominated screen writer (Philadelphia)
Erwin
Olaf,
photographer
Todd
Oldham,
fashion designer
Mary
Oliver,
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Jenni
Olsen,
filmmaker, writer and curator
Donald
Olson,
writer
Torie
Osborn,
former head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force
Annemiek
Onstenk,
member of Amsterdam City Council
Antonio
Pagan,
member of New York City Council; Latino
Camille
Paglia,
writer
Dave
Pallone,
ex-Major League umpire
Juan
Palomo,
newspaper columnist; Latino
Robert
Patrick,
playwright
Charlotte
Patterson,
research psychologist and professor; studies
children of lesbian and gay parents
Larry
Paul,
Atlanta municipal judge
Ross
Paxton,
artist
Darcy
Penteado,
Brazilian writer
Rev.
Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan
Community Churches
Robert
Peters,
poet, critic and teacher
Roger
Peyrefitte, French writer
Phranc, folksinger
Felice
Picano,
writer
Charles
Pierce,
female impersonator
Marge
Piercy,
writer
Jody
Pinto,
artist
The
members of Pomo Afro Homos, African-American gay
comedy troupe
Iggy
Pop,
rock star
Jill
Posner,
photographer
Minnie
Bruce Pratt, poet and teacher
Rosa
von Praunheim, German filmmaker
Benno
Premsela,
designer and early European gay movement
leader
Deb
Price,
Gannett newspapers columnist
Edward
Reynolds Price, novelist
Rev.
Dusty Pruitt, MCC minister; sued military for
reinstatement after expulsion for being
lesbian
Peri
Jude Radecic, head of the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force
Anne-Imelda
Radice,
acting head of the National Endowment for the
Arts (NEA) under ex-President Bush; denied grants
for homoerotic art
Anthony
Rapp,
actor (Dazed and Confused, Six Degrees of
Separation)
Toshi
Reagon,
African-American folksinger
John
Rechy,
writer
Donna
Red Wing,
led campaign to defeat Ballot Measure 9 in
Oregon; Advocate Woman of the Year 1992
Lou
Reed,
rock star
Kenneth
Reeves,
mayor of Cambridge, Mass.; African-American
Reno, comedian
Gerard
Reve,
Dutch novelist
Frank
Ricchiazi,
campaign co-chair for California Gov. Pete
Wilson, 1990
Adrienne
Rich,
poet and critic
Marlon
Riggs,
African-American filmmaker
Herb
Ritts,
photographer
Larry
Rivers,
painter and sculptor
Svend
Robinson,
member of the Canadian Parliament
Tom
Robinson,
singer/songwriter
Robert
Rodi,
novelist
Edouard
Herbert Roditi, writer
Eric
Rofes,
writer
Romanovsky
and Phillips, folksingers
Ned
Rorem,
classical composer and writer
Jan
Rot,
Dutch pop musician
Gabriel
Rotello,
New York Newsday columnist, former editor of
OutWeek
A.
L. Rowse,
historian
William
Rubinstein, gay-rights lawyer
Paul
Rudnick,
playwright and screen writer Jane Rule, writer
RuPaul, African-American drag
entertainer extraordinaire
Joanna
Russ,
feminist and science-fiction writer
Paul
Rutherford, singer, Frankie Goes to
Hollywood
Leigh
Rutledge,
writer (The Gay Book of Lists, etc.)
Keith
St. John,
alderman, Albany, N.Y.; African-American
Yves
Saint-Laurent, fashion designer
Dick
Sargent,
actor (second Darrin on Bewitched)
Jose
Sarria,
drag entertainer; first openly gay candidate for
public office in U.S. history (San Francisco,
1961)
May
Sarton,
writer
Benjamin
Schatz,
lawyer and activist
John
Schlafly,
son of anti-gay conservative activist Phyllis
Schlafly and lawyer for her organization, the
Eagle Forum
John
Schlesinger, filmmaker
Maria
Schneider,
actress
Sarah
Schulman,
writer and activist
James
Schuyler,
poet
David
Scondras,
former Boston City Council member
Scout, lesbian activist and
organizer; co-chair, 1993 March on Washington
Antony
Sher,
South African-British novelist and actor
Siegfried
and Roy,
animal trainers and illusionists
Michelangelo
Signorile,
journalist, activist, co-founder of Queer Nation
Aguinaldo
Silva,
Brazilian writer
Charles
Silverstein, psychologist and writer; co-author,
The Joy of Gay Sex
Roy
Simmons,
former New York Giants tackle
Ingrid
Sischy,
editor of Interview magazine
Dave
Slattery,
former general manager, Washington Redskins
Christopher
Smith,
member of the British Parliament
Barbara
Smith,
African-American publisher
Mike
Smith,
co-founder (with Cleve Jones) of The Names
Project
Nadine
Smith,
co-chair, 1993 March on Washington
Jimmy
Somerville, pop singer
James
Spada,
writer
Allan
Spear,
president of the Minnesota State Senate Stephen
Spender, poet and critic
Martin
Sperr,
German writer
Stephen
Spinella,
actor
Annie
Sprinkle,
writer and erotic photographer
Starhawk, feminist theologian and
spiritual teacher
Joe
Steffan,
top Naval Academy cadet expelled for being gay,
now suing for reinstatement
Doug
Stevens,
country singer; leader of The Out Band
Samuel
Steward ("Phil Andros"), writer
Tom
Stoddard,
gay-rights lawyer; former head of Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund, now heads Campaign
for Military Service
Jeff
Stryker,
star of gay, straight and bi porno films
Gerry
Studds,
U.S. Congressman (Democrat from Massachusetts)
Suede, blues singer and
trumpet player
Andrew
Sullivan,
editor of The New Republic magazine David Surber,
co-host and producer of Network Q
Terry
Sweeney,
comedian
Rich
Tafel,
former head of Log Cabin Federation, gay
Republican group which refused to endorse George
Bush for re-election
Mutsuo
Takahashi,
Japanese poet
Carla
Tardi,
artist
Valerie
Terrigno,
first mayor of West Hollywood, Cal.
Karen
Thompson,
obtained custody of her disabled lover Sharon
Kowalski after six-year court battle
Scott
Thompson,
comedian
Tracy
Thorne,
U.S. Navy lieutenant discharged after coming out
on Nightline
Andrew
Tobias ("John Reid"), Wall Street Journal
editor and writer
Jonathan
Tolins,
playwright (Twilight of the Golds)
Lily
Tomlin,
comedian/actress
Michel
Tournier,
French writer
Pete
Townshend,
lead guitarist of The Who, composer
Michel
Tremblay,
Quebecois novelist and playwright
Arthur
Tress,
photographer
Monika
Treut,
German filmmaker
C.
A. Tripp,
psychologist
Tommy
Tune,
Tony-winning Broadway singer/actor
Robin
Tyler,
first "out" comedian; rally/festival
producer and activist
Urvashi
Vaid,
national movement leader; former head, National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force; life partner of Kate
Clinton
Annelize
van de Stoel, member of Amsterdam City Council
Gus
Van Sant,
filmmaker
Rev.
Herman Verbeek, Catholic priest, Dutch member of
European Parliament
Gore
Vidal,
novelist
Most
members of Village People Linda
Villarosa,
editor of Essense magazine
Jane
Wagner,
playwright; life partner of Lily Tomlin
John
Waters,
filmmaker
Sgt.
Perry Watkins (ret.), won Supreme Court case for
reinstatement to Army after expulsion for being
gay; African-American
William
Waybourn,
head of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund
George
Weinberg,
psychologist; coined the term "homophobia"
in his book "Society and the Healthy
Homosexual"
Suzanne
Westenhoeffer, comedian
Edmund
White,
novelist
Rev.
Mel White,
former aide to Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson;
now MCC minister, writer and lecturer against
Religious Right
John
Wieners,
poet
Gale
Wilhelm,
novelist
Michael
Wilhoite,
children's writer (Daddy's Roommate)
Danny
Williams,
comedian
Jonathan
Williams,
poet and teacher
Karen
Williams,
comedian; co-host, PBS's In The Life
Cris
Williamson, folksinger
Val
Wilmer,
photographer and writer
Barbara
Wilson,
writer and publisher
Millie
Wilson,
artist
Phill
Wilson,
AIDS director for City of Los Angeles; founder,
Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum
Fran
Winant,
artist
Jeanette
Winterson,
novelist
Monique
Wittig,
writer
B.
D. Wong,
Tony-winning Broadway actor; Asian
Holly
Woodlawn,
actor in Andy Warhol films
James
D. Woods,
professor and author (The Corporate Closet)
Ivy
Young,
head of NGLTF Family Project; African-American
Bohdan
Zachary,
filmmaker
Jose
Zuniga,
U.S. Army sergeant,1992 6th Army Solider of the
Year; discharged for saying he was gay after
Clinton took office.
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