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.
Mois�s 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 - Edward Koch -- both Jewish -- the first members of
the U.S. 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 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.
Roberta Achtenberg [1950- ]; civil rights lawyer and federal
official; appointed as Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and
Equal Opportunity by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
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 [?, Jewish name], 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].
Surina Kahn -- American lesbian activist.
Larry Kessler -- founding director in 1983 of the AIDS Action
Committee of Massachusetts, the largest AIDS support
organization in New England.
Kathy Levinson -- American investor and philanthropist; serves
on the board of PlanetOut; also on NGLTF Board of Directors.
Judith Light -- actress, activist for gay causes.
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].
Susan Schuman, American executive vice-president and general
manager of the Planet Out gay and lesbian online service.
Scott Seomin, American entertainment media coordinator for the
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation [GLAAD].
Jason Serinus [Jay Guy Nassberg] -- founder and coordinator of
the Lavender Healing Network; a former gay activist with the New
York chapter of the Gay Liberation Front.
David Sine [?] -- American CEO of C1TV, the first U.S. gay and
lesbian cable TV network.
Rex Wockner -- longtime gay, American journalist who has
reported news for the gay press since 1985.
Jack Fritscher -- became Editor in Chief of Drummer gay magazine
[1977].
Leslie Feinberg [1949- ], American trade unionist, transgender
activist and author [Transgender Warriors: Making History from
Joan of Arc to RuPaul].
Allan Ginsburg - late Jewish poet and leading member of North
American Man Boy Lovers Association
You "straight" Christians and "pro-marraige" people spend a lot of time
thinking about gay men and their "weenies". One would almost think there
are some repressed sexual issues there you haven't fully explored.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson
You've missed some.
But anyway, what's your point?
....all circumsized. Coincidence?
--
Larry
> You "straight" Christians and "pro-marraige" people spend a lot of time
> thinking about gay men and their "weenies". One would almost think there
> are some repressed sexual issues there you haven't fully explored.
>
It's called the "Ted Haggard Effect".......(c;]
May be caused by candle fumes coupled with overactive imaginations.
--
Larry
[320+ lines of psychosis dumped]
Get used to reality: Schei�kopf Hitler killed himself 64 years and change
ago. Follow his lead and make the world a better place by your permanent
absence.
--
Patrick L. "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (pat...@io.com) Houston, Texas
www.io.com/~patrick/aeros.php (TCI's 2008-09 Houston Aeros) AA#2273
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