List of LGBT Jews

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This is a list of LGBT Jews. Each person is both Jewish (by birth or conversion according to Jewish law, or identifies as Jewish via ancestry) and has stated publicly that they are bisexual, gay, lesbian, pansexual, transgender, and/or queer or questioning (LGBTQ), or identify as a member of the LGBTQ community. Being both Jewish and LGBTQ is a canonical (recognized) example of some facet of each person on this list, such that the below listed person's fame or significance flows from being both Jewish and LGBTQ.

In Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, editors Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini explain:

While there are no simple equations between Jewish and queer identities, Jewishness and queerness yet utilize and are bound up with one another in particularly resonant ways. This crossover also extends to the modern discourses of antisemitism and homophobia, with stereotypes of the Jew frequently underwriting pop cultural and scientific notions of the homosexual. And vice versa.[1]

Politicians[]

Religious LGBT figures[]

See also: LGBT clergy in Judaism
  • Rebecca Alpert, lesbian professor in the Departments of Religion and Women's Studies at Temple University[23]
  • Lionel Blue, first British rabbi publicly to come out as gay; wrote Godly and Gay (1981)[24]
  • Deborah Brin, one of the first openly gay rabbis and one of the first hundred women rabbis[25]
  • Denise Eger, first female and the first openly gay President of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California; in March 2015 she became president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the largest and oldest rabbinical organization in North America, and she was the first openly gay person to hold that position[26][27][28]
  • Steven Greenberg (b. 1956), first out Orthodox rabbi and staff member of CLAL[29]
  • Dario David Hunter, American-Israeli lawyer, rabbi, educator and politician considered the first Muslim-born person to be ordained as a rabbi[30]
  • Emily Aviva Kapor, first openly transgender female rabbi[31]
  • Jason Klein, first openly gay man to head a national rabbinical association of a major US Jewish denominations (2013), when he was chosen as president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association;[32][33] also the first Hillel director to hold the presidency;[34] as of this election, he is the executive director of Hillel at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, a post he has held since 2006;[35] he will be president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association for two years[34]
  • Sharon Kleinbaum, first rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, one of the most influential rabbis in the United States[36]
  • Debra Kolodny, openly bisexual American rabbi;[37][38] edited the first anthology by bisexual people of faith, Blessed Bi Spirit (2000), to which she contributed "Hear, I Pray You, This Dream Which I Have Dreamed," about Jewish identity and bisexuality[38][39]
  • Sandra Lawson, became the first openly gay African-American and the first African-American admitted to the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2011; became the first openly gay, female, black rabbi in the world in 2018[40][41][42][43]
  • Stacy Offner, openly lesbian American rabbi who accomplished important firsts for women and lesbians in the Jewish community;[44][45] first openly lesbian rabbi in a traditional congregation; first openly lesbian rabbi hired by a mainstream Jewish congregation; first female rabbi in Minnesota; first rabbi elected chaplain of the Minnesota Senate; first female vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism; first woman to serve on the US national rabbinical pension board[44][45][46]
  • Toba Spitzer, first openly lesbian or gay person chosen to head a rabbinical association in the United States in 2007, when she was elected president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association[47]
  • Abby Stein, transgender activist, former Hasidic Jew[48]
  • Margaret Wenig, American rabbi and instructor of liturgy and homiletics at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion;[49] in 1976, she and Naomi Janowitz published Siddur Nashim, the first Jewish prayer book to refer to God using female pronouns and imagery;[50] in 1990 she wrote the sermon "God Is a Woman and She Is Growing Older," which as of 2011 has been published ten times (three times in German) and preached by rabbis from Australia to California[51]
  • Sherwin Wine (1928-2007), rabbi and founding figure in Humanistic Judaism[52]
  • Ron Yosef (b. 1974) (Hebrew: רון יוסף), Orthodox rabbi who helped found the Israeli organization Hod, which represents gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews; his organization has played a central part in the recent reevaluation of the role of religious homosexuals in the Israeli Religious Zionist movement[53]
  • Reuben Zellman, American teacher, author, and assistant rabbi and music director at Congregation Beth El[54] in Berkeley, California;[55][56] first openly transgender person accepted to the Reform Jewish seminary Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati (2003);[57][58][59][60][61] ordained by the seminary's Los Angeles campus in 2010[62][63]

Academics[]

  • Allan Bloom, philosopher[64]
  • Judith Butler, philosopher[65]
  • Yuval Noah Harari, professor and author[66]
  • Martin Duberman, historian[67]
  • Uzi Even, Israeli chemist and former Knesset member[68]
  • Lillian Faderman, American lesbian historian[69]
  • Jack Halberstam, Professor of English and Director for the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California[70]
  • Magnus Hirschfeld, sexologist and activist[71]
  • Ron Huberman, Israeli-born CEO of Chicago Public Schools[72]
  • Fritz Klein, psychiatrist and sexologist[73]
  • Joy Ladin, American professor and poet, first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution[74][75]
  • Arlene Istar Lev, clinical social worker, family therapist, and educator[76][77]
  • George Mosse, historian[78]
  • Oliver Sacks, British neurologist, naturalist, and author[77]
  • David Shneer, professor, Louis B. Singer endowed chair in Jewish History at University of Colorado, Boulder[79]
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher[80]

Show business[]

Musicians, composers, lyricists, and vocalists[]

Writers[]

Artists and architects[]

Sports figures[]

  • Robert Dover, six-time Olympic equestrian[261]
  • Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete and youth movement leader known for his attempts to save children during the Holocaust[262]
  • Gili Mossinson, basketball player[263]
  • Tzipora Obziler, tennis player[264]
  • Renée Richards, tennis player[265]
  • Sue Bird, American-Israeli[266] basketball player who has won three WNBA championships (2004, 2010, 2018), four Olympic gold medals, (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016), two NCAA Championships (2000 and 2002), and four FIBA World Cups (2002, 2010, 2014, and 2018)

Miscellaneous[]

See also[]

Footnotes[]

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