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.
