film director Peter Spears, actor and film producer Mauritz Stiller, film director Gal Uchovsky, actor Bruce Vilanch, comedy writer and actor Dale Winton, TV presenter Evan Rachel Wood, actress, model, and musician Joey Soloway, writer, director, producer, comedian Musicians, composers, lyricists, and vocalists Aderet (singer), singer-songwriter, DJ, producer Howard Ashman, musical writer Babydaddy, member of Scissor Sisters Jean-Pierre Barda, singer, actor Frieda Belinfante, conductor (she has a Jewish father) Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor Marc Blitzstein, composer Apollo Braun, musician, author Carrie Brownstein, guitarist in Sleater-Kinney Aaron Copland, composer Joel Derfner, musical theatre composer Michael Feinstein, singer and pianist William Finn, musical theatre composer, lyricist and librettist Ezra Furman, singer-songwriter God-Des (of God-Des and She) Ari Gold, pop singer Lesley Gore, pop singer Amir Fryszer Guttman, singer, musician, choreographer, actor, theater director Lorenz Hart, lyricist Jerry Herman, musical theatre composer and lyricist Vladimir Horowitz, classical pianist Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink), American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author Dana International, Israeli pop singer Rona Kenan, musician Dave Koz (born David Kozlowski), jazz saxophonist Adam Lambert, singer and runner-up on the 8th season of American Idol Ivri Lider, musician, singer Lyrik, music producer, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, singer and songwriter Doron Medalie, songwriter, composer Jon Moss, drummer, member of Culture Club and The Damned Offer Nissim, DJ, record producer Laura Nyro, singer-songwriter Peaches, Canadian electro-punk musician and performance artist Phranc, singer-songwriter Yehuda Poliker, singer-songwriter, musician, producer, painter Yehudit Ravitz, singer-songwriter, composer, record producer Marc Shaiman, musical theatre and film composer Gil Shohat, music composer, conductor and pianist Troye Sivan, South African-born YouTuber and actor Harel Skaat, singer-songwriter Socalled, rapper Stephen Sondheim, musical theatre composer and lyricist Hovi Star, singer Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, composer, and pianist Brandon Uranowitz, stage and television actor Yeho, singer, actor Writers Leroy F. Aarons, journalist, editor, author, playwright, activist founder of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) Jon Robin Baitz, playwright and screenwriter Steve Berman, speculative fiction writer Betty Berzon, author, first psychotherapist in America to come out as gay to the public (1971) Kate Bornstein, writer, playwright, performance artist, gender theorist Jane Bowles, novelist and playwright Alfred Chester, novelist Benjamin Cohen, journalist Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media Joel Derfner, writer and memoirist Gabe Dunn, writer, journalist, comedian, and actor Elana Dykewomon, American novelist Eve Ensler, playwright and performer György Faludy, poet Leslie Feinberg, activist, author Edward Field, poet Sanford Friedman,