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: Politicians Roberta Achtenberg, former HUD assistant secretary Yossi Avni-Levy, diplomat Volker Beck, German politician and member of The Greens Sam Bell, Rhode Island Senate member. David Cicilline, the Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, member of the United States House of Representatives Barney Frank, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives Marcia Freedman, former member of the Israeli Knesset Ron Galperin, City Controller of Los Angeles, first openly gay person elected citywide in Los Angeles Nitzan Horowitz, Israeli Member of Knesset, first openly gay person elected to the Knesset Rebecca Kaplan, City Councilmember At-Large, Oakland, California Anne Kronenberg, American political administrator Mark Leno, California State Assembly member Carole Migden, former California State Senator Harvey Milk, former San Francisco city supervisor, first openly gay person to be elected to public office in the United States Jeremy Moss, Michigan State Senator Amir Ohana, first openly gay right-wing member of the Knesset Jared Polis, Colorado Democrat and a former Internet entrepreneur; became the first openly gay non-incumbent male elected to Congress; elected Governor of Colorado in 2018 Stan Rosenberg, President Pro Tempore, Massachusetts State Senate Barbra Casbar Siperstein, first openly transgender member of the Democratic National Committee Itzik Shmuli, politician Religious LGBT figures Rebecca Alpert, lesbian professor in the Departments of Religion and Women's Studies at Temple University Lionel Blue, first British rabbi publicly to come out as gay; wrote Godly and Gay (1981) Deborah Brin, one of the first openly gay rabbis and one of the first hundred women rabbis 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