- Judith Butler
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and the present chair of the Rhetoric Department. Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, … - Susie Bright
Susannah "Susie" Bright (also known as Susie Sexpert) (born March 25, 1958, Arlington, Virginia) is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality. She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist. She has a weekly program entitled "In Bed with Susie Bright" distributed through audible.com, where she discusses a variety of social, freedom of speech and sex-related topics. - Nancy Wilson
The Reverend Elder Nancy Wilson is the Moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC or Metropolitan Community Churches). On Sunday 29 October 2005 in Washington's National Cathedral, Nancy Wilson was installed as Moderator of the Metropolitan Community Church in succession to the denomination's founder, Troy Perry. - Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg (born 1949) is a transgender activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg is a high ranking member of the Workers World Party and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper. Feinberg's writings on LGBT history, "Lavender & Red," frequently appear in the "Workers World" newspaper. Feinberg's partner is the prominent lesbian poet-activist Minnie Bruce Pratt. - Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea (born Michelle Tomasik in 1971) is an American author, poet and ex-prostitute originally from Chelsea, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston). She currently lives in San Francisco. Tea was the co-founder of the Sister Spit spoken word tour. Her books, mostly memoirs, are known for their views into the riot grrrl and queercore communities. She has toured with the Sex Worker's Art Show alongside Ducky DooLittle and others. - Judith Halberstam
Judith Halberstam is professor of English and director of the Center for Feminist Research at USC. She is the author of Female Masculinity (Duke), The Drag King Book (Serpent's Tail) and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (forthcoming, NYU). - Carol Queen
Carol Queen is an American author, editor, and sexologist active in the sex-positive feminist movement. Queen has written essays, analyses, and erotica, including "Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture", and the novel "The Leather Daddy and the Femme". She has also served as editor for many compilations and anthologies on human sexuality, and written regular features for "Good Vibrations" magazine, … - Tiina Rosenberg
Tiina Rosenberg (born 1958 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Professor of Gender Studies at Lund University in Sweden. She was formerly professor of Theatre Studies and lecturer of Gender Studies at Stockholm University. She received her Ph.D. in 1993. Tiina Rosenberg defines herself as a Queer Feminist and was instrumental in introducing Queer theory in Sweden. - Scott Free
Scott Free is a Chicago-based queer punk/folk/rap artist. He received two Outmusic Awards in 2005. He was named Outmusician of the Year for his CD 'They Call Me Mr. Free' and his community activism. His song "Another Day of the Cruelty" was named Out Song of the Year. He was inducted into the Stonewall Society's GLBT Hall Of Fame in 2005. - Daphne Gottlieb
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the editor of Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader (Soft Skull Press, 2005), as well as the author of Final Girl (Soft Skull Press, 2003), Why Things Burn (Soft Skull Press, 2001) and Pelt (Odd Girls Press, 1999). Final Girl was the winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for 2003 from Publishing Triangle. - Christine Vachon
Christine Vachon (b. 1962, Manhattan, New York City) is an American movie producer known for producing challenging, independent films which also happen to be commercially successful. Vachon came to prominence as the producer of a number of films with a Queer theme in the early 1990s, and has been called the "godmother" of New Queer Cinema, although she herself resists the title. - Elizabeth Stuart
Dr Elizabeth Stuart is a leading UK theologian specialising in Queer Theology. - Justin Bond
Justin Bond is a celebrated queer iconic performer out of New York City. He is most well known as one of his drag incarnations, Kiki, an aging, bitter chanteuse known for her raucous and edgy medleys of unusual cover songs. She performs with her piano-playing sidekick, Herb, as Kiki and Herb. Their show "Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway" was nominated for a 2007 Tony for Special Theatrical Event. The show toured in Boston and San Francisco in 2007. - Rémi Lange
Rémi Lange is a film director. Lange has made various films, mostly released directly to video, except "Omelette" (1998) where he filmed his own coming out, and its sequel "Les Yeux brouillés" (2000), which both had general cinematic release in France. His films have been shown and won awards at film festivals around the world. Lange's films are not well known, but they do have a certain following. - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Toronto-based poet, writer, educator and social activist. Her writing has been published in the anthologies "Colonize This!", "Dangerous Families", "With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn", the Lambda Literary Award-nominated "Brazen Femme", "Without a Net", "Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws" and "A Girl’s Guide To Taking Over the World". - Lynn Breedlove
Lynn Breedlove (also known as Lynnee Breedlove) (born in Oakland, California) is an American musician, writer, and performer. Breedlove was a founding member and lead singer of the San Francisco queercore punk band Tribe 8. One of the band's first singles was released by the queercore record label Outpunk and later releases were on the independent record label Alternative Tentacles. - Terre Thaemlitz
Terre Thaemlitz is an award-winning multi-media producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label. His work critically combines themes of identity politics - including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race - with an ongoing critique of the socio-economics of commercial media production. This diversity of themes is matched by Thaemlitz' wide range of production styles, … - Hélène Cixous
Hélène Cixous, is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. Hélène Cixous was born in Oran, Algeria, to a German Ashkenazi mother and Algerian Sephardic father. She earned her agrégation in English in 1959 and her Docteur en lettres in 1968. Her main focus, at this time, was English literature, and the works of James Joyce. - Anthony Venn-Brown
Anthony Venn-Brown (born 13 March, 1951) is a former evangelist and minister in the Australian Assemblies of God and the Co-founder and Convenor of Freedom 2 B[e] which is a network for GLBTIQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer) people from Pentecostal and Charismatic backgrounds. - Ragan Fox
Ragan Cooper Fox (born May 9, 1976 in Houston, Texas) is a gay poet and performance artist who is an assistant professor of communication at California State University, Long Beach. He received a B.S. and an M.A. (2001) from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. (2006) from Arizona State University. He is the host of the podcast Fox and the City, which was heard weekly on Sirius Radio 103. Along with Fox and the City, he participated in Eat this Hot Show, … - Miss Shangay Lily
Miss Shangay Lily (born March 1, 1963) is best known for being one of Spain's most popular drag queens. He is also a writer, actor and director. - Daniel A. Helminiak
Daniel A. Helminiak is the author of "What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality". He holds a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston College and Andover Newton Theological School, and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from The University of Texas at Austin. He is also currently a professor at the University of West Georgia. For 28 years, he served as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. He is a member of Dignity/Atlanta, a subset of DignityUSA. - Cherríe Moraga
Cherríe L. Moraga is an Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright. Moraga was born in Whittier, California. She earned her Bachelor's degree from a college in Hollywood, California and her Master's from San Francisco State University in 1980. Of both Anglo and Mexican American heritage, her writing focuses on her experiences as a Chicana lesbian. Moraga has taught courses in dramatic arts and writing at various universities across the nation, … - Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum is an American poet and cultural critic. He received a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Currently, he lives in New York City, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Koestenbaum's work, both in poetry and nonfiction, has explored the social and mental life of American queer intellectuals. - Owen Pallett
Owen Pallett (born September 7, 1979) is a violinist and singer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and winner of the inaugural Polaris Music Prize. Pallett is the principal member of the band Final Fantasy, which is essentially a solo project, although Leon Taheny is also credited as drummer and engineer. The name "Final Fantasy" is a tribute to the well-known video game series, of which Pallett is a fan. Pallett has been noted for his live performances, … - Guy Hocquenghem
Guy Hocquenghem was born in the suburbs of Paris and was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. His participation in the May 1968 student rebellion in France formed his allegiance to the Communist Party, which later expelled him because of his homosexuality. He taught philosophy at the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis, Paris and was the author of numerous novels and works of theory. He was the staff writer for the French publication, "Libération". - Lisa B
Lisa B (Lisa Baird) is a political spoken word poet based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Since 2001, she has performed spoken-word poetry at shows around B.C. and in Oregon. She describes herself as a queer woman and an incest and violence survivor. - Don Kulick
Don Kulick is professor of Anthropology and director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. Kulick received his B.A. in Anthropology and Linguistics from Lund University in Sweden in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stockholm University in 1990. Previous academic positions include both Stockholm and Linköping Universities. He has been considered one of Sweden's foremost queer theorists and, together with Tiina Rosenberg, … - Tori Fixx
Tori Fixx is one of the first openly gay hip hop artists, and also produces music for other noted queer performers. He is based in Minneapolis. In the mid-90s, he DJed at parties for Prince at Paisley Park Studios in Minnesota. After moving to San Francisco circa 1997, he became a part of the hip hop group Rainbow Flava and appeared on their second CD, "Digital Dope". He released the first of six solo CDs to date in 1998. - Ruth Vanita
Ruth Vanita (1955-) is an Indian academic, activist and author who specializes in queer and gay studies. In 1978 in Delhi, Vanita was co-founder of "Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society", a pioneering journal that combined academic research and grassroots activism, and also co-editor from 1979 to 1990. - Richard Bluestein
Richard Bluestein (born March 30, 1967 in Evanston, Illinois) is a queer entertainer and underground Internet performance artist based in Chicago, Illinois. His most notorious persona is that of the "bloated, Jewish lesbian" Madge Weinstein of the groundbreaking indie podcast "Yeast Radio", which he writes and produces. - Mona West
Rev Dr Mona West (born 2 October 1955) is an American feminist theologian and pastor. She was ordained in the Southern Baptist Church in 1987 (a denomination that no longer ordains women) and transferred her credentials to the Metropolitan Community Church in 1992. - Chris Glaser
Chris Glaser graduated from Yale University with a M.Div. degree in 1977. - Troy D. Perry
Troy D. Perry (born July 27, 1940) founded the Metropolitan Community Church, a Christian denomination with a special affirming ministry with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities, in Los Angeles on October 6 1968. Troy had been involved in Christian ministry since he was 13. As a young man, he entered full-time ministry in a Pentecostal Church and married a pastor's daughter, with whom he had two sons. - Dodie Bellamy
Dodie Bellamy is a novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor, known for her non-traditional use of sexuality, politics, and narrative experimentation. Her work is frequently associated with that of Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, and Eileen Myles. A native of Hammond, Indiana and educated at Indiana University, Bellamy has taught creative writing at many educational institutions, including the San Francisco Art Institute, Mills College, UC Santa Cruz, … - Marcella Althaus-Reid
Marcella Althaus-Reid is newly appointed Professor of Contextual Theology at the University of Edinburgh, having been a reader in Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at New College, the Divinity School of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She is the only woman professor of theology at a Scottish University, and the first woman professor of theology at the University of Edinburgh in 160 years. Althaus-Reid ist member of the methodism church. - Jesse Liberty
Jesse Liberty (born July 10, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York), now living in Massachusetts. Liberty is a best-selling author on Microsoft .NET and has written over a dozen books on .NET, web development and object oriented programming. He has also written dozens of articles for both computer journals and newspapers on both technical and non-technical topics. Currently: Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation. Silverlight Development Team. - John J. McNeill
John J. McNeill was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1959 and now is a psychotherapist and an academic theologian, with a particular reputation within the field of Queer Theology. - Saleem Kidwai
Saleem Kidwai is an activist and scholar of queer and gay studies in India. He teaches history at the University of Delhi and was one of the first academics to speak publicly as a member of the LGBT community. His other academic areas of interest are Mughal politics and culture. With Ruth Vanita, he is co-editor of a major work exploring the indigenous roots of queerness in South Asia. - Mark Kenneth Woods
Mark Kenneth Woods is a Canadian writer, actor, producer and director. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Mark Kenneth Woods is a prolific media artist, writer and performer who works in film, video and television. Drawing from feminist, queer and post-colonial theory, his works in both TV and film often combine comedy and parody with ideas about gender, sexuality and race. He is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School, …
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