10 destacados miembros de la Comunidad Judía Gay

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10.


NAME: JOEL SIMKHAI

 

AGE: 37

OCCUPATION: INTERNET ENTREPRENEUR, CEO OF GRINDR

KNOWN FOR: GRINDR

Joel Simkhai is the founder & CEO of Grindr, currently the largest male homosexual location-based social network. Born in Tel Aviv, 1976, Simkhai, who’s openly gay, moved to New York with his family at the age of three, and began his own internet marketing firm in 2003. After moving to Los Angeles, he established Grindr, which would serve as the ultimate method of meeting new people in his community.

With Grindr, Joel combined GPS technology and application development to create the largest geosocial networking app for gay, bisexual and bi-curious men. Available on the Apple App Store and Google Play, Grindr is available via both free and paid subscriptions, with extra benefits of course.

It’s also interesting to note that Simkhai’s brother, Jonathan, was our Breakthrough Jew this week.

 

9.

NAME: NICK DENTON

AGE: 46

OCCUPATION: JOURNALIST, INTERNET ENTREPRENEUR, CEO OF GAWKER

KNOWN FOR: GAWKER

 

Nick Denton is a British journalist, entrepreneur, and founder of the illustrious blog, which many Canadians will know as the one that hoped to purchase a Rob Ford crack smoking video but ran into a ‘brick’ wall, Gawker. He’s also openly gay.

Before it became one of the leading sources for independent news online, Denton spent several years establishing the media group out of his studio apartment in SoHo.

Denton’s mother is a Hungarian Jew, while his father a distinguished economist. He attended Oxford University. Denton has been involved with internet media for close to twenty years, starting his career with the Financial Times of London, before founding two companies in the late nineties, both of which were very successful. Denton has been featured in the Sunday Times Rich List, and has a current estimated wealth of $290 million.

8.

 

NAME: STEVEN GREENBERG

AGE: 57

OCCUPATION: RABBI

KNOWN FOR: BEING FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI

 

Steven Greenberg received his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and his B.A. in philosophy from the Yeshiva University. As of 1999, after he revealed to a journalist for Israeli newspaper Maariv that he was interested in men, he became the first openly gay Orthodox Jewish rabbi in history.

As a rabbi, Greenberg has forever changed the way we look at the rules and traditions of the Jewish community, providing a blueprint for tolerance and understanding. Aside from recently tackling the subject, and his experiences, via a book entitled Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, Greenberg also teaches at the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. It is here that he presents Jews around the world with unique interpretations of the creation story, and of same-sex love in Talmudic prose and Jewish poetry.

Grenberg is the founder of Jerusalem’s LGBT community centre, Jerusalem open House, and has appeared in a documentary about gay and lesbian orthodox Jews: Trembling Before God. He has argued that Jewish historical record is more versatile than people give it credit for, and that we must all aspire to be moral, ethical, spiritual, and open about who you are.

7.

 

NAME: DANA INTERNATIONAL

AGE: 44

OCCUPATION: POP SINGER

KNOWN FOR: DIVA, CLINQUE MILLA, DING DONG

There isn’t a single Israeli who, if given the opportunity, wouldn’t sing along to songs by Dana International. Born male, Yaron Cohen (later Sharon Cohen) discovered he was transgender from an early age, and underwent sex reassignment before putting out her first album as Dana International in 1994. It wasn’t until 98, however, that she blew up internationally after winning the Eurovision Song Contest with her acclaimed pop smash ‘Diva’.

Dana is known as one of the most riveting Israeli songstresses of all time, voted by Ynet as 47th on their 200 Greatest Israelis List. She’s also known as the most famous Israeli transsexual.

6.

NAME: DAVID GEFFEN

AGE: 70

OCCUPATION: PRODUCER, BUSINESS TYCOON, PHILANTHROPIST

KNOWN FOR: ASYLUM RECORDS, GEFFEN RECORDS, DREAMWORKS

David Geffen is a self made man.

Growing up in Brooklyn, New York to Soviet Jews, Geffen grew up understanding the importance of hard work, learning the fundamentals of entrepreneurship by watching his mother operate her small undergarments retail shop.

He transformed himself into a millionaire by the ripe age of 25, and went on become one of the wealthiest men in the film industry. No easy task. Geffen, a record and film producer, established Dreamworks with with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, and also founded record companies including Geffen Records, Asylum Records and DGC.

Today, Geffen has an estimated wealth of $5.5 billion. He has built quite the reputation as an active philanthropist, donating in support of AIDS organizations, medical research, and arts and theatre, which he continues to have a strong relationship with. The openly gay tycoon was listed by Out Magazine as one of the “Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America” in 2007.

He has been the subject of several books including The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood (2001) by Tom King, The Rise and Rise of David Geffen (1997) by Stephen Singular, and is a featured character in Mailroom: Hollywood History From The Bottom Up by David Rensen, and several others.

In 2004, Forbes magazine revealed that any money Geffen would make from ‘now on’ he pledged to donate to charity, providing a $200 million unrestricted endowment fund for the School of Medicine at UCLA, which was later named the David Geffen School of Medicine in 2002, and another $100 million to the fund a decade later.

5.

NAME: SUSAN LYNN ‘SUZE’ ORMAN

AGE: 62

OCCUPATION: AUTHOR, FINANCIAL ADVISOR, TELEVISION HOST

KNOWN FOR: LARRY KING LIVE, THE COURAGE TO BE RICH, SUZE ORMAN’S 2009 ACTION PLAN

Suze Orman was born in 1951 and is best known for her personal finance show The Suze Orman Show on CNBC. Growing up in a Jewish family, her mother worked for a local rabbi, her Russian father in a chicken factory, Suze’s financial career did not start easy. While waitressing at Buttercup Bakery, she managed to raise $50,000 with the help of a long-time customer Fred Hasbrook, to open her own restaurant.

However, after signing up with a broker at Merrill Lynch, she ended up losing all her money due to risky investments made by the broker on behalf of her and her ignorance. Orman decided to learn everything she could about the finance world and ended up applying for a job at the same firm, eventually suing the broker and the company.

She left the company in 1983 and eventually opened her own firm in 1987. After appearing on a local radio show, Orman’s phone rang off the hook and she was introduced to the world of media. Today, Orman has written several best selling books on personal finance and has won a Gracie Award for Outstanding Program Host for her show on CNBC.

In 2007, Orman officially accepted her sexual orientation as lesbian and married her long time partner and manager Kathy “KT” Travis in South Africa in 2010. Her net worth as of 2013 is estimated at $35 million.

4.

NAME: NATHANIEL READ ‘NATE’ SILVER

AGE: 35

OCCUPATION: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, CORRESPONDANT, DEVELOPER, STATISTICIAN

KNOWN FOR: ESPN’S FIVETHIRTYEIGHT, ABC NEWS, PECOTA, BASEBALL PROSPECTUS, NEW YORK TIMES

Nathaniel Read “Nate” Silver is an American statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist, and writer. He is currently the editor-in-chief of ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight blog and a Special Correspondent for ABC News. He first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when he correctly predicted the results of the primaries and the presidential winner in 49 states and today, is considered one of the leading statistician through his innovative analyses of political polling.

Silver has described himself as “half-Jewish” (on his father’s side) and is openly gay.

“I’ve always felt like something of an outsider. I’ve always had friends, but I’ve always come from an outside point of view. I think that’s important. If you grow up gay, or in a household that’s agnostic, when most people are religious, then from the get-go, you are saying that there are things that the majority of society believes that I don’t believe,” he told an interviewer in 2012.

Silver has also been named one of The World’s 100 Most Influential People by Time (2009) and one of the Top 30 Most compelling LGBT People of 2012 by Huffington Post.

3.

NAME: TAMMY BALDWIN

AGE: 52

OCCUPATION: SENATOR

KNOWN FOR: FIRST OPENLY GAY SENATOR IN U.S. HISTORY

Tammy Baldwin was born in Wisconsin in 1962 and is Jewish on her her maternal grandfather’s side. Baldwin represented her state’s 78th District in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 to 1999. While serving in the House, Baldwin became known for focusing on energy issues and for supporting LGBT rights and universal health care. She went on to become Wisconsin’s first congresswoman in 1999 and over a decade later became the first openly gay politician elected to the U.S. Senate (2012).

Baldwin’s domestic partner was Lauren Azar for fifteen years and the couple registered as domestic partners in Wisconsin in 2009. However, they separated in 2010.

2.

 

NAME: ADAM LAMBERT

AGE: 31

OCCUPATION: SINGER, SONGWRITER

KNOWN FOR: AMERICAN IDOL, NEVER CLOSE OUR EYES, IF I HAD YOU, WHATAYA WANT FROM ME

Adam Lambert is the first openly gay pop artist to launch on a major label, after finding success on American Idol.

Adam moved to California at a young age, and was raised in his mother’s Jewish religion. He began playing music at the tender age of 9, performing in school plays and choirs. His passion for the stage encouraged him to move to L.A as opposed to attending college, where he soon landing roles in professional theatre productions including Hair, Brigadoon, and Wicked. He became an international success story with American Idol, brandishing him as one of the most influential and most talked about gay men in the entertainment industry. Even though he didn’t win, he went on to become one of the most successful contestants in the shows history. His most recent album, Trespassing, has been acclaimed across the globe. He will reportedly be joining the cast of Fox’s Glee next season.

1.

NAME: LOU REED

AGE: 71

OCCUPATION: MUSICIAN, SONGWRITER, PHOTOGRAPHER

KNOWN FOR: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Lewis Allan “Lou” Reed is an American rock musician/songwriter who rose to prominence with his 60s-era band The Velvet Underground. Though the group did not find mainstream success at the time, like many other unpopular bands of the time they would later develop an elaborate cult following, now known as one of the most influential rock n roll bands of the decade. Reed left the band to work on his solo career in 1971.

Reed was born at Beth El Hospital in Brooklyn. His father was an accountant, his family, Jewish. He learned to play guitar, reportedly, from listening to the radio, and began playing in bands during high school. In 1956, Reed underwent electroconvulsive therapy to ‘cure’ his bisexuality. He later said of the experience: “They put the thing down your throat so you don’t swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That’s what was recommended in Rockland County to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can’t read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.”

As the principal songwriter for Velvet Underground, and during his solo career, Reed wrote songs based on his own personal experiences, that were deep, poignant, and regarded delicate subject matter, prose rarely tackled in rock n roll. By doing so, Reed opened up the forum for emotionally charged straight, homosexual, bisexual, transgendered individuals around the world, being honest about his feelings, and his experiences as a bisexual man.

He married performance artist Laurie Anderson five years ago.

 

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HONORARY MENTIONS

NAME: CARRIE BROWNSTEIN

AGE: 38

OCCUPATION: ACTRESS, MUSICIAN

KNOWN FOR: PORTLANDIA, WILD FLAG

NAME: MICHAEL LUCAS

AGE: 41

OCCUPATION: DIRECTOR, GAY PORNSTAR

KNOWN FOR: UNDRESSING ISRAEL: GAY MEN IN THE PROMISED LAND, MEN OF ISRAEL

 

NAME: BRYAN SINGER

AGE: 47

OCCUPATION: DIRECTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER

KNOWN FOR: USUAL SUSPECTS, X-MEN, X2, SUPERMAN RETURNS, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

 

NAME: BARNEY FRANK

AGE: 73

OCCUPATION: FORMER MEMBER OF U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, POLITICIAN

KNOWN FOR: MOST PROMINENT GAY GAY POLITICIAN IN UNITED STATES

NAME: SANDRA BERNHARD

AGE: 58

OCCUPATION: ACTRESS, COMEDIAN, SINGER, AUTHOR

KNOWN FOR: DAVID LETTERMAN, ROSEANNE

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