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New York City has one of the largest LGBTQ populations in the world and the most prominent. Brian Silverman, the author of Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day, wrote the city has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most powerful LGBT communities", and "Gay and lesbian culture is as much a part of New York's basic identity as yellow cabs, high-rises, and Broadway theater". LGBT Americans in New York City constitute by significant margins the largest self-identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities in the United States, and the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village are widely considered to be the genesis of the modern gay rights movement. As of 2005, New York City was home to an estimated 272,493 self-identifying gay and bisexual individuals. The New York City metropolitan area had an estimated 568,903 self-identifying GLB residents. Meanwhile, New York City is also home to the largest transgender population in the United States, estimated at 50,000 in 2018, concentrated in Manhattan and Queens. The following represents a list of notable self-identified LGBTQ New Yorkers.

Academia and research

 * Andrew Dolkart – co-founder, NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project; professor, historic preservation, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)
 * Kevin Nadal – professor of psychology and researcher at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Broadway and stage

 * Michael Arden – director, actor, and singer
 * Jon Robin Baitz – playwright, screenwriter, and producer
 * Anne Bogart – director
 * David Burtka – Broadway and television actor, chef
 * Jenn Colella – actress
 * Roberta Colindrez – actress and writer
 * Quentin Crisp – late stage actor, raconteur, and writer
 * Robin de Jesús – actor
 * Richard Greenberg – playwright and screenwriter
 * Jonathan Groff – Broadway and television actor, co-star, "Glee"
 * Neil Patrick Harris – Broadway and television actor, producer, singer, comedian, magician, and television host
 * Brian Hutchison – actor
 * Cheyenne Jackson – actor and singer
 * Larry Kramer – playwright, author, producer, and LGBT rights advocate
 * Tony Kushner – playwright and screenwriter
 * Matteo Lane – comedian
 * Nathan Lane – actor and comedian
 * Joe Mantello – director and actor
 * Keith McDermott – actor, director and memoirist
 * Danny McWilliams – actor and comedian
 * Andy Mientus – actor, Broadway musicals
 * Javier Muñoz – actor, singer, and HIV/AIDS activist
 * Rory O'Malley – actor and singer
 * Lee Pace – actor
 * Jim Parsons – Broadway and television actor, co-star, The Big Bang Theory
 * Billy Porter – actor and singer
 * Andrew Rannells – actor and singer
 * Jordan Roth – majority owner, Jujamcyn Theaters on Broadway
 * Wesley Taylor – actor and writer
 * Taylor Trensch – actor
 * Jeff Whitty – playwright and actor

Drag performance

 * Aja – drag queen and rapper
 * Aquaria – drag queen and performance artist (winner of the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race)
 * Joey Arias – drag queen and performance artist
 * Kevin Aviance – drag queen and performance artist
 * Bob the Drag Queen – drag queen and performance artist (winner of the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race)
 * Lady Bunny – drag queen and founder Wigstock event
 * Honey Davenport – activist, singer, and drag queen (contestant on the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race)
 * Bianca Del Rio – drag queen
 * Dallas DuBois (Daniel Logan) – former drag queen
 * John Epperson – drag queen, writer, musician, and performance artist known as Lypsinka
 * Brita Filter – drag queen, actor, star of Shade: Queens of NYC
 * Murray Hill – drag king and performance artist
 * Hedda Lettuce – drag queen and singer
 * Milk – drag performer and fashion model
 * Peppermint – drag queen and star of Head Over Heels
 * Shequida – drag artist, writer, and opera singer
 * Paige Turner – drag performer
 * Sasha Velour – drag performer (winner of the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race)
 * Sherry Vine – drag queen and musician
 * Monét X Change – drag queen (winner of the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars)

Entrepreneurship and technology

 * Bradford Shellhammer – entrepreneur and designer, founding editor of Queerty
 * Joel Spolsky – software engineer

Design

 * Thom Browne – fashion designer
 * Drew Elliott – creative director and consultant
 * Prabal Gurung – fashion designer
 * Marc Jacobs – fashion designer
 * Calvin Klein – fashion designer
 * Michael Kors – fashion designer
 * Derek Lam – fashion designer
 * Humberto Leon – fashion designer
 * Phillip Lim – fashion designer
 * Isaac Mizrahi – fashion designer
 * Zac Posen – fashion designer
 * Christian Siriano – fashion designer
 * Alexander Wang – fashion designer
 * Jason Wu – fashion designer

Modeling

 * J. Alexander – model and fashion designer
 * Leyna Bloom – fashion model and transgender activist
 * Peche Di – transgender model, who started the first transgender modeling agency in the U.S., in New York City
 * Dilone – model
 * Rain Dove – model and activist
 * Shay Neary – transgender model, the first transgender plus-size model featured in a major fashion campaign
 * Yasmine Petty – transgender model
 * Aaron Philip – transgender model
 * Teddy Quinlivan – transgender model
 * Miriam Rivera – late transgender model and the first openly trans reality television star
 * Geena Rocero – supermodel and transgender activist

Film and television

 * Desiree Akhavan – film director, producer, and screenwriter
 * Casper Andreas – director, writer, and actor
 * Brian Balthazar – co-executive producer, The View
 * Sandra Bernhard – actress, singer, and author
 * Matt Bomer – actor and director
 * Bill Condon – director, screenwriter, and producer
 * Laverne Cox – transgender actress
 * Lee Daniels – director, screenwriter, and producer
 * Billy Eichner – actor, comedian, and writer
 * Rodney Evans – director and screenwriter
 * Frankie Grande – television personality, co-host of Style Code Live
 * Tim Gunn - fashion consultant, television personality and actor
 * Dominique Jackson – transgender actress and model
 * Michael Patrick King – director, writer, and producer
 * Carson Kressley – television personality, former host of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
 * John Krokidas – director, writer, and producer
 * Jennie Livingston – documentary filmmaker
 * Michael Lucas – director, columnist, and activist
 * Rob Marshall – director, choreographer and producer
 * Kate McKinnon – comedian, Saturday Night Live
 * John Cameron Mitchell – director, writer, and actor
 * Janet Mock – TV host, writer, and transgender rights activist
 * Indya Moore – transgender actress and model
 * Lauren Morelli – screenwriter
 * Cynthia Nixon – actress
 * Stacie Passon – director, screenwriter, and producer
 * Patrik-Ian Polk – director, screenwriter, and producer
 * Zachary Quinto – actor and producer
 * Dee Rees – director, screenwriter, and producer
 * Yoruba Richen – documentary filmmaker
 * Mj Rodriguez – transgender actress
 * Harmony Santana – transgender actress
 * Greta Schiller – documentary filmmaker
 * Rutina Wesley – actress
 * Samira Wiley – actress and model
 * Bowen Yang – writer and actor, Saturday Night Live

Law

 * Paul Feinman – the first openly gay judge confirmed to the New York State Court of Appeals, in June 2017

Literature and photography

 * Ellis Avery – author
 * Bruce Benderson – author
 * Cass Bird – photographer and artist
 * Jennifer Finney Boylan – trans woman author and journalist
 * Augusten Burroughs – author, memoirist
 * Regie Cabico – poet and spoken-word artist
 * Michael Cunningham – author
 * Nicole Dennis-Benn – author
 * Mark Doty – poet and memoirist
 * Martin Duberman – biographer and historian
 * Grace Dunham – author
 * David Ebershoff – author and editor
 * Allen Ginsberg – late poet, philosopher, and writer
 * Annie Leibovitz – photographer
 * Paul Lisicky – author and memoirist
 * Jaime Manrique – poet, essayist, and translator
 * Robert Mapplethorpe – late photographer
 * Eric Marcus – author
 * Darnell L. Moore - author
 * Lesléa Newman – author and editor
 * Rakesh Satyal – author
 * Ariel Schrag – cartoonist and television writer
 * Sarah Schulman - author
 * Charles Silverstein – author, therapist, and gay activist
 * Carter Smith – fashion photographer
 * Colm Tóibín – author, playwright essayist, and critic
 * Ocean Vuong – poet, essayist
 * Edmund White – author, critic, and memoirist

Media

 * Yashar Ali – journalist, New York magazine
 * Jack Anderson – dance critic and author
 * Rose Arce – journalist and producer
 * Josh Barro – journalist and senior editor, Business Insider
 * Charles Blow – visual op-ed columnist, The New York Times
 * Keith Boykin - author, commentator
 * Ben Brantley – journalist and chief theater critic,The New York Times
 * Frank Bruni – journalist and op-ed columnist, The New York Times
 * Sam Champion – meteorologist and television weather anchor
 * Andy Cohen – television personality
 * Anderson Cooper – journalist and television anchor, CNN
 * Angela Dimayuga – food critic for The New York Times, chef
 * George Dorris – editor and writer
 * David W. Dunlap – journalist, The New York Times
 * Ronan Farrow – journalist and lawyer
 * Stephanie Gosk – journalist, NBC News
 * Perez Hilton – blogger
 * Sally Kohn – journalist, political commentator
 * Steve Kornacki – writer and political correspondent with NBC News
 * Don Lemon – journalist and television anchor, CNN
 * Rachel Maddow – journalist and television anchor, MSNBC
 * Adam Moss – writer and editor, New York magazine
 * Michael Musto – journalist
 * Jim Nelson – editor, GQ magazine
 * Rosie O'Donnell – television personality
 * Suze Orman – author, financial advisor, and television host
 * Robin Roberts – journalist and television anchor, Good Morning America
 * Thomas Roberts – TV journalist and news anchor
 * Nate Silver – writer, statistician, and founder/editor of FiveThirtyEight
 * Shepard Smith – journalist and television anchor, Fox News
 * Andy Towle – blogger, political commentator, and founder of Towleroad
 * Jann Wenner – co-founder and publisher, Rolling Stone
 * Jenna Wolfe – journalist and TV news host

Music

 * Michael Alig – musician, club promoter
 * Mykki Blanco – transgender rapper, performance artist, poet, and activist
 * Mal Blum – singer and songwriter
 * Dai Burger – rapper
 * Cazwell – rapper
 * Lady Gaga – singer and songwriter
 * Halsey – singer
 * Angel Haze – rapper and songwriter
 * DJ Keoki – electronic musician
 * Cakes da Killa – rapper
 * House of Ladosha – rap duo (Antonio Blair and Adam Radakovich) and artistic collective
 * Le1f – rapper and producer
 * Jonte' Moaning – singer, songwriter, dancer, and choreographer
 * Adult Mom – singer and songwriter
 * Princess Nokia – rapper and musician
 * Jake Shears – singer and songwriter
 * Will Sheridan – singer and musician
 * St. Vincent – singer-songwriter, musician
 * Brad Walsh – singer and music producer

Performance arts

 * Juliana Huxtable – transgender performer, artist and writer
 * Bill T. Jones – dancer and choreographer
 * Amanda Lepore – transgender performance artist
 * Klaus Nomi – late countertenor and nightlife performance artist
 * Shen Wei – choreographer, artist, and director
 * Hector Xtravaganza – late dancer, choreographer, voguer
 * Venus Xtravaganza – late transgender performer and voguer

Politics

 * Jimmy Van Bramer – Majority Leader of the New York City Council
 * Thomas Duane – the first openly gay member of the New York State Senate, in which he served from 1999 to 2012
 * Daniel Dromm – member of the New York City Council
 * Deborah J. Glick – member of the New York State Assembly, the 66th Assembly District in Manhattan
 * Brad Hoylman – Democratic Senator for the New York State Senate in Manhattan's 27th district
 * Corey Johnson – member of the New York City Council
 * Carlos Menchaca – member of the New York City Council
 * Rosie Mendez – former member of the New York City Council
 * Daniel J. O'Donnell – member of the New York State Assembly, the 69th district in Manhattan
 * Christine Quinn – former Speaker of the New York City Council
 * Matthew Titone – member of the New York State Assembly from the 61st District, on Staten Island
 * Ritchie Torres – member of the New York City Council
 * James Vacca – member of the New York City Council
 * Randi Weingarten – president, American Federation of Teachers

Social activism

 * Brian Ellner – LGBT rights activist and executive vice president for public affairs at Edelman

Sports

 * Brian Anderson – skateboarder

Visual arts

 * Andrew Bolton – head curator, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute
 * Anthony Goicolea – artist chosen in June 2017 to design the official New York State LGBT monument
 * Keith Haring – late artist
 * Todd Oldham – designer
 * Andy Warhol – late artist