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Cathy Debuono - An American actress and out and |
Chastity Bono - An American LGBT rights advocate, writer, actress and musician. Bono is the only child of American entertainers Sonny and Cher. She was outed by tabloid press in the early 1990s and publicly self-identified as lesbian in a 1995 cover interview in The Advocate. |
Clementine Ford - An American actress who is perhaps best known for her appearance as Molly Kroll on the fourth and fifth seasons of Showtime's "The L Word" She came out as gay in early 2009. That's what she said about that event in interview with Diva magazine: "I never want to put a label on myself - but knowing that not everyone comes from such a liberal place, when something like Prop 8 comes out, you realize it's important to stand up and be counted. A little gay kid in a small town is more important than whether I want a label" |
Cynthia Nixon - An American actress born in New York City best known from her role as Miranda in "Sex and the City" Nixon has two children, daughter Samantha and son Charles Ezekiel with Danny Mozes, an English professor, with whom she was in a relationship from 1988 to 2003. In January 2004 she started to date education activist Christine Marinoni. When asked in one of the interviews about their relationship Cynthia said "In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed... I'd been with men all my life and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman" |
Daniela Sea - An American actress grew up in Malibu, California, raised by her artist/surfer/hippie parents. When she was a child, her father came out as gay. She runaway from home when she was 16 and travel around the world for most of her teen years. After returning to USA she was offered to perform the role of Moira Sweeney, an androgynous computer technician who moves from the Midwest with Jenny (Mia Kirshner). Over the course of the season, Moira comes out as a transman, adopting the name "Max Sweeney” Daniela and Leisha Hailey were the only out lesbians in “The L Word“cast. |
Ellen DeGeneres - Is a twelve-time Emmy Award-winning American stand-up comedienne, television hostess and actress. She hosts the award winning syndicated talk show The" Ellen DeGeneres Show". |
Gia Carangi - Was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s.Carangi was considered by some to be the first supermodel. Soon after she moved to New York at the age of 17 she become favourite model for various fashion photographers. In October 1978, Carangi did her first major shoot with top fashion photographer Chris von Wangenheim. He had her pose nude behind a chain-link fence with makeup assistant Sandy Linter. Carangi immediately became infatuated with Linter and started to pursue her, though the relationship never became stable. Around the same time Gia began to develop a heroin addiction that lead to end of her career. She died of AIDS-related complications at age of 26. Since her death, she has been considered a lesbian supermodel and icon and is said to have epitomized "lesbian chic" more than a decade before the term was coined. |
Heather Matarazzo - An American actress best known from her roles in "Welcome to the Dollhouse", "The Princess Diaries" and "Exes and Ohs". She came out as a lesbian in 2004. In an interview with the New York Daily News she said, "I met the person I'm so madly crazy in love with. She's not famous yet. She will be. She wants to do musical theatre and stage, which is not as demoralizing as the movie business is." By casually mentioning her partner's gender, Matarazzo took a huge step and subtly announced to the world, "I am a lesbian." In April 2005, Heather was the keynote speaker at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network of Boston's annual conference where she described her struggle to accept her sexual orientation and coming out process. |
Jackie Warner - An American fitness trainer best known for her participation in Work Out a Bravo TV reality show owns Sky Sport and Spa. She moved to California at the age of 18 were she founded and co-owned a company in the cellular phone industry and by the time she was 22 it was the third top-grossing cellular phone company in Southern California. She has worked as a model, actor and a script coordinator for Warner Brothers, eventually writing and selling her own scripts. Currently she works as a personal trainer. Jackie is openly gay, and her show has chronicled her relationships with 4 different women. |
 Jenny Shimizu – A Japanese-American model and actress. She stared in such movies as “Itty Bitty Titty Committee” and”Firefox”. Jenny had on-off relationship with Angelina Jolie for nearly 10 years. |
 Jill Bennett - An American actress, vlogger, protester and activist, best know from the movie "In her
Line of Fire". She also stars in" 3 Way", a lesbian web series and is producing "The Violet
Underground" for SheWired.com. She’s out lesbian and is dating her "3Way" co-star Cathy Debuono. |
Jodie Foster - An America actress, director and producer began acting in commercials at 3 years old, and her first significant role came in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the teen prostitute, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award. Jodie won an Oscar in 1989 for playing a rape survivor in "The Accused" and in 1991 for her performance in "Silence of Lambs" Foster is intensely private about certain aspects of her personal life, notably her sexual orientation, which always has been the subject of speculation. She has two sons: Charles and Christopher but she never revealed the identity of their father. In December 2007 during award acceptance speech Jodie paid tribute to film producer Cydney Bernard referring to her as "my beautiful Cydney, who sticks with me through the rotten and the bliss." Some media interpreted this as her coming out. |
Kate Clinton - An American comedian working in industry for over 25 years, She’s specializing in political commentary from a gay/lesbian point of view. Kate grew up Catholic in New York State and taught high school English for eight years before becoming a comedian. She began her |
 K d Lang - A Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter, came out as a lesbian in a 1992. She has performed and supported many causes over the years, including HIV/AIDS care and research, "Meat Stinks" campaign and human rights issues campaigns |
 Leisha Hailey - an American girl, who had always wantedto be an actress, first came to the public's attention as a musician in the pop duo Murmurs and has continued a music career as part of the band Uh Huh Her; she is also credited as co-writer on Shakira's hit single, "Don't Bother". Hailey's first major role was in 1997's cult hit "All Over Me", and right around this time she played a struggling musician on an episode of "Boy Meets World". Since 2003 she has starred as Alice Pieszecki on "The L Word". Ironically while she was playing bisexual character, she was only out lesbian cast member at that time |
Martina Navratilova - Is a Czech-American tennis player. Probably the best female player of 20th Century if not of all the time. Originally from Czechoslovakia, she was stripped of her citizenship when, in 1975 at the age of 18, she asked the United States for political asylum and was granted temporary residency. At the time, Navratilova was being told by the Czechoslovakian Sports Federation that she was becoming too Americanized and that she should go back to school and make tennis secondary. She became a US citizen in 1981. Shortly after, Martina came out publicly about her sexual orientation. From 1984 to 1991 she had a long-term relationship with partner Judy Nelson with whom she split in 1991 in a much-publicized legal wrangle. When not playing tennis, Navratilova is involved with various charities that benefit animal rights, underprivileged children, and gay rights. |
Melissa Etheridge - An American rock singer-songwriter and musician. She is openly lesbian and is famous as a gay rights activist. Melissa is married to actress Tammy Lynn Michaels with whom she has two children. In October 2003 Etheridge was diagnosed with abreast cancer and underwent chemotherapy a lumpectomy and seems to be doing great now. Etheridge become a spokesperson for breast cancer and will always be remembered for her amazing bald-headed performance of Jam's Joplin's "Piece of My Heart" at the Grammy Awards. She remains one of the most visible lesbian role models. |
Michelle Bonilla - An Mexican out and proud lesbian actress best known for her roles as paramedic Harms on "ER" and Latina teacher Teresa Morales on "Dr. Quinn". Bonilla is the proud co-owner of Synergy Actors Studio, in North Hollywood, where she teaches an ongoing, On-camera Meisner technique, to actors seeking to strengthen the craft of acting. And, is a proud winner of The ALMA (American Latino Media Arts Award) Award, for her portrayal in PBS's, Award Winning Foto-Novelas Series "Seeing through Walls". |
Portia de Rossi - An Australian actress, best known |
Rosie O'Donnell - An American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, author and media personality. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer and collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company |
Sandra Bernhard - An American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. Since then she stared in over 50 movies and TV shows and recorded several music albums and has written 3 books. She's openly gay. |
Sara Gilbert - An American actress best known for her |
Sarah Waters - A British writer best known for her novels set in Victorian society, such as "Tipping the Velvet", "Affinity" and "Fingersmith". She's an out lesbian, currently living in London. |
Sophie B Hawkins - An American singer, songwriter, musician and painter. She's best known for such hit as "Damn I wish I was your Lover", "Right beside You" |
Tammy Lynn Michaels - An American actress best known from her role in television show "Popular". Michaels is openly gay and a well-known lesbian figure. In 2003 she married rock singer Melissa Etheridge. They have two children together. |
Tracy Chapman - An American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Cars", "Baby Can I Hold You Tonight", "Give Me One Reason", "The Promise" and "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award- winning artist. Tracy has never denied she is a lesbian, but hasn't exactly been open about her sexuality either. Even though it's well known that she and bisexual feminist writer Alice Walker were ones a lovers. |
Wanda Sykes An American writer, stand-up comedian and actress. She is known for her blunt comedic observations on current events, the differences between the sexes and races, and the human condition. She married her partner Alex in October 2008 and came out as lesbian in November. Her wife gave birth to twins Olivia Lou and Lucas Claude on |
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Alexandra Hedison - An American actress and photographer. She played role of Dylan on Showtime