American LGBTQ screenwriters

American author (1924-1984)

American writer (1925–2012)

American actor (born 1973)

American film director, producer, photographer and musician (born 1952)

American director, screenwriter, and producer (1939–2020)

American film director, writer and producer

actor, singer, book author

American novelist (b. 1964)

RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and has received several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, a Tony Award, and a Guinness World Records title. He has been dubbed the "Queen of Drag" and is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States, with Fortune saying that he is "easily the world's mo

American fashion designer and filmmaker (born 1961)

American film director

American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer (born 1946)

Ryan Patrick Murphy is an American writer, director, and producer, working mainly in television. He has often been described as "the most powerful man" in modern television and signed the largest development deal in television history with Netflix. Murphy is noted for having created a shift in inclusive storytelling that "brought marginalised characters to the masses." His accolades include six Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, a Tony Award, four Producers Guild of America Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, including the honorary Carol Burnett Award.

American film director and screenwriter (born 1961)

American comedian, writer, actress and voice artist

American actor and playwright

novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist (born 1944)

Russian-American actress, screenwriter and producer (1879–1945)

American screenwriter

American screenwriter, director, and producer (born 1965)

American animator and screenwriter

American filmmaker (1927–2023)

American film director and film editor (1897–1979)

American television producer, writer

American film director and animator

American screenwriter, director and producer

American writer, actor and director

American screenwriter, novelist, essayist, playwright, LGBT-rights and AIDS activist (1935–2020)

American television writer and producer

American comedian and actor

American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director

American actor, screenwriter, film producer and director

Bowen Yang is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, and writer. Yang was a staff writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 2018, and a cast member for seven seasons from 2019 until his departure in 2025. He became the first SNL featured player to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2021, the same year he was promoted to repertory status.

American film director and screenwriter, born in New Caledonia

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1961)

American playwright (1938–2020)

American screenwriter and director (born 1964)

American comedian and actress

American actor, comedian, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter

American film director

Film director, screenwriter

American writer, director, producer, TV host and transgender rights activist

American film director and screenwriter

American filmmaker (1965–2020)

American actress and writer

Playwright, poet, author (1886–1958)

American filmmaker (born 1965)

American playwright, theatre director and screenwriter (1917–2011)

American director, producer, and screenwriter

American animator

American comedian

American actor

American film director and screenwriter

American actor, filmmaker and singer

American film director

Nicaraguan-American playwright, screenwriter, comic book writer and showrunner

American television director, producer and writer (born 1957)

American film director

American screenwriter and film and television director

American actor