Palestinian LGBTQ people

Hanan Kattan (born 22 May 1962) is a Jordanian-born, British-based film producer of Palestinian origin. She is also co-owner of online marketing agency EBS Digital, multi-media entertainment company Enlightenment Productions and a Palestinian restaurant, Tabun Kitchen.

Talleen Abu Hanna (born 30 July 1994) is a Israeli-Arab beauty pageant winner, model, actress, and television personality. In 2016, she was crowned the first-ever Miss Trans Israel and placed first runner-up at Miss Star International. She was a contestant on the Israeli reality television series Big Brother and the reality series Goalstar. In 2018, she competed in Miss Israel.

Rauda Morcos is a Palestinian poet and LGBTIQ activist living in Haifa in Israel. In 2003, she was outed as a lesbian by a national newspaper, leading to dismissal from her job, physical assaults and attacks on her car. She then set up Aswat, the first Palestinian group dedicated to supporting lesbians.

Ghadir Shafie (also Ghadir Al Shafie, Arabic غدير الشافعي) is a Palestinian activist and feminist. She is the co-director of Aswat, an organization of queer Palestinian women, which she joined in 2008.

Khader Abu-Seif (Arabic: خضر أبو سيف‎; Hebrew: חאדר אבו־סייף‎; born c.) is a Palestinian copywriter known for his LGBT rights activism.

Bashar Murad (Arabic: بشار مراد; born February 7, 1993) is a Palestinian singer, songwriter, and social activist based in East Jerusalem. His music addresses societal norms, the Israeli Occupation, and LGBT+ rights in the Middle East. He is most commonly known for his collaboration with Icelandic Techno-Punk band Hatari on the song Klefi / Samed (صامد), which was shortly released after Hatari raised the Palestinian flag at the grand finale of Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (Arabic: أحمد شهاب الدين) (born September 16, 1984) is an American -Kuwaiti of Palestinian descent. He has become known for championing freedoms of Palestinians, as well as other marginalized groups who are demanding dignity and equality. He is also a journalist and columnist formerly at Huffington Post and VICE. He was a senior reporter for Al Jazeera Plus from 2017 through 2020. He produced an Emmy-nominated documentary. In 2020, he began moving towards other creative pursuits, creating a parody account on the short video platform TikTok and suggesting that he might begin podcasting.

Ayman Sikseck (or Ayman Siksik or Ayman Siksek, Arabic: أيمن سكسك‎, Hebrew: איימן סיכסק‎; born 1984, Jaffa) is an Israeli-Arab author, literary critic, Opinion journalist and news anchor. He writes mainly in Hebrew, and his debut novel To Jaffa was published in 2010. He writes for the Ha'aretz newspaper. Siksek won the National Library of Israel's 2013/2014 scholarship to encourage young Israeli writers.

Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh (1996/1997–2022) was a Palestinian man from Hebron whose murder, believed to be an anti-LGBT hate crime, drew international attention and condemnation.