Steven Goldstein (activist)

[3][5] Goldstein was CEO and chair of the group, New Jersey's statewide organization for LGBT equality, from 2004 until 2013, when he stepped down to take a post at Rutgers University–Newark.

He was played by Steve Carell in the 2015 movie Freeheld, based on the 2008 Academy Award-winning documentary of the same name, in which Goldstein himself appeared.

[9] Goldstein was executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect in 2016-2017, during which time the organization, according to Liel Leibovitz in The Tablet, "one of the loudest voices in the #resistance to Trump.

In 2023-2024 he was Education Director at Old York Road Temple-Beth Am in Philadephia,[15] where he studied for the year at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC).

[16] In 2019, Goldstein's book, The Turn-On: How the Powerful Make Us Like Them - from Washington to Wall Street to Hollywood was published by Harper Collins.