# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jewelle-gomez
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:29:22.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jewelle-gomez"
name: "Jewelle Gomez"
slug: "jewelle-gomez"
description: "Jewelle Lydia Gomez is an American author, poet, critic and playwright. She lived in New York City for 22 years, working in public television, theater, as well as philanthropy, before relocating to the West Coast. Her writing—fiction, poetry, essays and cultural criticism—has appeared in a wide variety of outlets, both feminist and mainstream. Her work centers on women's experiences, particularly those of LGBTQ women of color. She has been interviewed for several documentaries focused on LGBT rights and culture."
tagline: "American writer (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kim_shuck_jewell_gomez_l_frank_reid_gomez.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.06
  momentum:             1.237244449651456
  historical:           7.697590666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327027/"
    handle:    "nm0327027"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jewellegomez.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jewelle_Gomez"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "چيويل جوميز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewelle_Gomez"
    title: "Jewelle Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewelle_Gomez"
    title: "Jewelle Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewelle_Gomez"
    title: "Jewelle Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewelle_Gomez"
    title: "Jewelle Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewelle_Gomez"
    title: "Jewelle Gomez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%87_%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "జువెల్లే గోమెజ్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1688613"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2074606"
    title: "Jewelle Gomez"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump