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Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Oscar Wilde
- Such authors as Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Oscar Wilde became prominent in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century as artists who utilized metaphors and allegories to explore issues of gender identification and sexual identity.
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- Michael Dillon (1915 – 1962) For the first entry on this list, it is fitting to start with a first of another kind. Laurence Michael Dillon’s life story and wide-spanning history of deeds is worthy of a book itself, with an autobiographical account available in his final and until recently unpublished work ‘Out of the Ordinary – A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions’.
- Becky Albertalli (1982 – ) Now to add a little touch of modern talent to this list. Becky is one of today’s most known writers of LGBT fiction – both directly and indirectly through the fame of her works – and her notoriety seems to be steadily growing every year.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930) This might be somewhat of a surprising entry, but one can be sure that Lawrence’s inclusion here is not without reason.
- Kate Bornstein (1948 – ) Performance artist, actor, and author Kate Bornstein is one of the most important, progressive gender theorists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
- Oscar Wilde
- James Baldwin
- Tennessee Williams
- Gore Vidal
- Edmund White
- Christopher Isherwood
- Armistead Maupin
- David Sedaris
- Jeanette Winterson
- Alan Hollinghurst
The Irish poet cum playwright was born on 16 October 1854. His famous works are The Happy Prince and Other Tales published in 1888 and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Also, A House of Pomegranates (1891) and The Importance of Being Earnestin 1895. He died aged 46 years on 30 November 1900.
This novelist is remembered for the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) which was his first book. Giovanni’s Room followed in 1956 and The Fire Next Timein 1963. Furthermore, his works served as a social critic of complex social and psychological pressures in society with themes like masculinity, sexuality, race, and class. Baldwin’s narratives...
The playwright is one of the 20th-century greats in his genre. The play The Glass Menagerie published in 1944 was his rise to fame. He also had the following successes A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). As well as Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana(1961). Moreover, Williams was part of a gay soci...
The American novelist, essayist cum political commentator is renowned for novels like Myra Breckinridge in 1968, Burr in 1973, and Lincolnin 1984. To add on, Vidal was bisexual. Through his novels and essays, he interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. His popularity led him to seek political office b...
White was born in Ohio on 13 January 1940. The author is applauded for A Boy’s Own Story (1982), Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), and The Farewell Symphony (1997). On top of that, he wrote The Joy of Gay Sex, written with Charles Silverstein in 1977. He has many writings themed on same-sex love.
This British-American author Isherwood was born on 26 August 1904 in England. His Notable works include The Berlin Stories in 1945, Mr. Norris Changes Trains in 1935, and Goodbye to Berlin(1939). Additionally, the novel A Single Man 1964, and Christopher and His Kind(2011) form part of his masterpieces. He died on 4 January 1986 aged 81 in Californ...
The novelist who doubles as a screenwriter is acknowledged for works like the Tales of the Citybook series. The nine novels of this series were written between 1978 to 2014. He was born on May 13, 1944, in Washington, D.C. He married writer Christopher Turner in 2007.
Sedaris was born on December 26, 1956, in New York. He is an author, comedian, and radio contributor. His essay Santaland Diariespublished in 1999 is one of his most praised works. Over and above that, Barrel Fever (1994) and Naked (1997) are both collections of short stories and essays inclusive of David’s famous works. Me Talk Pretty One Dayessay...
She was born on 27 August 1959 in England. The writer works as a journalist and professor. She is into science fiction. Her headline novels are Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), and Written on the Body(1992). Moreover, she has won awards such as the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, BAFTA Award, and a Whitbread Prize. She was honored with the Officer...
He was born on 26 May 1954 in England. He is a writer and translator by profession. He majors in novels, poems, and short stories. His noteworthy novels include The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), The Folding Star in 1994, and The Spell(1998). Additionally, The Line of Beauty published in 2004 won the Man Booker Prize the same year. Hollinghurst’s ot...
This list of LGBTQ writers includes writers who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer or otherwise non-heterosexual, non-heteroromantic or non-cisgender who have written about LGBTQ themes, elements or about LGBTQ issues (such as Jonny Frank).
- Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin. Author Chavisa Woods is far from alone when calling Giovanni's Room "masterfully written, heartbreaking." It's a book that has resonated with so many queer people since first being published in 1956, speaking to issues of identity even now.
- The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. A revelation when it was published in 1982, Alice Walker's novel delves into the intersections of race, gender, family, and sexuality in Georgia circa 1930.
- The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith. On the heels of her successful debut novel Strangers on a Train (with its own intimations of queerness), an encounter Patricia Highsmith had with a New Jersey socialite while working at a shopgirl at a department store became the seed for 1952's The Price of Salt.
- Orlando, by Virginia Woolf. Orlando, which Virginia Woolf wrote in tribute to friend and lover Vita Sackbville-West, is a study in gender fluidity across time and space.
Shrewd observers and lavish prose stylists, the writers on this list deserve your readership. Their variously humane and hilarious portraits of queerness and same-sex love and lust—and the everyday lives of those who experience them—are illuminating, whether you’re gay, straight, or somewhere in between.
Jun 6, 2022 · In 2007, Moroccan and Muslim author Abdellah Taïa came out as gay in French-Arab journal Tel Quel. His family was furious, and he was widely condemned and threatened throughout the country of Morocco, where homosexuality is illegal.
Jun 10, 2024 · Celebrate the many contributions to literature that LGBTQ+ authors have made with these great reads by Danez Smith, Dorothy Allison, Alexander Chee, Alice Walker, and more.
