Notable writers of LGBTQ+ literature

Volume 1. Edward Albee

Paula Gunn Allen

Paula Gunn Allen Publishes The Sacred Hoop 1986

Gloria E. Anzaldua

Anzaldua Publishes Borderlands/La Frontera 1987

Reinaldo Arenas

W. H. Auden

James Baldwin

Djuna Barnes

Men Playing Women during World War I Theatricals

Aphra Behn

Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop as a Lesbian Poet

Elizabeth Bowen

Rita Mae Brown

Lord Byron

Truman Capote

Truman Capote's "The Diamond Guitar"

Willa Cather

Constantine P. Cavafy

Postcolonialism in "New" Poems by Cavafy

Michelle Cliff

Hart Crane

Countee Cullen

Illustrations in Countee Cullen's Works

The Fugitive Erotic in the Poetry of Mae V. Cowdery

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson's "Homoerotic" Poetry

Katherine V. Forrest

E. M. Forster

Carpenter Publishes The Intermediate Sex 1908

E. M. Forster's Maurice: The First "Gay" Novel in English

Jean Genet

Stefan George

"Gay" Poems by Stefan George?

Andre Gide

Gide Publishes the Signed Edition of Corydon 1924

Andre Gide

Allen Ginsberg

Angelina Weld Grimke

Angelina Weld Grimke and the Birth Control Movement

Thom Gunn

The Homosocial, Homoerotic Poetry of Robert Francis

Thom Gunn's "Lament"

Don't Call Us Dead, by Danez Smith

Marilyn Hacker

A Stranger's Mirror

Radclyffe Hall

Hall Publishes The Well of Loneliness 1928

H.D

H.D.'s Bisexual and/or Lesbian Poems

Foster Publishes Sex Variant Women in Literature 1956

Lillian Hellman

Patricia Highsmith

Love and the Country in Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt

Rechy Publishes City of Night 1963

John Rechy

A. E. Housman

Male Love and Friendship in Poems by A. E. Housman

Langston Hughes. "Gay"(?) Writings by Langston Hughes

Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance

Richard Bruce Nugent

Christopher Isherwood

Isherwood Publishes Goodbye to Berlin 1939

Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man: A Sample Paragraph

Henry James

Larry Kramer

The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer

M. Butterfly Opens on Broadway 1988

Tony Kushner

Angels in America Officially Opens on November 8, 1992

The History Boys Officially Opens on May 18, 2004

Alan Bennett

D. H. Lawrence

David Leavitt

Matthew Gregory ("Monk") Lewis

"Which of the Closets?": The Deflected Gay Subtext of A Raisin in the Sun

Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde and Intersectionality: Examining Race, Sexuality,

Social Class, and Age

The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren Makes the New York Times

Bestseller List 1974

Amy Lowell

Critical Pluralism and Politics: Amy Lowell's "Orientation"

Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Christopher Marlowe

W. Somerset Maugham

Carson McCullers

Claude McKay

Herman Melville

Homoeroticism in the Novels of Herman Melville

Literary Criticism on Melville and Sexuality

Homoeroticism in Rockwell Kent's Illustrations of Melville's Moby-Dick

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay's Openly Sexual Poetry

Yukio Mishima.

Volume 2. Michael Nava

Frank O'Hara

Gay Poems by Rafael Campo

Joe Orton

Wilfred Owen

The Homoerotic Poetry of Wilfred Owen: Survey and Assessment

Katherine Philips

Katherine Philips's Love Poems for Other Women

Marcel Proust

Mary Renault

Barney Opens Her Paris Salon 1909

Natalie Clifford Barney

Adrienne Rich

Rich Publishes "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence"

1980

Vita Sackville-West

Sappho

May Sarton

The Poetry of May Sarton

Siegfried Sassoon.

Some Homoerotic War Poems by Sigfried Sassoon

Vikram Seth

The Stray Greatness of Vikram Seth: Sexuality and Form in

The Golden Gate and Beyond

William Shakespeare

Richard Barnfield's Homoerotic Poetry

Gertrude Stein

Stein Writes Q.E.D. 1903

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and World War I

May Swenson

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal's "The Zenner Trophy"

Alice Walker

Expressing Lesbian Desire Through the Epistolary Form in

The Color Purple

"This Is How It Happened"

John Cleland

Horace Walpole

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Edmund White

Edmund White's "Reprise"

Paul Monette Wins National Book Award for Becoming a Man 1993

Andrew Holleran's "Friends at Evening"

Patrick White

Walt Whitman

Whitman Publishes Leaves of Grass 1855

Walt Whitman and the "Homophile" Movement in the 1950s:

Evidence in the Archives of the "One Institute"

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Is Convicted of Gross Indecency 1895

Tennessee Williams

Angus Wilson

Virginia Woolf

Marguerite Yourcenar

Bibliography

Glossary of Literary Terms

LGBTQ Literature: 1890-1969

LGBTQ Literature: 1970 and Beyond

An Overview of Contemporary Guides to LGBTQ Literature

A Sheaf of Some Neglected Gay Poems

A Sheaf of Some Neglected Lesbian Poems

Author Awards

Author Birth and Death Information

Subject Index.