Famous lgbt writers
Visibility. It’s one of the most crucial needs of the queer community. To be understood, to be accepted, the LGBTQIA+ community needs first to be seen. This has meant that centuries of authors writing about the experiences, love, and pain of the queer community have been crucial in making progress towards a radical acceptance.
From the delicate art develop of the semi-autobiographical novel — a life story veiled behind fictional names and twists — to the roar of poetry to a deep dive into the history that has too often been erased and purged, queer literature has helped to challenge, travel, and shape generations of readers.
As a pansexual, demisexual cis woman on my way into another Pride Month, researching and crafting this list was a singular bliss. I have many books to insert on hold at my local library. Many stories to encounter. Many histories to educate myself on.
Because queer texts help to increase our visibility to the “outside” world, but they also increase internal visibility and acknowledgment. Today, transphobia is rampant among the queer community, and there are still
From Sappho to Stonewall, and beyond: how fiction tells LGBTQ+ history
Fiction tells us so much about the time we live in – and LGBTQ+ writers have been writing since the prior days of literature. Their stories hold often, but not always, been marginalised, but they own always said something about the era in which they were first told or published. Here, we take a look at the evolution of queer fiction across the ages – for brevity’s sake, focusing on the Western world – and what it reflects about that moment in history, from Sappho, to Stonewall, and beyond.
Queer stories in antiquity
Madeline Miller’s hit The Noun of Achillesis a moving queer retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of young prince Patroclus that simultaneously reflects pride in same-sex relationships (Achilles remains adamant throughout that he and Patroclus be seen together) and latest anxieties about sentimental relationships and masculinity – how men can be soft, how to supervise family expectations.
But being queer wasn’t always coded as different, and many myths don’t demand retel
20 Queer Authors from History Who You Need to Know
Given the scarcity of satisfactory LGBTQ representation, one might be inclined to reflect that LGBTQ people haven’t existed for the bulk of human history. Nothing could be further from the reality. Queer folks verb been around since the dawn of time, and we aren’t going anywhere. Discrimination, violence, and oppression have contributed to the erasure of queer individuals who have been blazing the trails since before your grandparents’ grandparents were born, and here is just a small drop in the ocean of queer writers throughout history.
1. Walt Whitman ()
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Walt Whitman was a American, poet, author, essayist, and journalist. His prolific career is perhaps adj remembered for his epic poems Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself. Biographers have continually debated Whitman’s sexual orientation; his poetry, particularly Leaves of Grass, which faced serious censorship after its publication, contains several homoerotic images, however others discuss that this was unintentional. Whitman himself was ca
LGBTQ Mystery and Horror Writers
There is a rich tradition of mystery and horror story writing by LGBTQ authors. Perhaps the best known of these authors is Clive Barker of Great Britain. Several of the writers have received the prestigious Lambda Literary Award for mystery writing.
Many of the books have been serialized into detective stories that are hugely popular around the world. Notable among these are the Donald Strachey series by U.S. writer Richard Lipez, which have been made into a well-liked television movie series starring gay actor Chad Allen. Similarly, Scotland's Val McDermid's series has been adapted for television under the specify 'Wire in the Blood'.
The first published mystery publication with a gay sleuth as the lead character is believed to be 'The Heart in Exile' () by Hungarian author Adam Martin de Hegedus, writing under the pen name Rodney Garland. The first American murder mystery novel is believed to be 'The Gay Detective' () by Lou Hogan (writing under the pen name Lou Rand).
Two transgender authors of notice in this genre ar