LGBT literature
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LGBT or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Literature is an all encompassing term for literature produced by people who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender or involving characters, plot lines or themes concerning this community.
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[edit] Late 19th Century
- Aestheticism
- Charles Baudelaire
- Emily Dickinson
- Théophile Gautier
- Henry James
- Walter Pater
- Marcel Proust
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Algernon Swinburne
- Walt Whitman
- Oscar Wilde
[edit] Twentieth century
[edit] Pre-Stonewall
- E.M. Forster
- Jean Cocteau
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- D.H. Lawrence
- Djuna Barnes
- William Carlos Williams
- Christopher Isherwood
- W.H. Auden
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Jean Genet
- Frank O'Hara
- Joe Orton
- William S. Burroughs
- Allen Ginsberg
- James Baldwin
- Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness
- Noel Coward
- Avery Hopwood - American playwright.
- Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
- Mae West
- Colette
- Tennessee Williams
- Evelyn Waugh
- Magnus Hirschfeld
- Langston Hughes
- J.R. Ackerley
- Reinaldo Arenas
- Virginia Woolf
- Truman Capote
- Constantine P. Cavafy
[edit] Post-Stonewall
- Andrew Tobias and The Best Little Boy in the World.
- Rita Mae Brown and Rubyfruit Jungle.
- Edward Albee
- Gore Vidal
- Terrence McNally
- Tony Kushner
- Armistead Maupin
- Paula Vogel
- Christopher Rice
- Edmund White
- Randy Shilts
- Larry Kramer
- Alice Walker
- Colm Toibin
- Shyam Selvadurai
- Gudmund Vindland
- Timothy Findley
- Gregory Maguire
- Keith Ridgway
- Pål Johan Karlsen
- Douglas Coupland
- Henry Alley
- James Robert Baker
- Michel Tremblay
- Roland Michel Tremblay
- Bruce Benderson
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture on Gay Literature
- Lodestar Quarterly — an Online Journal of the Finest Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Literature
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