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.
Contents
Late 19th Century
- Aestheticism
- Charles Baudelaire
- Emily Dickinson
- Théophile Gautier
- Henry James
- Walter Pater
- Marcel Proust
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Algernon Swinburne
- Walt Whitman
- Oscar Wilde
Twentieth century
Pre-Stonewall
- E.M. Forster
- Jean Cocteau
- 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
- Radcliffe 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
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
- Timothy Findley
- Gregory Maguire
- Keith Ridgway
See also
External links
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