As this list includes writers from antiquity until the present, it is clearly understood that the term "LGBTQ" may not ideally describe the identity of all authors, particularly for those who wrote before the nineteenth century. In some cases, it is more useful to consider such authors as persons who expressed attractions for persons of the same sex (for example, Sappho or Plato), and avoid the anachronistic use of contemporary labels. Inclusion in this list follows general scholarly and academic norms, specified in references, that attempt to establish a genealogy or history of LGBTQ literature written by LGBTQ people. There are many additional non-LGBTQ authors who have written works on LGBTQ topics. All new additions to this list should include a reference.
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| 1948–1996 | Brazilian | short stories, plays | Morangos Mofados, dragões não conhecem o paraíso | |
| b. 1952 | Canadian | scholar | The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement, The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics | [1] |
| b. 1966 | Canadian | playwright | Dreams of Sheep, Snapshots, Dirty Dog River and Janice's Christmas | [2] |
| b. ? | Canadian | horror | Wrist, Ghost Lake | [3] |
| 1925–2021 | Lebanese-American | poet | Sea and Fog | [4] |
| b. ? | American-Canadian | novelist, film critic | Terre Haute, Realia | |
| b. 1945 | Cuban American | poetry | Electra y Clitemnestra. Poema | [5] |
| 1954–2016 | Chicano | poetry | From the Belly Button of the Moon: And Other Summer Poems, Poems to Dream Together = Poemas para soñar juntos | [6] |
| 1928–2016 | American | playwright | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | [7] |
| 1982 | American | writer of fiction | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, What If It's Us | |
| b. 1967 | American | creative nonfiction | Dear Queer Self | |
| b. 1985 | Canadian | memoirist | Angry Queer Somali Boy | [8] |
| b. 1973 | Canadian | poetry, fiction | The Mathematics of Love | [9] |
| b. 1982 | American | playwright, performer, gay activist | Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon Be Happy Be Mormon | [10] |
| 1939–2008 | Native American | poet, literary critic | As Long as the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native Americans | |
| b. 1949 | American | novelist | Bastard Out of Carolina | |
| b. 1989 | American | poet | Who Am I? | |
| 1951–2005 | Canadian | poetry, fiction, drama | Bleus de mine | [11] |
| b. 1944 | American | novelist | Stormy Weather & Other Stories; Blood Feud: The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance; Washed in the Blood; Kinflicks: A Novel | |
| b. 1950 | American | professor of Jewish American religious history | Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation | [12] |
| b. 1960 | American | writer, theatre critic | White Girls | [13] |
| b. 1968 | Filipino-American | playwright, novelist | Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing, Letters to Montgomery Clift | [14] |
| 1805–1875 | Danish | fantasy, novelist, poet, playwright | The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen | [15] |
| 1958–1991 | Canadian | novelist | The Toronto You Are Leaving | [16] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist, playwright | Code White | [17] |
| 1915–1979 | English/Canadian | poet | Return to Canada | |
| b. 1939 | Colombian | folksinger and novelist | Girasoles en Invierno | |
| b. ? | Nigerian-Canadian | novelist, short stories | Whirlwind of Metamorphosis, Perfect Little Angels | [18] |
| b. 1973 | Spanish | novelist | Lowering Clouds | [19] |
| b. 1983 | Canadian | playwright | Da Kink in My Hair | [20] |
| b. 1976 | Canadian | playwright | In Gabriel's Kitchen | [21] |
| 1942–2004 | Chicana | scholar of Chicana cultural theory | | [22] |
| b. 1968 | Canadian | journalist, critic | The End of Gay (and the death of heterosexuality) | [23] |
| 1943–1990 | Cuban | poet, novelist and playwright | Before Night Falls | |
| 1884–1975 | Guatemalan | novelist, short-story writer, poet | Las rosas de Engaddi | |
| b. 1974 | Canadian | playwright | The Lavender Railroad, Galatea | [24] |
| 1954–2010 | Puerto Rican | poetry | Pale Ramón | [25] |
| b. 1970 | Puerto Rican | novel, short story, essay | TRANScaribeñx, Las Negras | [26] |
| 1927–2017 | American | poetry | Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror | |
| 1948-2017 | Australian | sports | | [27] |
| b. 1975 | Canadian | playwright | Real Live Girl, Lucy, The Gay Heritage Project | [28] |
| 1907–1973 | English | poetry | "Funeral Blues" (poem) | |
| 1972–2019 | American | novelist | The Teahouse Fire, The Last Nude | [29] |
| b. ? | Lebanese/Canadian | playwright | Harun, The Green Line, The Hooves Belonged to the Deer | [30] |
| 1880–1940 | Spanish | intellectual and politician | La velada en Benicarló | | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| 1972–2011 | American | poet, autobiographer | My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B | [31] |
| b. ? | Canadian | author, teacher, screenwriter, and director | Off the Highway | [32] |
| 1561–1626 | English | essayist, novelist | The Advancement and Proficience of Learning Divine and Human (1605) | |
| b. 1987 | American | poet, writer | Advantages of Being Evergreen | https://www.buzzfeed.com/oliverbendorf/after-i-came-out-as-a-transgender-man-a-teacher-asked-if-it |
| b. ? | Canadian | scientist | Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity | [33] |
| b. 1995 | Canadian | playwright, actor | Acha Bacha | [34] |
| 1946–1997 | American | novelist | Boy Wonder, Tim and Pete | [35] |
| b. 1944 | English | poet, playwright, novelist | Crying Celibate Tears | [36] [37] |
| 1924–1987 | American | poet, playwright, novelist | Giovanni's Room | |
| 1799–1850 | French | novelist | La Comédie humaine | |
| 1937–2019 | American | novelist | The Man from C.A.M.P. | [38] |
| b. ? | American | novelist, short stories | The Life I Lead, Next to Nothing | [39] |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | A New Remembrance: Poems | [40] |
| b. 1932 | American | novelist | Beebo Brinker | |
| 1883–1942 | Columbian | poet | "Canción de la vida profunda" (poem) | |
| 1892–1982 | American | novelist | Ladies Almanack, Nightwood | |
| 1955–1991 | American | short story writer | The Body and Its Dangers | [41] |
| 1876–1972 | American | poet, memoirist | Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes | |
| 1574–1627 | English | poet | The Passionate Pilgrim | |
| b. 1976 | British | writer, columnist, playwright | Maggie & Me | [42] |
| | Canadian | poet | Ritual Lights | [43] |
| 1915–1980 | French | semiotician | What Is Literature? | |
| b. 1957 | Canadian | poet | West of Darkness: Emily Carr, self-portrait (2nd ed.) | [44] |
| 1932–1992 | Canadian | novelist, essayist | La Jument des mongols, Le Grand Khan, Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk | [45] |
| b. 1965 | Peruvian | journalist, novelist | No se lo Digas a Nadie | [46] |
| b. 1958 | English | playwright | More Bigger Snacks Now, A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, Sarrasine, A Judgement in Stone and Now That It's Morning | |
| b. 1953 | English | writer, director, producer | | |
| 1887–1962 | American | editor, memoirist | | |
| b. 1976 | American | Author | Authored Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy | [47] |
| 1760–1844 | English | novelist, travel writer | Vathek | |
| c. 1640–1689 | English | dramatist, poet and novelist | Oroonoko | |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | This Wound Is a World | [48] |
| b. 1988 | French | football player, writer | Adieu ma honte | [49] |
| b. 1987 | Canadian | poet | Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage | |
| b. 1946 | American | novelist, essayist | Autobiographie érotique | [50] |
| 1867–1940 | English | novelist | Dodo | |
| 1748–1832 | English | philosopher | An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation | |
| b. 1974 | American-Canadian | | Butch Is A Noun | [51] |
| 1918–1990 | American | composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist | West Side Story | [52] |
| b. ? | American | novelist | The End of San Francisco | [53] |
| b. 1975 | American | Autobiographer | Little Girl Lost | [54] |
| b. 1975 | Spanish | journalist, writer, actress | Antena 3 Noticias | [55] |
| b. 1974 | British | playwright, novelist and activist | Sochi 2014 | [56] |
| 1909–1986 | Argentine | essayist, novelist and editor | Various works published in the magazine Sur | [57] |
| b. 1962 | Canadian | novelist | Flight of Aquavit | [58] |
| 1959–2016 | Dutch | novelist | Bekentenissen van een Stamhouder ("Confessions of a Son and Heir") | [59] |
| b. ? | American | novelist | Nevada | [60] |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | The All + Flesh | [61] |
| 1911–1979 | American | poet, short story writer | North and South, Questions of Travel | |
| b. 1939 | Canadian | poet | Awake in the Red Dessert (spoken word album) | [62] |
| b. 1951 | Canadian | novelist, non-fiction writer | Sunnybrook, Prozac Highway | [63] |
| 1939–2021 | Canadian | novelist, playwright | A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, Mad Shadows, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction | |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | Fresh Pack of Smokes | [64] |
| 1925–2009 | Canadian | poet | The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (editor) | [65] |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | Twoism | [66] |
| b. 1981 | American | poet | All the Heat We Could Carry | [67] |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Bug | [68] |
| b. 1983 | American | playwright, librettist, lyricist, TV writer | Atomic, Squad 85 | [69] |
| b. 1942 | Canadian | playwright | Tightrope Time: Ain't Nuthin' More Than Some Itty Bitty Madness Between Twilight and Dawn | [70] |
| b. ? | American | memoirist | My Lesbian Husband, Body Geographic | [71] |
| b. 1958 | Canadian | playwright | Lilies, The Orphan Muses | |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist | After Elias, The Rebellious Tide | [72] |
| 1899–1973 | Irish | novelist | Eva Trout | |
| 1917–1973 | American | novelist, playwright | Two Serious Ladies | |
| 1910–1999 | American | novelist, poet, translator | The Sheltering Sky | |
| b. 1971 | Irish | novelist | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | [73] |
| 1963–2008 | Canadian | novelist | Wigger | [74] |
| b. 1952 | American | novelist | Father of Frankenstein | |
| 1945–2021 | Brazilian | screenwriter | | [75] |
| b. 1953 | Canadian | novelist, poet | Land to Light On, What We All Long For, Sans Souci | [76] |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Benchmarks, The Bathhouse Suite, Burying Michael | [77] |
| 1941–2015 | Canadian | poet | A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Women | [78] |
| b. 1947 | American | non-fiction, novels, poetry, plays | ″How to Survive Your Own Gay Life″ ″King of Angels, A Novel About the Genesis of Identity and Belief″ | [79] |
| b. 1946 | Canadian | stage director, filmmaker and actor | Once Upon a Time in the East, Le soleil se lève en retard (both films) | [80] |
| 1898–1956 | German | playwright | The Threepenny Opera | |
| b. 1994 | American | singer, songwriter, producer | Punisher, Stranger in the Alps | [81] |
| b. ? | Canadian | journalist | | |
| b. 1967 | American | novelist | Liquor, Prime, and Soul Kitchen | |
| b. 1958 | American | novelist | Godspeed | [82] |
| b. 1949 | American | historian | A Queer History of the United States | [83] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist, non-fiction | One Hundred Days of Rain, Wreck Beach | [84] |
| 1929–1995 | English | novelist | Hackenfeller's Ape | |
| b. 1943 | French Canadian | poet, novelist | L'Echo bouge beau | |
| b. 1949 | Greek-American | poet | Beginning with O | |
| b. 1956 | American | novelist | The Gifts of the Body | [85] |
| b. 1944 | American | novelist | Rubyfruit Jungle | |
| b. 1982 | American | memoirist | Paranormal State: My Journey into the Unknown | [86] |
Michael C. Burgess | b. 1956 | British | poet | Blue Rhapsody, The Victims | [87] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist, short stories | Light | [88] |
| b. 1957 | Canadian | playwright | Tinka's New Dress | [89] |
| 1916–1953 | American | novelist | The Gallery | |
| 1914–1997 | American | novelist | Naked Lunch, Queer | [90] |
| b. 1948 | Italian | novelist | Seminar on Youth | [91] |
| b. 1959 | Canadian | playwright | Black Friday | [92] |
| 1739–1829 | Anglo-Irish | diarist | Ladies of Llangollen : letters and journals of Lady Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831) | |
| b. 1956 | American | philosophy, ethics, queer theory | Gender Trouble (1990) | [93] |
| 1835–1902 | English | novelist | Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh | |
| 1788–1824 | English | poet | Don Juan (poem) | | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| b. 1954 | American | non-fiction | Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex | [94] |
| b. 1938 | Canadian | novelist, poet, screenwriter | Dreamspeaker (screenplay) | [95] |
| b. 1943 | Canadian | biographies and memoirs, poetry | No Previous Experience | [96] |
| b. 1964 | American | poet | "Silence= Death" | [97] |
| 1924–1984 | American | novelist, non-fiction | Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood | |
| 1949–2020 | Canadian | mystery novelist, non-fiction | Bound by Duty: Walking the Beat with Canada's Cops | [98] |
| b. ? | American | speculative fiction | Green Thumb | [99] |
| 1934–1994 | Mexican | actor, activist, filmmaker | México de mis amores (documentary) | |
| b. 1966 | American | non-fiction | Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas | [100] |
| 1844–1929 | English | poet, academic | Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure | |
| b. ? | American | short stories | Little Reef | [101] |
| 1863–1893 | Cuban | poet | Mi museo ideal (poetry collection) | |
| b. 1942 | American | playwright, critic | Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Genders | [102] |
| b. 1989 | American | novelist | The House of Impossible Beauties | [103] |
| b. 1975 | American | poet | Zero at the Bone | [104] |
| b.1957 | American | poet, professor | More Than Peace and Cypresses | [105] |
| b. 1971 | American | writer, actor | Cottonmouth Kisses | [106] |
| 1873–1947 | American | novelist, writer of stort stories and essays | My Ántonia | |
| ca 85–ca 55 B.C. | Roman | poet | Catullus et in eum commentarius | |
| 1863–1933 | Greek | poet | "Ithaca" (poem) | |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet, dramatist, short stories | How You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova | [107] |
| 1902–1963 | Spanish | poet | La realidad y el deseo | |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist | What I Know About You | |
| b. 1971 | Canadian | playwright | Afterimage, Butler's Marsh, Tempting Providence (plays) | [108] |
| b. 1939 | Canadian | poet, essayist | L'Afficheur hurle, En nouvelle barbarie | [109] |
| 1937–1983 | American | playwright | Tales of the Revolution and Other American Fables | |
| b. 1968 | American | writer of mysteries and humorous caper fiction | Shay O'Hanlon Caper Series | [110] |
| b. 1973 | Canadian | television personality | Lorenzo (1963) | |
| 1941–1989 | British | Screenwriter | A liar's Autobiography | |
| b. 1953 | American | historian | | [111] |
| 1954–2022 | Canadian | playwright | Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus par les géologues, Je vous écris du Caire | [112] |
| b. 1967 | American | novelist, poet, journalist | Edinburgh, The Queen of Night | [113] |
| 1912–1982 | American | novelist, short stories | The Enormous Radio, The Five-Forty-Eight, The Wapshot Chronicle, The Swimmer | |
| b. ? | Canadian | memorist | Scenes from the Underground | [114] |
| b. 1964 | American | screenwriter | High Art, Laurel Canyon, The Kids Are All Right | [115] |
| 1939–2019 | Canadian | novelist, memoirist | The Jade Peony, Paper Shadows, All That Matters | [116] |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | The Gospel of Breaking | [117] |
| b. 1985 | American | writer | Defekt | [118] |
| b. 1937 | French | philosopher, writer | "The Laugh of the Medusa" (essay) | |
| b. 1963 | American | writer | Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure | [119] |
| b. ? | American | novelist | The Unbroken | [120] |
| 1710–1789 | English | novelist | Fanny Hill | |
| b. 1947 | American | comedian | Don't Get Me Started, What the L, and I Told You So | [121] |
| 1889–1963 | French | poet, novelist, dramatist | La Voix humaine | |
| 1953–1994 | American | novelist | I Look Divine, Such Times | [122] |
| b. 1956 | American | poet | Touch (poetry collection) | [123] |
| b. 1952 | Canadian | writer | Pornography and the sex crisis | [124] |
| 1873–1954 | French | novelist | Claudine series | |
| b. 1980 | Canadian | writer | A Softer World, Overqualified, Lockpick Pornography | [125] |
| 1884–1969 | English | writer | Manservant and Maidservant | |
| 1907–1996 | Spanish | academic, poet, writer | Poesía ante el tiempo y la inmortalidad | [126] [127] |
| 1959–1994 | Australian | actor, writer | Holding the Man | [128] |
| b. 1984/1985 | American | memoirist | | [129] |
| b. 1951 | American | writer | The Bill From My Father: A Memoir | |
| b. 1953 | American | writer | George Miles Cycle | [130] |
Copi (pseudonym of Raúl Damonte) | 1941–1987 | Argentine/French | writer, actor, director, cartoonist | La Femme assise | |
| b. 1964 | American | mystery writer | The Actor's Guide to Murder, The Actor's Guide to Adultery, The Actor's Guide to Greed, Where the Bears Are | [131] |
| 1953–1995 | American | novelist | Fragments That Remain | [132] |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses | [133] |
| 1948–2016 | American | activist, journalist | When We Were Outlaws: a Memoir of Love and Revolution | [134] |
| 1855–1924 | Scottish | writer | A Romance of Two Worlds | |
| 1919–2016 | American | writer | A Chosen World | [135] |
| b. 1943 | American | poet, novelist, critic | | [136] |
| b. 1960 | Canadian | academic | Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging | [137] |
| b. 1961 | Canadian | novelist, short story writer, playwright | , Microserfs, JPod | [138] |
| b. 1951 | Brazilian | cartoonist, screenwriter | Chiclete com Banana, Piratas do Tietê | [139] |
| b. 1978 | Canadian | writer | Sweet (poetry collection) | [140] |
| 1899–1973 | English | playwright | Private Lives | |
| b. 1976 | Canadian | writer | Shuck, Krakow Melt | [141] |
| b. 1969 | Canadian | spoken word performer, writer | Tomboy Survival Guide | [142] |
| b. 1967 | American | novelist, critic | Necessary Errors, American Sympathy | [143] |
| 1899–1933 | American | poet | The Bridge | |
| | Canadian | playwright | The Birds and the Bees, Bed and Breakfast | [144] |
| 1908–1999 | British | books, stage, screen, TV | "The Naked Civil Servant" | [145] |
| b. ? | Canadian | short stories | Barrelling Forward | |
| 1935–2020 | American | playwright | The Boys in the Band | [146] |
| 1903–1946 | American | writer | Color (poetry collection) | |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet, short stories | Science Fiction Saint, Pearl, Untitled Child, and Canary (a short story collection) | [147] |
| b. 1945 | Canadian | businessman | Teacups & Sticky Buns | [148] |
| b. 1952 | American | novelist | The Hours | |
| 1965–1994 | Canadian | playwright | Passages | [149] |
| b. ? | New Zealand | screenwriter, film director | Everything We Loved, Rūrangi | [150] |
| b. 1955 | American | novelist, short stories | Dancing on the Moon, Where the Rainbow Ends, The Wolf at the Door | [151] |
| b. ? | American/Canadian | poet | The Inquisition Yours | [152] | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| b. 1979 | American | autobiographer | Full Disclosure | [153] |
| b. 1946 | Canadian | poet, novelist, short stories | Les Cendres bleues, Black Diva | [154] |
| b. 1954 | American | comedian, actor, playwright | South Pathetic | [155] |
| b. 1953 | American | novelist, short stories | Valley of the Shadow, Philadelphia | [156] |
| b. 1975 | American | screenwriter | Teen Wolf | [157] |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | Make a List | [158] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist | Sub Rosa | [159] |
| b. 1982 | Chilean-Canadian | novelist, poet, non-fiction | Désormais, ma demeure | [160] |
| b. 1942 | American | novelist, literary critic | Hogg, Dhalgren, The Motion of Light in Water, Dark Reflections | [161] |
| b. 1968 | Canadian | novelist | Indigo Springs | [162] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist, playwright | The Bone Mother, Touch, If Betty Should Rise | [163] |
| b. 1982 | Jamaican | novelist | Here Comes the Sun, Patsy | [164] |
| b. 1973 | American | memoirist, author, essayist, humorist | Gay Haiku, Swish, Lawfully Wedded Husband | [165] |
| 1882–1950 | Chilean | novelist | Palabras para canciones | |
| b. 1965 | American | comedian, actor, musician, and television and film producer | The Ben Stiller Show, NewsRadio, The Andy Dick Show | [166] |
| 1830–1886 | American | poet | The Poems of Emily Dickinson | |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses | |
| b. 1961 | American | playwright | Memphis, Fucking Men | [167] |
| b. 1974 | Canadian | novelist | The Geography of Pluto, The Family Way | [168] |
| 1940–2008 | American | novelist, poet | On Wings of Song | [169] |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | When We Were Singing, The Dissociates, The Piano Teacher | [170] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist | Six Metres of Pavement | [171] |
| b. 1995 | English | novelist, short stories | Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons, Untitled Short Story Collection | |
| 1572–1631 | English | poet | | |
| 1950–2021 | American | novelist | The Bar Stories: A Novel After All, The Love Songs of Phoenix Bay | [172] |
| b. 1969 | Irish/Canadian | novelist, short story writer | Room | [173] |
| 1925–1996 | Chilean | novelist | Hell Has No Limits | |
| 1928–1992 | American | young adult novelist, dramatist | I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip | [174] |
H.D., born Hilda Doolittle | 1886–1961 | American | poet | Helen in Egypt | |
| 1928–2003 | Canadian | academic literature, erotica | Entre Montréal ...et Sudbury, Témoins d'errances en Ontario français, Hermaphrodismes | [175] |
| b. 1953 | American | poet and memoirist | Heaven's Coast, Fire to Fire | [176] |
| 1870–1945 | English | poet | Oscar Wilde and Myself | |
| 1868–1952 | Scottish-Austrian | novelist | Old Calabria | |
| 1958–2021 | American | novelist, non-fiction | Perfect Agreement, Breakfast with Scot | [177] |
| b. 1960 | Canadian | playwright | Prok, The Fruit Machine, The Norbals | [178] |
| b. 1964 | Australian | novelist | Izzy and Eve | [179] |
| 1907–1989 | English | author, playwright | Rebecca | [180] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist, short story writer | Editor of several anthologies of gay male literature | [181] |
| b. 1955 | Canadian | playwright | Being at Home with Claude | |
| b. 1955 | Scottish | poet, playwright | Standing Female Nude | [182] |
| b. 1933 | English | novelist, poet, playwright | That's How It Was | |
| b. 1963 | English/New Zealand | novelist | State of Happiness | [183] |
| 1919–1988 | American | poet | The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, and Bending the Bow | |
| b. 1963 | Canadian | mystery | Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, Making a Killing, The Scene Stealer | [184] |
| | Canadian | playwright | The Gay Heritage Project, Outside | |
| b. 1969 | Canadian | novelist, short story writer | The Dirt Chronicles | [185] |
| b. 1956 | American | novelist | Blackbird, Got 'til It's Gone | [186] |
| 1949–2022 | American | novelist, poet | Beyond the Pale | | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| b. 1961 | American-Israeli | novelist | Light Fell, When We Danced on Water | [198] |
| b. ? | American | young adult literature | If You Could Be Mine | [199] |
| b. 1999 | Nigerian | Poetry | In the Nude, Mannequin in the Nude | [200] |
| 1956–1994 | American | journalist | Queer and Loathing | [201] |
| 1949–2014 | American | novelist, non-fiction | Stone Butch Blues | [202] |
| b. ? | Canadian | memoirist | Me, Myself, They | [203] |
| b. ? | American | novelist | Where She Was, Home for the Day, Have You Heard | [204] |
| 1941–1988 | American | novelist | The Family of Max Desir | |
| 1935–1986 | German | writer | Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit | |
| b. 1924 | American | poetry | Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963-1992 | |
| b. 1954 | American | playwright | Torch Song Trilogy | [205] |
| 1961–2017 | Canadian | poetry | Beneath the Naked Sun, Poems for a New World | |
| 1930–2002 | Canadian | novelist, playwright | The Wars, Headhunter, Elizabeth Rex | [206] |
| b. ? | Canadian | dramatist | Freda and Jem's Best of the Week | [207] |
| b. 1945 | Canadian | playwright | Eve, Human Remains, Failure of Nerve | [208] |
| 1886–1926 | English | novelist | Valmouth, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli | |
| b. 1955 | Canadian | playwright | Myth Me, By a Thread | |
| 1892–1978 | American | journalist | Foreign correspondent in Paris, France | |
| b. ? | Canadian | short stories | The Night Is a Mouth | [209] |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Agokwe | [210] |
| b. 1968 | American | novelist, non-fiction | Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me, That's Mr. Faggot to You | [211] |
| 1879–1970 | English | novelist | Maurice, A Passage to India, A Room With A View, Howards End | [212] |
| b. ? | American | short stories | The Rest of Us | [213] |
| 1924–1997 | Canadian | mysteries | The Monarchs Are Flying, Legal Tender | |
| 1926–1984 | French | philosopher | The History of Sexuality | |
| b. 1971 | Canadian | novelist | Fruit | [214] |
| b. ? | American | novelist, short stories | Crybaby Butch, All I Love and Know | [215] |
| b. 1959 | Canadian | playwright | Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Poor Super Man | |
| 1852–1930 | American | novelist, short story writer, poet | A New England Nun | |
| 1850–1934 | American | writer | Expiation | |
| 1923–1994 | Czech | novelist | The Cremator | [216] |
| b. 1958 | Canadian | non-fiction | Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada | [217] |
| 1969–2015 | Canadian | novelist | Dead Rock Stars, Cherry Blossoms | [218] | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| b. 1962 | British | novelist | Rough Music | [219] |
| 1898–1936 | Spanish | poet and playwright | Poeta en Nueva York | |
| b. 1946 | Puerto Rican | novelist, essayist | Happy Days, Uncle Sergio | |
| b. 1945 | Colombian | novelist, columnist | Dabeiba | |
| 1938–2014 | American | novelist | Annie on My Mind | [220] |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Pants on Fire | [221] |
| b. 1974 | Canadian | playwright | Motifs & Repetitions | [222] |
| b. 1963 | Canadian | journalist, biographer | Affirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter, The Rice Queen Diaries, The Trial of Pope Benedict | [223] |
| b. 1974 | American | novelist, essayist | Bad Feminist | [224] |
| 1910–1986 | French | novelist, playwright, poet | Our Lady of the Flowers | |
| 1868–1933 | German | poet | Main person of the literary and academic group known as the George-Kreis | |
| 1960–1989 | Korean | poet | Black Leaf in My Mouth | [225] |
| 1869–1951 | French | novelist | The Immoralist | |
| b. 1952 | Canadian | playwright | | |
| 1935–2021 | American | novelist, poet, short stories | Music I Never Dreamed Of | [226] |
| 1926–1997 | American | poet | Howl | |
| b. ? | Canadian | young adult literature | Girl Mans Up | [227] |
| 1909–1981 | Canadian | poet | Memoirs of Montparnasse | |
| b. 1994 | British | young adult literature | The Rosewood Chronicles | [228] [229] |
| 1809–1852 | Ukrainian | novelist, playwright | Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka | |
| b. 1958 | American | novelist, screenwriter | A Poet of the Invisible World, Silk | [230] |
| b. 1950 | Australian | novelist | The Prosperous Thief | |
| 1933–1998 | Spanish | novelist, playwright | L'Agneau carnivore, Ana non | [231] |
| b. 1952 | Cuban | novelist, playwright | Send My Roots Rain | [232] |
| b. 1985 | Polish | nonfiction writer | | [233] |
| b. 1970 | American, Chicano | poet, memoirist, critic | Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, Antonio's Card, Unpeopled Eden, What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth | [234] |
| b. 1952 | American | poet, essayist, biographer | Jailbait and Other Stories | |
| 1911–1972 | American | poet | Growing Up Absurd, The Community of Scholars | |
| 1931–2017 | Spanish | poet, essayist, novelist | | |
| b. 1940 | American | poet | Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling (poetry collection) | |
| b. 1941 | American | science fiction | The Secret in the Bird, Slick, Stranded | [235] |
| b. ? | Canadian | short stories, novelist, poet | Crisp, Entropic | [236] |
| 1716–1771 | English | poet | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Body Politic | [237] |
| b. 1953 | American | novelist, historian | What the Dead Remember, The German Officer's Boy | [238] |
| b. 1978 | American | novelist | What Belongs to You | [239] |
| b. 1973 | Canadian | short story writer | The Gay Icon Classics of the World, This High School Has Closets | [240] |
| b. 1988 | American | author, songwriter | | |
| b. ? | American | novelist | Hide | [241] |
| 1918–2022 | American | novelist, biographer, essayist | Chamber Music | |
| 1955–1991 | French | novelist | L'homme blessé (screenplay that he co-wrote) | [242] |
| b. 1964 | French | screenwriter, novelist | Stranger by the Lake, Now the Night Begins | [243] |
| 1929–2004 | English | poet | The Man with Night Sweats | | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
---|
| | Canadian | memoirist | We Have Always Been Here | [244] |
| b. 1983 | Kuwaiti-British | novelist | Guapa | [245] |
| 1880–1943 | English | novelist | The Well of Loneliness | |
| 1926–1992 | American | novelist, short stories, drama, criticism | Couplings | |
| b. 1973 | American | novelist, short story writer | The View from Stalin's Head (short story collection), Faith for Beginners | |
| b. 1954 | Canadian | poet, short story writer, memoirist, novelist | Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes, Hunger, Body Rain, No More Hurt, Weekend | [246] |
| b. 1975 | American | novelist, short story writer | Blue Water Dreams | [247] |
| b. ? | Canadian | screenwriter | North Mountain, Wildhood | [248] |
| 1923–2004 | American | novelist, poet | Series of novels featuring private eye Dave Brandstetter | |
| 1952–1995 | Canadian | | Freelance contributor to The Advocate, Village Voice and Penthouse | [249] |
| 1937–2005 | American | novelist | Lover | |
| b. 1980 | Canadian | non-fiction, young adult literature | The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection | [250] |
| b. 1970 | American | novelist, short story writer | You Are Not A Stranger Here, Imagine Me Gone | [251] |
| b. 1962 | American | novelist, poet | Through It Came Bright Colors | [252] |
| b. ? | Canadian | short stories | The Pump | [253] |
| b. 1966 | American | novelist | Mysterious Skin | |
| 1957–1995 | American | poet, activist | Co-founder of Nethula Journal of Contemporary Literature | |
| b. 1965 | English | novelist, critic, journalist | The Mulberry Empire | [254] |
| 1926–2001 | Canadian | playwright | Fortune and Men's Eyes | [255] |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright, novelist | Scarborough | [256] |
| b. 1961 | American | novelist | Murder in the Rue Chartres | [257] |
| 1921–1995 | American | novelist | The Talented Mr. Ripley | |
| b. 1952 | American | poet | Part of the Bargain | |
| b. 1951 | Canadian | novelist, playwright | The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Kiss of the Fur Queen | |
| b. ? | American | novelist | What We Do Is Secret | |
| 1936–2012 | Canadian | poet | The Carnal and the Crane | |
| 4th Century B.C. | Athenian | poet | numerous love poems to Lysis | [258] |
| 1946–1988 | French | theorist | Homosexual Desire, L'Amour en relief | |
| b. 1967 | Canadian | poet | Misled, Joy Is So Exhausting, Throaty Wipes | [259] |
Andrew Holleran (pseudonym of Eric Garber) | b. 1943 | American | novelist, essayist | Dancer from the Dance | |
| b. 1954 | English | novelist | The Swimming Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty | |
| b. 1985 | American | playwright | Hit the Wall, Exit Strategy, The Wolf at the End of the Block | [260] |
| 1844–1889 | English | poet | The Habit of Perfection | |
| 65-8 B.C. | Roman | poet | Odes | |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | Riot Lung, For Your Own Good | [261] |
| b. 1971 | American | novelist, journalist | | |
| b. 1961 | British | pianist, composer, writer | The Final Retreat | |
| 1859–1936 | English | poet | A Shropshire Lad | |
| 1929–2022 | American | poet | Alone With America | |
| b. 1946 | American | children's writer | | [262] |
| b. 1957 | Canadian | novelist | Blood Books series | [263] |
| 1902–1967 | American | poet | The Big Sea | |
| b. 1997 | British | poet | I Bet I Can Make You Laugh | [264] |
| 1959–1993 | American | novelist, short stories | Dream Life, The Listener | [265] |
| 1848–1907 | French | novelist | Against the Grain (À rebours, 1884) | |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | Rough Skin | [266] | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
---|
| b. 2000 | Australian | television journalist | 10 News First Perth | [275] |
| 1914–2001 | Finnish | novelist, painter, illustrator, comic strip author | Moomins series | [276] |
| 1942–1994 | English | author and filmmaker | At Your Own Risk | |
| 1873–1907 | French | writer | Ubu Roi | |
| 1849–1909 | American | novelist, short story writer and poet | The Country of the Pointed Firs | |
| 1812–1880 | British | novelist, London literary social figure | Zoe: the History of Two Lives | [277] [278] [279] |
| b. ? | American | screenwriter, film director | True Adolescents, The Skeleton Twins | [280] |
| b. 1985 | American | comedian | Saturday Night Live, The Comedy Store | [281] |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright, screenwriter | Coin Slot, Freedom, I Forgive You | [282] |
| 1936–2002 | American | poet | Directed by Desire: Collected Poems | |
| 1898–1986 | Spanish | chronicler, translator, storyteller | Personajes de la Inquisición [Characters of the Inquisition, by William Thomas Walsh], Un hueco en la luz | [283] |
| 1930–1986 | Canadian | screenwriter | Mon oncle Antoine, Kamouraska | [284] | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
---|
| b. 1960 | American | romance, erotica, science fiction | Maybe Next Time | [285] |
| b. 1981 | Australian | radio presenter, journalist | RN Breakfast | [286] |
| b. ? | American | novelist, journalist | A Push and a Shove | [287] |
| b. 1988 | Australian | radio presenter, journalist | Breakfast | [288] |
| b. 1967 | English | novelist | London Triptych | [289] |
| 1963–2020 | American | writer | Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, A Visitation of Spirits | |
| b. 1960 | American | writer, pianist, screenwriter | Practicing for Love: A Memoir | [290] [291] |
| 1929–2016 | American | poet | The Mama Poems | |
| b. 1969 | American | writer, author, memoirist | Orange is the New Black | [292] |
| 1922–1969 | American | novelist | On the Road, The Subterraneans | |
| 1952–2019 | American | poet, novelist, playwright | Bedrooms Have Windows, Impossible Princess, Stone Marmalade | [293] |
| b. 1946 | American | poet, novelist | Eating Artichokes, Dead Heat | [294] |
| b. 1955 | Canadian | sociologist | The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities | [295] |
| 1777–1811 | Prussian | poet, dramatist, short story writer, and novelist | The Broken Jug, The Marquise of O, Michael Kohlhaas, Penthesilea, The Prince of Homburg | |
| b. 1974 | Canadian | novelist, journalist, screenwriter | Tacones, Sugar | [296] |
| b. 1966 | Canadian | novelist, short story writer | Prairie Ostrich | |
| b. 1958 | American | poet and cultural critic | The Queen's Throat | [297] |
| 1948–1989 | French | playwright | La Nuit juste avant les forêts, Dans la solitude des champs de coton | [298] |
| b. 1970 | American | sportswriter, young adult literature | Out of the Pocket, Openly Straight | [299] |
| 1961–2013 | British/Canadian | novelist, playwright | The Pursemonger of fugu, Hogtown Bonbons | [300] |
| 1935–2020 | American | novelist, journalist, playwright | Faggots, The Normal Heart | |
| b. 1955 | American | writer | Thomas the Rhymer | [301] |
| b. 1956 | American | playwright | | |
| 1872–1936 | Russian | writer | The Trout Breaks the Ice | |
| b. 1959 | Singaporean-Canadian | novelist | This Place Called Absence, The Walking Boy | | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
---|
| b. 1968 | Puerto Rican | poet, playwright, scholar | Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails | |
| b. ? | Mauritian-Canadian | poet | ZOM-FAM | [302] |
| 1949–2022 | Canadian | literary critic, anthologist | Editor for works like Best Gay Erotica 2005 | [303] |
| 1938–1995 | Canadian | poet | The Delight of Hearts, or What You Will Not Find in Any Book | |
| b. 1987 | Canadian | poet | Otter | [304] |
| 1957–1995 | French | playwright | Juste la fin du monde | [305] |
| 1859–1940 | Swedish | novelist, playwright | Gösta Berling's Saga | |
| b. 1960 | American | novelist | The Gun Series police quadrology | [306] |
| b. 1992 | Canadian | novelist | Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué, Querelle de Roberval | [307] |
| b. ? | American | screenwriter | Looking | [308] |
| b. 1982 | Australian | journalist | The Family Law, Gaysia | [309] |
| 1885–1930 | English | novelist, playwright | The Rainbow, Lady Chatterley's Lover | |
| b. 1961 | American | novelist | The Lost Language of Cranes | |
| b. 1950 | American | comedic essayist | | [310] |
| 1907–1972 | French | novelist | La Batarde, Therese and Isabelle | |
| 1933–2013 | Canadian | sociologist | The Colours of Love, Getting Sex | [311] |
| 1856–1935 | French | essayist | Satan the Waster | |
| b. 1979 | American | novelist | Machineries of Empire | [312] |
| b. 1976 | Ukrainian-American | author | The Four Profound Weaves | [313] |
| 1963-2014 | Brazilian | singer-songwriter | Nau, The Sexual Life of the Savages (compilation) | [314] |
| 1831–1891 | Russian | literary critic, philosopher | The East, Russia, and Slavdom (essay collections) | [315] |
| b. 1957 | Canadian | playwright, screenwriter | The Confessional, Polygraph, Far Side of the Moon | |
| 1914–1998 | Canadian | poet | The Wounded Prince, Bright Glass of Memory, Macalister | |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet, short story writer | People Who Disappear, The Things I Heard About You | [316] |
| b. 1972 | American | novelist | Boy Meets Boy | [317] |
| 1775–1818 | English | novelist | The Monk | |
| 1910–1976 | Cuban | novelist | Paradiso | |
| b. 1971 | American | poet | Writer on Transparent | [318] |
| 1874–? | American | autobiographer | | [319] |
| b. 1935 | British | poet and editor | Hampstead by Night | [320] |
| b. 1966 | Australian | journalist | Lateline | [321] |
| b. ? | Canadian | memoirist | Cease | [322] |
| 1934–1992 | American | poet, essayist | , Sister Outsider | |
| b. 1985 | British | poet | Troglodyte Rose | [323] |
| b. 1969 | American | novelist | Avoidance | |
| b. ? | American | graphic novelist | Wuvable Oaf | [324] |
| 1944–1991 | Canadian | poet, journalist, academic | These Waves of Dying Friends | |
| b. 1946 | American | novelist | Chronicles of Tornor | [325] | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
---|
| b. 1958 | Canadian | playwright, novelist | Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Fall on Your Knees, The Way the Crow Flies | |
| b. 1960 | Canadian | playwright | Whale Riding Weather | [326] |
| b. 1981 | Australian | broadcast journalist | | [327] |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | High Life, The Gingko Tree | [328] |
| b. 1962 | Canadian | playwright, screenwriter | House, Marion Bridge, Weirdos | |
| 1864–1933 | Scottish-German | novelist, philosopher | Die Anarchisten (The Anarchists) | |
| b. 1981 | American | novelist | Lulu Dark (young adult series) | [329] |
| b. 1954 | American | novelist | | [330] |
| b. 1979 | Indian-Canadian | novelist | The Strike | [331] |
| 1929–2015 | Canadian | novelist | Amadou, Une Forêt pour Zoé | |
| 1906–1949 | German | novelist, short story writer | Mephisto (novel) | |
| 1875–1955 | German | novelist, short story writer, essayist | Death in Venice | |
| b. 1965 | English | novelist, poet | In the Shadow of Crows | [332] |
| b. 1949 | Colombian-American | poet, journalist | Latin Moon in Manhattan, Eminent Maricones | |
| b. 1949 | Canadian | poet | Regular columnist for Ottawa's LGBT newspaper Capital Xtra! | [333] |
| 1938–2012 | Canadian | novelist, playwright | La Terre est trop courte, Violette Leduc, Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr | |
| b. 1942 | Canadian | poet, novelist | Ana Historic, The Given, This Tremor Love Is | |
| b. 1973 | American | novelist, poet | Outline of My Lover | [334] |
| b. 1954 | American | novelist, non-fiction | Out of Time, Home Movies | [335] |
| b. 1963 | French | film director, screenwriter | Jeanne et le Garçon formidable | [336] |
| b. 1978 | South African/British | novelist | The Drowning People | [337] |
| b. 1979 | American | novelist | Clay's Way, Us Ones in Between | |
| b. 1949 | Puerto Rican | poet | Las mujeres no hablan asi, A través del aire y del fuego pero no del cristal' "El arte de morir y La pequeña muerte,"Aliens in NYC." | |
| 1902–1950 | American | literary critic | American Renaissance | |
| 1874–1965 | English | playwright, novelist | Of Human Bondage | |
| b. 1944 | American | novelist | Tales of the City | |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Obaaberima | [338] |
| 1949–2021 | American | short story writer, poet | Ghost Letters (poetry collection) | |
| b. 1974 | Irish | novelist, academic | The First Verse | |
| 1917–1967 | American | novelist | Reflections in a Golden Eye | |
| b. 1955 | British | novelist | The Mermaids Singing | |
| b. 1953 | American | novelist, playwright | Acqua Calda | |
| ? | Crime Fiction | novelist | The Nancys, Nancy Business | [339] [340] |
| 1950–1999 | American | novelist, screenwriter | Beetlejuice screenplay and story | [341] |
| 1955–1991 | American/Canadian | novelist | Boys Like Us, Sweetheart | [342] |
| b. 1965 | Australian | novelist, essayist, critic | Indelible Ink, Strange Museums | [343] |
| b. ? | American | short story writer | Lake Overturn | |
| 1938–2020 | American | playwright | The Ritz, Love! Valour! Compassion! | [344] |
| b. 1991 | American | novelist | | [345] |
| 1906–1988 | Czech | novelist | Vyhnanci lásky (Exiles of Love) | [346] |
| 1950–2017 | American | novelist | An Arrow's Flight, American Studies | [347] |
| 1926–1995 | American | poet | The Changing Light at Sandover, A Different Person | |
| 1869–1928 | English | poet | The Farmer's Bride (poetry collection) | |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | Fif et sauvage | [348] |
| 1947–2009 | American | mysteries | A Body to Dye For, Dead as a Doornail | |
| 1475–1564 | Italian | artist, poet | Poetry and artistic work such as "David" | |
| b. ? | Canadian | mystery, children's | UnCatholic Conduct, Illicit Artifacts | [349] |
| 1892–1950 | American | poet | "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare", "Renascence", and "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" (poems) | |
Isabel Miller (pseudonym of Alma Routsong) | 1924–1996 | American | novelist | A Place for Us | |
| 1896–1966 | Canadian | journalist, poet | Les Mouches Fantastiques | [350] |
| b. 1985 | Brazilian | journalist, politician | Detailing mass surveillance by the NSA | [351] |
| 1608–1674 | English | poet | Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained | |
| 1925–1970 | Japanese | poet, playwright, novelist | Confessions of a Mask | |
| 1938–2022 | Argentine | essayist and academic | |
| 1945–1995 | American | poet, essayist | Borrowed Time | |
| 1938–2010 | Mexican | journalist, biographer | Días de guardar | |
| b. 1957 | Canadian | novelist | Cereus Blooms at Night, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab | [352] |
| b. 1952 | Chicana | poet, essayist, playwright | Loving in the War Years | |
| b. 1947 | American | novelist, essayist | "Buddies" cycle of novels | [353] |
| 1903–1956 | Peruvian | poet | La tortuga ecuestre | |
| b. 1965 | Belgian | novelist, poet, essayist, translator | While the Gods Were Sleeping | [354] |
| b. 1955 | Canadian | poet | Furious, O Cidadan, Little Theatres | |
| b. 1958 | Slovenian | poet, writer, editor, translator | Banalije | [355] |
| b. 1939 | American | novelist, poet | Her | [356] |
| b. 1985 | New Zealand | novelist | Gideon the Ninth | [357] |
| 1910–1984 | Argentine | novelist, essayist | Glosas castellanas | |
| b. 1969 | German | novelist | Welche Farbe auch immer oder das Blaue Gefühl | [358] |
| b. 1949 | American | poet and essayist | Chelsea Girls | [359] | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| b. 1987 | Canadian | novelist | God in Pink | [360] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist, poet, short stories | The Housekeeping Journals, Rooster, Dog, Crow | [361] |
Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens) | b. 1970 | Canadian | poet | The Middle Notebooks, Touch to Affliction | |
| 1940–1994 | French | writer | Le Jardin d'acclimatation | |
| b. 1954 | American | mystery novels | How Town, The Hidden Law, The Death of Friends, The Burning Plain, and Rag and Bone | |
| b. 1976 | Iranian/American | novelist, screenwriter | The Walk-In Closet, The Quiet | [362] |
| b. 1966 | Puerto Rican | filmmaker | Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican | |
| b. 1970 | Puerto Rican | short stories | Mundo Cruel | [363] |
| b. 1971 | American | novelist | Chaos Walking, Monsters of Men, A Monster Calls | [364] |
| b. 1981 | British | screenwriter | Ticking, Chicken, A Smallholding | [365] |
| 1903–1977 | French | diarist | Delta of Venus, Little Birds | |
| 1904–1974 | Mexican | poet | Romance de Angelillo y Adela | |
| b. ? | American | writer | Crashing America | [366] |
|
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| 1943–2020 | Canadian | playwright, screenwriter | A Touch of God in the Golden Age, Sugar | |
| b. 1952 | Canadian | playwright | Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, The Ends of the Earth | |
| b. ? | American | writer | The Originals, | |
| b. 1946 | Canadian | poet, novelist | Paper Trails, Leaving Now, Lake of Two Mountains | [372] |
| 1885–1933 | Russian | poet | Алмаст (Almast, (libretto) | |
| 1922–1975 | Italian | novelist, playwright | Ragazzi di vita, Una vita violenta | |
| b. 1954 | Puerto Rican | poet, narrator, essayist | Cartas a la sombra de tu piel | [373] |
| 1839–1894 | British | novelist, essayist, literary critic | The Renaissance (1873), Marius the Epicurean (1885) | |
| b. 1962 | Canadian | novelist | The Branion Realm (book series) | |
Robert Patrick | b. 1937 | American | playwright | Kennedy's Children, Camera Obscura | |
| b. 1971 | American/Canadian | memoirist | How to Get a Girl Pregnant | [374] |
| 1906–1977 | Italian | poet | This Strange Joy | |
| 1830–1894 | Uruguayan | poet | La nave de los locos | [375] |
| 1949–1992 | Argentine | poet | Prosa plebeya | |
| 1888–1935 | Portuguese | poet, literary critic | Mensagem, The Book of Disquiet | |
| c. 27–66 | Roman | novelist | The Satyricon | |
| 1931–2020 | Canadian | novelist | Sunday's Child, Buried on Sunday | [376] |
| 1632–1664 | English | poet | Translator of Pierre Corneille's Pompée and Horace | |
| b. 1975 | Canadian | poet | Love Cake (poetry collection) | |
| 1921–1981 | Hungarian | poet | Nagyvárosi ikonok | [377] |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | Cutting Room, Common Place | [378] |
| 1912–1979 | Cuban | poet, novelist, playwright | Rene's Flesh | |
| 1923–1978 | Canadian | novelist, dramatist | Les terres sèches | |
| 1936–1972 | Argentine | poet | Los trabajos y las noches, Extracción de la piedra de la locura and El infierno musical | |
| b. 1940 | American | novelist | Francoeur Trilogy--The Family, The Country and The Woods | |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist | Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian), Any Other City | [379] |
| 1796–1835 | Bavarian | poet | Gedichte | |
| 427–327 B.C. | Greek | philosopher | | |
| b. 1987 | Canadian | short stories | A Safe Girl to Love | |
| 1903–1973 | South African | novelist, poet | | |
| c. 46–c. 119 | Greek | historian, biographer, essayist | Parallel Lives | |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | True Concessions | [380] |
| 1965–2008 | American | journalist | So You Want to be a Lesbian? | [381] |
| 1755–1831 | Anglo-Irish | writer | Known as one of the "Ladies of Llangollen" | |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Crippled | [382] |
| 1906–1977 | Slovenian | novelist, dramatist | Neznani storilec (The Unknown Perpetrator, first crime novel of Slovenia); Bruc: roman neznanega slovenskega študenta (Freshman: The Novel of an Unknown Slovene Student, an autobiographical novel which explores the fluidity of sexual identity in the interwar period) | [383] [384] [385] |
| 1945–1994 | American | novelist, editor | I Once Had a Master | |
| 1858–1942 | American | novelist, journalist | Imre: a Memorandum, The Intersexes, Left to Themselves: Being the Ordeal of Philip and Gerald, White Cockades | |
| 1871–1922 | French | novelist, essayist | A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) | |
| 1932–1990 | Argentine | novelist | Kiss of the Spider Woman | | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| b. 1972 | Canadian | novels, short stories | Scars | [390] |
| 1964-2012 | Canadian | humorist | Fraud, Don't Get Too Comfortable | [391] |
| b. 1984 | Syrian-Canadian | novelist, short stories | Death and Other Fools, Aria, The Clothesline Swing | [392] |
| 1948–1990 | Puerto Rican | poet, writer | The Story of the Woman of the Sea | |
| 1928–2020 | Canadian | scientific skeptic | An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural | [393] |
| b. 1954 | American | novelist, short stories, memoir, mysteries | Dancing on Tisha B'Av, Winter Eyes | [394] |
| b. 1968 | Tanzanian/Canadian | screenwriter, poet | Touch of Pink | [395] |
| b. 1947 | Canadian | political scientist | On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics | [396] |
| b. 1931 | American | fiction | City of Night | |
| b. ? | American | young adult fiction | Seven Ways We Lie, Note Worthy, Final Draft | [397] |
| 1956-2002 | American | fiction, memoir, erotica | Facing It, Longing | |
| b. 1990 | Canadian | young adult fiction | When Everything Feels Like the Movies | [398] |
| b. 1975 | American | poet | Inheritance, The Gay Rub, In The Room, and 3-Pack Jack (poetical works) | [399] |
| 1905–1983 | English | fiction | The Charioteer, The Last of the Wine | |
| b. ? | South African/American | memoirist | The Jack Bank | [400] |
| 1899–1961 | Dutch | writer | Terug naar het eiland | [401] |
| 1923–2006 | Dutch | writer | Op weg naar het einde, Nader tot U | |
| b. 1969 | American | novelist | Southland | [402] |
| b. ? | Canadian | poetry | Holding Pattern, The Bindery | |
| b. 1978 | American | author | The Heavens Rise, The Vines | [403] |
| 1929–2012 | American | poetry | The Dream of a Common Language, Diving into the Wreck | |
| b. 1961 | Canadian | playwright | Molly Wood | [404] |
| b. 1955 | Canadian | humorist | Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast | |
| 1957–2018 | Canadian | novelist | Your Mouth Is Lovely, The Impostor Bride | [405] |
| 1854–1891 | French | poetry | A Season in Hell | |
| b. 1965 | Irish | novelist | The Long Falling | [406] |
| b. 1934 | Cuban | writer | Tiempo artesano. Barcelona: Campos | |
| b. 1985 | English | poet | a | [407] |
| b. 1956 | American | writer | , Kept Boy | [408] [409] |
| 1912–1980 | Brazilian | writer, playwright | Vestido de Noiva | |
| 1936–1984 | American | novelist | Saul's Book | [410] |
| 1923–2022 | American | composer | The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem | |
| b. ? | American | comedy | Blackouts and Breakdowns | [411] |
| 1908-1996 | Canadian | novelist | As For Me and My House | [412] |
| b. ? | Canadian | mystery | A Cage of Bones | [413] |
| b. ? | Canadian | short stories | Jane and the Whales | [414] |
| b. 1962 | Canadian | journalist | Writing Below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authors, Other Men's Sons | [415] |
| b. 1944 | Canadian | poet | Action writing, Monsieur désir | |
| b. 1959 | American | novelist, editor | Finlater, GJS II, Go the Way Your Blood Beats | [416] |
| 1913–1980 | American | poetry | The Book of the Dead | |
| 1931–2007 | American/Canadian | novels, non-fiction | Desert of the Heart | |
| 1937–2011 | American | science fiction | The Female Man | [417] |
| b. c. 1986/1987 | American | novelist | If I Was Your Girl | [418] |
| b. 1956 | American | novels | The Coming Storm, The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov | [419] |
| b. 1968 | Canadian | novelist | Ten Good Seconds of Silence, Smoke, Matadora | [420] |
| b. 1965 | American | short story writer, novelist | The Dream Life of Astronauts, Send Me | |
| b. 1951 | Canadian/British | science fiction/fantasy | Lust, The Unconquered Country | [421] | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| b. 1963 | Israeli | poet | Behold, I've Found My Home, Men at the Crossroad, Introduction to Sexual Linguistics | [422] |
| 1883–1957 | Italian | poet, novelist | Songbook | |
| 1892–1962 | British | novelist | The Land | |
| 1740–1814 | French | novelist, philosopher, playwright | The 120 Days of Sodom, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, Juliette | |
| b. 1954 | American | novelist | Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club | [423] |
| 1957–1994 | American | poet, essayist, playwright | Wishing for Wings, Spells of a Voodoo Doll | [424] |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | Wanting in Arabic | |
| b. ? | American | playwright, actor, DJ, and dancer | Salam Shalom | |
| 1863–1952 | Spanish-American | novelist, poet, philosopher | The Realms of Being | |
| b. 1966 | Puerto Rican | novelist, poet, literary critic | Sirena Selena | [425] |
| c. 630–c. 570 B.C. | Greek | poet | Ode to Aphrodite | |
| 1937–1993 | Cuban | poet, playwright | Cobra | |
| 1903–1982 | New Zealander | short story writer | A Man and his Wife | |
| 1912–1995 | Belgian-American | poet, novelist, memoirist | Plant Dreaming Deep, Journal of a Solitude, The House by the Sea, Recovering and At Seventy | |
| b. 1964 | American | journalist, editor | Advice column Savage Love, Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America | [426] [427] [428] [429] [430] |
| b. 1945 | Canadian | novelist, essayist | My Paris, The Obituary, Biting the Error | |
| b. 1958 | American | novelist, historian, playwright | Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America | |
| b. 1987 | American | novelist | Villains series, Shades of Magic series, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | [431] |
| b. 1966 | Canadian | poet | The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel, Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez, Thunder Through My Veins | [432] |
| b. 1962 | Scottish | novelist | Hen's Teeth | [433] |
| 1723–1795 | English | novelist | A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent | |
| b. 1956 | American | essayist, short story writer | Naked (essay collection) | [434] |
| b. 1965 | Sri Lankan-Canadian | novelist | Funny Boy | |
| 1928–2012 | American | children's writer | Where the Wild Things Are | [435] |
| b. 1952 | Indian | writer | | [436] |
| 1742–1809 | English | poet | Louisa | |
| b. 1959 | American | short story writer | Love Sucks | |
| b. 1979 | American | novelist | Sword of the Guardian, Branded Ann | [437] |
| b. 1976 | American | blogger and editor | Founding editor of Queerty | [438] [439] |
| b. ? | Canadian | non-fiction | That Lonely Section of Hell, This One Looks Like a Boy | |
| 1963–2008 | American | poet | Some Are Drowning | [440] |
| 1951–1994 | American | journalist | The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic | |
| b. 1981 | Canadian | short story writer | God Loves Hair, She of the Mountains | [441] |
Richard Siken | b. 1967 | American | poet | Crush (Richard Siken) | [442] |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | it was never going to be okay | [443] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist, short stories | Breathing Lessons | [444] |
| 1887–1964 | English | poet | "Still Falls the Rain" (poem) | |
| b. 1962 | American | novelist, memoirist | The More I Owe You | [445] |
| b. 1962 | Scottish | novelist | Free Love and Other Stories | [446] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist, poet | Cumberland | [447] |
| b. 1965 | American | novelist | The World of Normal Boys, You Can Say You Knew Me When | |
| b. 1964 | Yemeni-Canadian | journalist, memoirist | Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes | [448] |
| b. 1965 | Mexican | novelist, essayist | Malebolge | [449] |
| 1933–2004 | American | novelist, essayist | AIDS and Its Metaphors | |
| b. 1946 | American | novelist | The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon | [450] |
| 1909–1995 | English | novelist, poet, essayist | Poems | |
| 1925–1965 | American | poet | My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer | |
| b. ? | Canadian | short story writer | First Grass Spring Fire, superioryouareinferior, My Prairie Home | |
| 1874–1946 | American | novelist | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | |
| b. 1962 | German | novelist, author for children and teenagers | The Center of the World | [451] |
| 1955–1996 | Canadian | poet | Diary of a Trademark | [452] |
| b. 1948 | Canadian | playwright | Warm Wind in China, As I Am | |
| b. ? | American | novelist | Venus of Chalk | [453] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist, poet | Vanishing Monuments, Junebat | [454] |
| 1843–1909 | American | poet, journalist | Travel books about Polynesian life | |
| b. 1954 | Canadian-American | novelist, short story writer | The Far Euphrates | [455] |
| 1880–1932 | English | biographer | Queen Victoria (biography) | |
| b. 1951 | Canadian | playwright | Rexy | |
| b. 1961 | American | historian | Transgender History (2008) | [456] |
| b. 1976 | Scottish-American | novelist | Shuggie Bain | [457] |
| 1855–1920 | Anglo-American | novelist | Tim: A Story of School Life, All That Was Possible | |
| b. 1987 | American | screenwriter | Adventure Time | [458] |
| 1837–1909 | English | poet | Poems and Ballads | |
| 1840–1893 | British | poet, literary critic | Renaissance in Italy | |
| 1933–2009 | Canadian | novelist | Place d'Armes, Civic Square, Helmet of Flesh | |
| b. 1970 | Canadian | journalist, short stories | Nothing Looks Familiar | [459] | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| b. ? | Indian/Canadian | poetry | language is not the only thing that breaks | [460] |
| b. 1937 | Japanese | poetry | Rose Tree, Fake Lovers | |
| b. 1975 | Canadian | graphic novelist | Skim | [461] |
| b. 1988 | Canadian | playwright | Get Yourself Home Skyler James, Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes, rihannaboi95 | [462] |
| b. 1967 | British | poet and playwright | The Woman Who Was Not There, Songs My Enemy Taught Me | [463] |
| 1913–1997 | American | novelist and poet | The Lusty Land, Whisper Their Love, The Girls in 3-B, Stranger on Lesbos, A World Without Men, Return to Lesbos | [464] |
| b. 1971 | American | author, poet, and literary arts organizer | The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America | [465] |
| 1884–1933 | American | writer, poet | Flame and Shadow, Love Song | |
| b. 1946 | American-Canadian | novelist, poet, short stories, essays | The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin, Pack Up the Moon | [466] |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet, novelist | A Place Called No Homeland, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars | |
| b. ? | Canadian | playwright | One Thousand Cranes, Two Weeks Twice a Year, Flesh and Blood, Sex Is My Religion | |
| b. ? | American | horror author | The Dust of Wonderland, The German | [467] |
| b. 1978 | Canadian | novelist, playwright | Skin Room, Duke | [468] |
James Tiptree Jr. (pseudonym of Alice Sheldon) | 1917–1987 | American | science fiction writer | Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever | [469] [470] [471] |
| b. 1955 | Irish | novelist and short story writer | The Heather Blazing | [472] |
| b. 1958 | Danish | comedian, writer, presenter | Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners, Great Journeys of the World | [473] |
| b. ? | Puerto Rican | journalist, memoirist | Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution | [474] |
| b. 1965 | American | playwright | Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House | |
| 1918–1993 | Canadian | playwright, memoirist, essayist | Brutus, Souvenirs pour demain | |
| b. ? | Canadian | short stories | The Divinity Gene | [475] |
| b. 1942 | Canadian | playwright, novelist | Hosanna, Les Belles-sœurs, The Heart Laid Bare, Albertine in Five Times | |
| b. 1972 | Canadian | novelist | Waiting for Paris | |
| b. 1965 | American | author | Too Much and Never Enough | [476] |
| b. 1965 | Australian | novelist | The Slap | |
| 1892–1941 | Russian | poet | Remeslo, Posle Rossii | |
| b. 1968 | Canadian | novelist, screenwriter | The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Love Ruins Everything | |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | Disintegrate / Dissociate | [477] | |
Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
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| b. 1965 | Canadian | academic, cultural studies | Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada | [488] |
| b. 1944 | American | fiction | The Color Purple | |
| b. 1969 | American | non-fiction | To be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism | [489] |
| b. 1946 | American-Canadian | poetry, non-fiction | Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing | |
| 1893–1978 | English | novelist, poet, activist | A Moral Ending and Other Stories | |
| 1936–2019 | American | fiction | The Front Runner | |
| b. 1993 | American | fiction | Lot, Memorial | [490] |
| b. 1966 | British | fiction | Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, The Night Watch | [491] |
| 1926–2017 | British-Canadian | fiction, plays | Collected Shorter Fiction of David Watmough: 1972–82 | [492] |
| 1903–1966 | English | fiction | Brideshead Revisited | [493] |
| b. 1948 | Canadian | academic, art and film critic | Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection | [494] |
| b. ? | Canadian | mysteries | Pathogen, Repercussions | [495] |
| b. 1961 | Canadian | fiction | The Lava in My Bones | [496] |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet | Whitemud Walking | [497] |
| b. 1959 | American | novelist, journalist | The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, What I Did Wrong | [498] |
| 1915–1948 | English | writer, painter | Maiden Voyage | |
| b. 1972 | American | novelist | Suspension | [499] |
| b. 1940 | American | fiction | A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty | |
| 1912–1990 | Australian | fiction | Flaws in the Glass | |
| b. 1989 | Canadian | poet, novelist | Full-Metal Indigiqueer, Johnny Appleseed | [500] |
| 1931–2018 | Canadian | television/radio documentaries, memoirist | Words to Live By | [501] |
| 1819–1892 | American | poet | Leaves of Grass | |
| b. 1976 | Canadian | fiction | Bottle Rocket Hearts, Holding Still for As Long As Possible | |
| 1854–1900 | English-Irish | fiction, plays | The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest | |
| 1897–1975 | American | fiction, plays | Our Town | [502] |
| b. ? | English | fiction | All the White Spaces | [503] |
| b. 1946 | American | children's literature | Daddy's Roommate | [504] |
| 1929–2008 | American | poet | Jubilant Thicket: New and Selected Poems | |
| 1911–1983 | American | playwright | A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | |
| b. 1991 | American | filmmaker, actress, screenwriter | | [505] |
| b. 1974 | Brazilian | journalist, politician | Aflitos | [506] |
| 1913–1991 | English | author | Hemlock and After | |
| 1950–1992 | Canadian | journalist, novelist | Labour of Love | [507] |
| b. 1945 | English | novelist | The Story of Tracy Beaker, Double Act, Hetty Feather | [508] |
| b. 1957 | Canadian | actor and playwright | My Own Private Oshawa | [509] |
| b. 1973 | American | fiction | What They Always Tell Us | [510] |
| b. ? | Canadian | novelist | Small Beauty | [511] |
| 1717–1768 | German | historian, archaeologist | Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (The History of Art in Antiquity | |
| 1920–2010 | American | novelist and memoirist | The Dog Star | |
| 1888–1944 | German | fiction | Yesterday and Today | |
| b. 1959 | English | fiction | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | |
| 1935–2003 | French | philosopher | Le Corps Lesbien | |
| b. 1968 | Canadian | poet | monkeypuzzle | |
| b. ? | Canadian | poet, short stories, children's literature | Maggie's Chopsticks | [512] |
| b. ? | Canadian | non-fiction | Meet Grindr | [513] |
| b. 1969 | Canadian | novelist | Spelling Mississippi | [514] |
| 1882–1941 | English | novelist | | | |