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. Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction... Lesbian describes a homosexual woman. ... In modern society, gay is a word which can be used as either a noun or adjective. ... In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ... Transgender is generally used as an overarching term for a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies along the gender continuum that are opposite to or in divergence from the gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned for life at birth. ... // Plot in literature, theater, movies According to Aristotles Poetics, a plot in literature is the arrangement of incidents that (ideally) each follow plausibly from the other. ...

Late 19th Century

• Aestheticism
• Charles Baudelaire
• Emily Dickinson
• Théophile Gautier
• Henry James
• Walter Pater
• Marcel Proust
• Arthur Rimbaud
• Algernon Swinburne
• Walt Whitman
• Oscar Wilde

The Aesthetic movement is a loosely defined movement in art and literature in later nineteenth century Britain. ... Charles Baudelaire, photograph taken by Nadar. ... A young Emily Dickinson, sometime around 1846-1847, for a long time the only known photograph of her. ... Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. ... For other uses of this name, see Henry James (disambiguation). ... Walter Horatio Pater (August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894) was an English essayist and critic. ... Marcel-Valentin-Louis-Eugène-Georges Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (in French À la recherche du temps perdu, also translated previously as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work... Arthur Rimbaud at seventeen Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville. ... Algernon Swinburne, Portrait by Rossetti Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. ... Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (born Walter Whitman) (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist born on Long Island, New York. ... Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. ...

20th Century

Pre-Stonewall

• E.M. Forster
• Jean Cocteau
• D.H. Lawrence
• William Carlos Williams
• Christopher Isherwood
• W.H. Auden
• W. Somerset Maugham
• Jean Genet
• Frank O'Hara
• 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

Edward Morgan Forster (January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970) was an English novelist. ... Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. ... D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, certainly one of the most controversial, English writers of the 20th century, who wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. ... William Carlos Williams Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with Modernism and Imagism. ... Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Christopher Isherwood (prior to 1946 Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood) (August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986), Anglo-American novelist, was born in the ancestral seat of his family, Wybersley Hall, High Lane, in the north west of England. ... Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Wystan Hugh Auden (February 21, 1907–September 29, 1973) was an English poet. ... W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 - April 15, 1986), was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. ... Francis Russell OHara (June 27, 1926–July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New York School of poetry. ... William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic and spoken word performer. ... Allen Ginsberg in later life Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. ... James Baldwin, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, known for his novel Go Tell it on the Mountain. ... Radclyffe Hall (August 12, 1880 - October 7, 1943) (born Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) was a British lesbian, author of The Well of Loneliness. ... The Well of Loneliness is a novel by Radclyffe Hall. ... Noël Coward Sir Noel Peirce Coward (spelling his forename Noël with the diaeresis was an affectation of later life, and Peirce is the correct spelling) (December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973) was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. ... Avery Hopwood (1882 - 1928) was an American playwright who wrote farces such as Getting Gerties Garter (1927). ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... Gertrude Stein, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1935 Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874, in Pittsburgh - July 27, 1946) was an American writer, poet, feminist, playwright and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France. ... Alice B. Toklas, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Alice B. Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) was the lover of writer Gertrude Stein. ... MAE-West is a major Internet peering point located in San Jose, California. ... Colette was the pen name of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (January 28, 1873 – August 3, 1954). ... Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwriters in the twentieth century. ... Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... Magnus Hirschfeld Magnus Hirschfeld (Kolberg, May 14, 1868 - Nice, May 14, 1935) was a prominent German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate. ... Langston Hughes, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936 Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist. ... Reinaldo Arenas (born July 16, 1943 in Holguín, Cuba, died December 7, 1990 in New York) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who spent most of his life fighting the Fidel Castro regime through his art. ... Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was a British author who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ...

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
• Joe Orton
• Randy Shilts
• Larry Kramer
• Alice Walker

Andrew Tobias (born April 20, 1947) is an American journalist, author and columnist, whose main body of work is on investment, but who has also written on politics, insurance and other topics. ... Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is a prolific American writer and social activist, notable for novels, poetry, and screenwriting. ... Rubyfruit Jungle is the first novel (1973) by Rita Mae Brown, remarkable for its explicit lesbianism. ... Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. ... Gore Vidal, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925), known simply as Gore Vidal, is a well-known American writer of novels, plays and essays, and has been a public figure for over fifty years. ... Terrence McNally is an openly gay American playwright. ... Tony Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an award-winning American playwright most famous for his play Angels in America. ... Armistead Maupin (born May 13, 1944 in Washington D.C.) is an American novelist whose most noted work to date is his six-book series collectively titled Tales of the City, the first portions of which were initially published as a newspaper serial starting in 1974 in a Marin County... Paula Vogel (16 November 1951-) is an American playwright. ... Christopher Rice (born May 11, 1978 in Berkeley, California) an American author. ... Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is a novelist, short-story writer and critic. ... Joe Orton (born John Kingsley Orton, January 1, 1933, Leicester, England - d. ... Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951 – February 17, 1994) was a gay American journalist and author. ... Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935), American dramatist, author and gay rights activist, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and was educated at Yale University (class of 1957). ... Alice Walker Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author and feminist whose most famous novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. ...

See also

• Singapore gay literature

// Introduction This article is a survey of LGBT-related writing in Singapore. ...

External links

• Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture on Gay Literature