# List of LGBTQ writers

This list of LGBTQ writers includes writers who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer or otherwise non-heterosexual, non-heteroromantic or non-cisgender who have written about LGBTQ themes, elements or about LGBTQ issues (such as Jonny Frank). Works of these authors are part of LGBT literature.
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.
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## A

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Caio Fernando Abreu | 1948–1996 | Brazilian | short stories, plays | Morangos Mofados, dragões não conhecem o paraíso |
| Barry D. Adam | b. 1952 | Canadian | scholar | The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement, The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics |
| Evan Adams | b. 1966 | Canadian | playwright | Dreams of Sheep, Snapshots, Dirty Dog River and Janice's Christmas |
| Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler | b. ? | Canadian | horror | Wrist, Ghost Lake |
| Etel Adnan | 1925–2021 | Lebanese-American | poet | Sea and Fog |
| Will Aitken | b. ? | American-Canadian | novelist, film critic | Terre Haute, Realia |
| Magaly Alabau | b. 1945 | Cuban American | poetry | Electra y Clitemnestra. Poema |
| Francisco X. Alarcón | 1954–2016 | Chicano | poetry | From the Belly Button of the Moon: And Other Summer Poems, Poems to Dream Together = Poemas para soñar juntos |
| Edward Albee | 1928–2016 | American | playwright | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Becky Albertalli | 1982 | American | writer of fiction | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, What If It's Us |
| Jonathan Alexander | b. 1967 | American | creative nonfiction | Dear Queer Self |
| Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali | b. 1985 | Canadian | memoirist | Angry Queer Somali Boy |
| Sandra Alland | b. 1973 | Canadian | poetry, fiction | The Mathematics of Love |
| Kimball Allen | b. 1982 | American | playwright, performer, gay activist | Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon Be Happy Be Mormon |
| Paula Gunn Allen | 1939–2008 | Native American | poet, literary critic | As Long as the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native Americans |
| Dorothy Allison | b. 1949 | American | novelist | Bastard Out of Carolina |
| Kye Allums | b. 1989 | American | poet | Who Am I? |
| Anne-Marie Alonzo | 1951–2005 | Canadian | poetry, fiction, drama | Bleus de mine |
| Lisa Alther | 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 |
| Rebecca Alpert | b. 1950 | American | professor of Jewish American religious history | Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation |
| Hilton Als | b. 1960 | American | writer, theatre critic | White Girls |
| Noel Alumit | b. 1968 | Filipino-American | playwright, novelist | Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing, Letters to Montgomery Clift |
| Hans Christian Andersen | 1805–1875 | Danish | fantasy, novelist, poet, playwright | The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen |
| Gordon Stewart Anderson | 1958–1991 | Canadian | novelist | The Toronto You Are Leaving |
| Debra Anderson | b. ? | Canadian | novelist, playwright | Code White |
| Patrick Anderson | 1915–1979 | English/Canadian | poet | Return to Canada |
| Albalucía Angel | b. 1939 | Colombian | folksinger and novelist | Girasoles en Invierno |
| Vincent Anioke | b. ? | Nigerian-Canadian | novelist, short stories | Whirlwind of Metamorphosis, Perfect Little Angels |
| Núria Añó | b. 1973 | Spanish | novelist | Lowering Clouds |
| Trey Anthony | b. 1983 | Canadian | playwright | Da Kink in My Hair |
| Salvatore Antonio | b. 1976 | Canadian | playwright | In Gabriel's Kitchen |
| Gloria Anzaldúa | 1942–2004 | Chicana | scholar of Chicana cultural theory | Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza |
| Bert Archer | b. 1968 | Canadian | journalist, critic | The End of Gay (and the death of heterosexuality) |
| Reinaldo Arenas | 1943–1990 | Cuban | poet, novelist and playwright | Before Night Falls |
| Rafael Arévalo Martínez | 1884–1975 | Guatemalan | novelist, short-story writer, poet | Las rosas de Engaddi |
| Lawrence Aronovitch | b. 1974 | Canadian | playwright | The Lavender Railroad, Galatea |
| Rane Arroyo | 1954–2010 | Puerto Rican | poetry | Pale Ramón |
| Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro | b. 1970 | Puerto Rican | novel, short story, essay | TRANScaribeñx, Las Negras |
| John Ashbery | 1927–2017 | American | poetry | Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
| Rob Astbury | 1948-2017 | Australian | sports | |
| Damien Atkins | b. 1975 | Canadian | playwright | Real Live Girl, Lucy, The Gay Heritage Project |
| W. H. Auden | 1907–1973 | English | poetry | "Funeral Blues" (poem) |
| Emily Austin | b. ? | Canadian | novelist, poet | Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space, Gay Girl Prayers |
| Ellis Avery | 1972–2019 | American | novelist | The Teahouse Fire, The Last Nude |
| Makram Ayache | b. ? | Lebanese/Canadian | playwright | Harun, The Green Line, The Hooves Belonged to the Deer |
| Manuel Azaña | 1880–1940 | Spanish | intellectual and politician | La velada en Benicarló |

## B

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Cheryl B | 1972–2011 | American | poet, autobiographer | My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B |
| Mette Bach | b. ? | Canadian | author, teacher, screenwriter, and director | Off the Highway |
| Sir Francis Bacon | 1561–1626 | English | essayist, novelist | The Advancement and Proficience of Learning Divine and Human (1605) |
| Oliver Baez Bendorf | b. 1987 | American | poet, writer | Advantages of Being Evergreen |
| Bruce Bagemihl | b. ? | Canadian | scientist | Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity |
| Bilal Baig | b. 1995 | Canadian | playwright, actor | Acha Bacha |
| James Robert Baker | 1946–1997 | American | novelist | Boy Wonder, Tim and Pete |
| John Roman Baker | b. 1944 | English | poet, playwright, novelist | Crying Celibate Tears |
| James Baldwin | 1924–1987 | American | poet, playwright, novelist | Giovanni's Room |
| Honoré de Balzac | 1799–1850 | French | novelist | La Comédie humaine |
| Victor J. Banis | 1937–2019 | American | novelist | The Man from C.A.M.P. |
| Keith Banner | b. ? | American | novelist, short stories | The Life I Lead, Next to Nothing |
| Kaushalya Bannerji | b. ? | Canadian | poet | A New Remembrance: Poems |
| Ann Bannon | b. 1932 | American | novelist | Beebo Brinker |
| Porfirio Barba Jacob | 1883–1942 | Columbian | poet | "Canción de la vida profunda" (poem) |
| Djuna Barnes | 1892–1982 | American | novelist | Ladies Almanack, Nightwood |
| Allen Barnett | 1955–1991 | American | short story writer | The Body and Its Dangers |
| Natalie Clifford Barney | 1876–1972 | American | poet, memoirist | Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes |
| Richard Barnfield | 1574–1627 | English | poet | The Passionate Pilgrim |
| Damian Barr | b. 1976 | British | writer, columnist, playwright | Maggie & Me |
| Joelle Barron | | Canadian | poet | Ritual Lights |
| Roland Barthes | 1915–1980 | French | semiotician | What Is Literature? |
| John Barton | b. 1957 | Canadian | poet | West of Darkness: Emily Carr, self-portrait (2nd ed.) |
| Jean Basile | 1932–1992 | Canadian | novelist, essayist | La Jument des mongols, Le Grand Khan, Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk |
| Jaime Bayly | b. 1965 | Peruvian | journalist, novelist | No se lo Digas a Nadie |
| Neil Bartlett | 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 |
| M.J. Bassett | b. 1953 | English | writer, director, producer | Strike Back (TV series) |
| Sylvia Beach | 1887–1962 | American | editor, memoirist | Founder of Shakespeare and Company |
| Thomas Beatie | b. 1976 | American | Author | Authored Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy |
| William Beckford | 1760–1844 | English | novelist, travel writer | Vathek |
| Aphra Behn | c. 1640–1689 | English | dramatist, poet and novelist | Oroonoko |
| Billy-Ray Belcourt | b. ? | Canadian | poet | This Wound Is a World |
| Ouissem Belgacem | b. 1988 | French | football player, writer | Adieu ma honte |
| Gwen Benaway | b. 1987 | Canadian | poet | Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage |
| Bruce Benderson | b. 1946 | American | novelist, essayist | Autobiographie érotique |
| E. F. Benson | 1867–1940 | English | novelist | Dodo |
| Jeremy Bentham | 1748–1832 | English | philosopher | An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation |
| S. Bear Bergman | b. 1974 | American-Canadian | author, poet, playwright, and theater artist | Butch Is A Noun |
| Leonard Bernstein | 1918–1990 | American | composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist | West Side Story |
| Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | b. ? | American | novelist | The End of San Francisco |
| Drew Barrymore | b. 1975 | American | Autobiographer | Little Girl Lost |
| Sandra Barneda | b. 1975 | Spanish | journalist, writer, actress | Antena 3 Noticias |
| Tess Berry-Hart | b. 1974 | British | playwright, novelist and activist | Sochi 2014 |
| José Bianco | 1909–1986 | Argentine | essayist, novelist and editor | Various works published in the magazine Sur |
| Anthony Bidulka | b. 1962 | Canadian | novelist | Flight of Aquavit |
| Aristide von Bienefeldt | 1959–2016 | Dutch | novelist | Bekentenissen van een Stamhouder ("Confessions of a Son and Heir") |
| Imogen Binnie | b. ? | American | novelist | Nevada |
| Brandi Bird | b. ? | Canadian | poet | The All + Flesh |
| Elizabeth Bishop | 1911–1979 | American | poet, short story writer | North and South, Questions of Travel |
| Bill Bissett | b. 1939 | Canadian | poet | Awake in the Red Dessert (spoken word album) |
| Persimmon Blackbridge | b. 1951 | Canadian | novelist, non-fiction writer | Sunnybrook, Prozac Highway |
| Marie-Claire Blais | 1939–2021 | Canadian | novelist, playwright | A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, Mad Shadows, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction |
| Cassandra Blanchard | b. ? | Canadian | poet | Fresh Pack of Smokes |
| Robin Blaser | 1925–2009 | Canadian | poet | The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (editor) |
| Ali Blythe | b. ? | Canadian | poet | Twoism |
| Charlie Bondhus | b. 1981 | American | poet | All the Heat We Could Carry |
| Yolanda Bonnell | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Bug |
| Gregory Bonsignore | b. 1983 | American | playwright, librettist, lyricist, TV writer | Atomic, Squad 85 |
| Walter Borden | b. 1942 | Canadian | playwright | Tightrope Time: Ain't Nuthin' More Than Some Itty Bitty Madness Between Twilight and Dawn |
| Barrie Jean Borich | b. ? | American | memoirist | My Lesbian Husband, Body Geographic |
| Michel Marc Bouchard | b. 1958 | Canadian | playwright | Lilies, The Orphan Muses |
| Eddy Boudel Tan | b. ? | Canadian | novelist | After Elias, The Rebellious Tide |
| Elizabeth Bowen | 1899–1973 | Irish | novelist | Eva Trout |
| Jane Bowles | 1917–1973 | American | novelist, playwright | Two Serious Ladies |
| Paul Bowles | 1910–1999 | American | novelist, poet, translator | The Sheltering Sky |
| John Boyne | b. 1971 | Irish | novelist | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas |
| Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite | 1963–2008 | Canadian | novelist | Wigger |
| Christopher Bram | b. 1952 | American | novelist | Father of Frankenstein |
| Gilberto Braga | 1945–2021 | Brazilian | screenwriter | Dancin' Days, Celebridade |
| Dionne Brand | b. 1953 | Canadian | novelist, poet | Land to Light On, What We All Long For, Sans Souci |
| Ken Brand | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Benchmarks, The Bathhouse Suite, Burying Michael |
| Beth Brant | 1941–2015 | Canadian | poet | A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Women |
| Perry Brass | 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″ |
| André Brassard | b. 1946 | Canadian | stage director, filmmaker and actor | Once Upon a Time in the East, Le soleil se lève en retard (both films) |
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898–1956 | German | playwright | The Threepenny Opera |
| Phoebe Bridgers | b. 1994 | American | singer, songwriter, producer | Punisher, Stranger in the Alps |
| Dave Brindle | b. ? | Canadian | journalist | |
| Poppy Z. Brite | b. 1967 | American | novelist | Liquor, Prime, and Soul Kitchen |
| Lynn Breedlove | b. 1958 | American | novelist | Godspeed |
| Michael Bronski | b. 1949 | American | historian | A Queer History of the United States |
| Carellin Brooks | b. ? | Canadian | novelist, non-fiction | One Hundred Days of Rain, Wreck Beach |
| Brigid Brophy | 1929–1995 | English | novelist | Hackenfeller's Ape |
| Nicole Brossard | b. 1943 | French Canadian | poet, novelist | L'Echo bouge beau |
| Olga Broumas | b. 1949 | Greek-American | poet | Beginning with O |
| Rebecca Brown | b. 1956 | American | novelist | The Gifts of the Body |
| Rita Mae Brown | b. 1944 | American | novelist | Rubyfruit Jungle |
| Ryan Buell | b. 1982 | American | memoirist | Paranormal State: My Journey into the Unknown |
| Michael C. Burgess | b. 1956 | British | poet | Blue Rhapsody, The Victims |
| Nathan Burgoine | b. ? | Canadian | novelist, short stories | Light |
| Ronnie Burkett | b. 1957 | Canadian | playwright | Tinka's New Dress |
| John Horne Burns | 1916–1953 | American | novelist | The Gallery |
| William S. Burroughs | 1914–1997 | American | novelist | Naked Lunch, Queer |
| Aldo Busi | b. 1948 | Italian | novelist | Seminar on Youth |
| Alec Butler | b. 1959 | Canadian | playwright | Black Friday |
| Lady Eleanor Butler | 1739–1829 | Anglo-Irish | diarist | Ladies of Llangollen : letters and journals of Lady Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831) |
| Judith Butler | b. 1956 | American | philosophy, ethics, queer theory | Gender Trouble (1990) |
| Samuel Butler | 1835–1902 | English | novelist | Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh |
| Lord Byron | 1788–1824 | English | poet | Don Juan (poem) |

## C

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Patrick Califia | b. 1954 | American | non-fiction | Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex |
| Anne Cameron | b. 1938 | Canadian | novelist, poet, screenwriter | Dreamspeaker (screenplay) |
| Elspeth Cameron | b. 1943 | Canadian | biographies and memoirs, poetry | No Previous Experience |
| Rafael Campo | b. 1964 | American | poet | "Silence= Death" |
| Truman Capote | 1924–1984 | American | novelist, non-fiction | Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood |
| Pat Capponi | 1949–2020 | Canadian | mystery novelist, non-fiction | Bound by Duty: Walking the Beat with Canada's Cops |
| Tom Cardamone | b. ? | American | speculative fiction | Green Thumb |
| Nancy Cárdenas | 1934–1994 | Mexican | actor, activist, filmmaker | México de mis amores (documentary) |
| Dale Carpenter | b. 1966 | American | non-fiction | Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas |
| Edward Carpenter | 1844–1929 | English | poet, academic | Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure |
| Michael Carroll | b. ? | American | short stories | Little Reef |
| Julián del Casal | 1863–1893 | Cuban | poet | Mi museo ideal (poetry collection) |
| Sue-Ellen Case | b. 1942 | American | playwright, critic | Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Genders |
| Joseph Cassara | b. 1989 | American | novelist | The House of Impossible Beauties |
| Stacie Cassarino | b. 1975 | American | poet | Zero at the Bone |
| Cyrus Cassells | b.1957 | American | poet, professor | More Than Peace and Cypresses |
| Clint Catalyst | b. 1971 | American | writer, actor | Cottonmouth Kisses |
| Willa Cather | 1873–1947 | American | novelist, writer of stort stories and essays | My Ántonia |
| Catullus | ca 85–ca 55 B.C. | Roman | poet | Catullus et in eum commentarius |
| Constantine P. Cavafy | 1863–1933 | Greek | poet | "Ithaca" (poem) |
| Kate Cayley | b. ? | Canadian | poet, dramatist, short stories | How You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova |
| Luis Cernuda | 1902–1963 | Spanish | poet | La realidad y el deseo |
| Éric Chacour | b. ? | Canadian | novelist | What I Know About You |
| Robert Chafe | b. 1971 | Canadian | playwright | Afterimage, Butler's Marsh, Tempting Providence (plays) |
| Paul Chamberland | b. 1939 | Canadian | poet, essayist | L'Afficheur hurle, En nouvelle barbarie |
| Jane Chambers | 1937–1983 | American | playwright | Tales of the Revolution and Other American Fables |
| Jessie Chandler | b. 1968 | American | writer of mysteries and humorous caper fiction | Shay O'Hanlon Caper Series |
| Mathieu Chantelois | b. 1973 | Canadian | television personality | Lorenzo (1963) |
| Graham Chapman | 1941–1989 | British | Screenwriter | A liar's Autobiography |
| George Chauncey | b. 1953 | American | historian | Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 |
| Normand Chaurette | 1954–2022 | Canadian | playwright | Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus par les géologues, Je vous écris du Caire |
| Alexander Chee | b. 1967 | American | novelist, poet, journalist | Edinburgh, The Queen of Night |
| John Cheever | 1912–1982 | American | novelist, short stories | The Enormous Radio, The Five-Forty-Eight, The Wapshot Chronicle, The Swimmer |
| Gabriel Cholette | b. ? | Canadian | memorist | Scenes from the Underground |
| Lisa Cholodenko | b. 1964 | American | screenwriter | High Art, Laurel Canyon, The Kids Are All Right |
| Wayson Choy | 1939–2019 | Canadian | novelist, memoirist | The Jade Peony, Paper Shadows, All That Matters |
| Jillian Christmas | b. ? | Canadian | poet | The Gospel of Breaking |
| Nino Cipri | b. 1985 | American | writer | Defekt |
| Hélène Cixous | b. 1937 | French | philosopher, writer | "The Laugh of the Medusa" (essay) |
| Eli Claire | b. 1963 | American | writer | Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure |
| C. L. Clark | b. ? | American | novelist | The Unbroken |
| John Cleland | 1710–1789 | English | novelist | Fanny Hill |
| Kate Clinton | b. 1947 | American | comedian | Don't Get Me Started, What the L, and I Told You So |
| Jean Cocteau | 1889–1963 | French | poet, novelist, dramatist | La Voix humaine |
| Christopher Coe | 1953–1994 | American | novelist | I Look Divine, Such Times |
| Henri Cole | b. 1956 | American | poet | Touch (poetry collection) |
| Susan G. Cole | b. 1952 | Canadian | writer | Pornography and the sex crisis |
| Colette | 1873–1954 | French | novelist | Claudine series |
| Joey Comeau | b. 1980 | Canadian | writer | A Softer World, Overqualified, Lockpick Pornography |
| Ivy Compton-Burnett | 1884–1969 | English | writer | Manservant and Maidservant |
| Carmen Conde Abellán | 1907–1996 | Spanish | academic, poet, writer | Poesía ante el tiempo y la inmortalidad |
| Timothy Conigrave | 1959–1994 | Australian | actor, writer | Holding the Man |
| Garrard Conley | b. 1984/1985 | American | memoirist | Boy Erased: A Memoir |
| Bernard Cooper | b. 1951 | American | writer | The Bill From My Father: A Memoir |
| Dennis Cooper | b. 1953 | American | writer | George Miles Cycle |
| Copi (pseudonym of Raúl Damonte) | 1941–1987 | Argentine/French | writer, actor, director, cartoonist | La Femme assise |
| Rick Copp | 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 |
| Steven Corbin | 1953–1995 | American | novelist | Fragments That Remain |
| Amanda Cordner | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses |
| Jeanne Cordova | 1948–2016 | American | activist, journalist | When We Were Outlaws: a Memoir of Love and Revolution |
| Marie Corelli | 1855–1924 | Scottish | writer | A Romance of Two Worlds |
| Carl Corley | 1919–2016 | American | writer | A Chosen World |
| Alfred Corn | b. 1943 | American | poet, novelist, critic | |
| Brenda Cossman | b. 1960 | Canadian | academic | Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging |
| Douglas Coupland | b. 1961 | Canadian | novelist, short story writer, playwright | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Microserfs, JPod |
| Laerte Coutinho | b. 1951 | Brazilian | cartoonist, screenwriter | Chiclete com Banana, Piratas do Tietê |
| Dani Couture | b. 1978 | Canadian | writer | Sweet (poetry collection) |
| Noël Coward | 1899–1973 | English | playwright | Private Lives |
| Daniel Allen Cox | b. 1976 | Canadian | writer | Shuck, Krakow Melt |
| Ivan Coyote | b. 1969 | Canadian | spoken word performer, writer | Tomboy Survival Guide |
| Caleb Crain | b. 1967 | American | novelist, critic | Necessary Errors, American Sympathy |
| Hart Crane | 1899–1933 | American | poet | The Bridge |
| Mark Crawford | | Canadian | playwright | The Birds and the Bees, Bed and Breakfast |
| Quentin Crisp | 1908–1999 | British | books, stage, screen, TV | "The Naked Civil Servant" |
| Eva Crocker | b. ? | Canadian | short stories | Barrelling Forward |
| Mart Crowley | 1935–2020 | American | playwright | The Boys in the Band |
| Countee Cullen | 1903–1946 | American | writer | Color (poetry collection) |
| Nancy Jo Cullen | b. ? | Canadian | poet, short stories | Science Fiction Saint, Pearl, Untitled Child, and Canary (a short story collection) |
| Tom Culligan | b. 1945 | Canadian | businessman | Teacups & Sticky Buns |
| Michael Cunningham | b. 1952 | American | novelist | The Hours |
| Peter Cureton | 1965–1994 | Canadian | playwright | Passages |
| Max Currie | b. ? | New Zealand | screenwriter, film director | Everything We Loved, Rūrangi |
| Jameson Currier | b. 1955 | American | novelist, short stories | Dancing on the Moon, Where the Rainbow Ends, The Wolf at the Door |
| Jen Currin | b. ? | American/Canadian | poet | The Inquisition Yours |

## D

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Stormy Daniels | b. 1979 | American | autobiographer | Full Disclosure |
| Jean-Paul Daoust | b. 1946 | Canadian | poet, novelist, short stories | Les Cendres bleues, Black Diva |
| Jim David | b. 1954 | American | comedian, actor, playwright | South Pathetic |
| Christopher Davis | b. 1953 | American | novelist, short stories | Valley of the Shadow, Philadelphia |
| Jeff Davis | b. 1975 | American | screenwriter | Teen Wolf |
| Tanya Davis | b. ? | Canadian | poet | Make a List |
| Amber Dawn | b. ? | Canadian | novelist | Sub Rosa |
| Nicholas Dawson | b. 1982 | Chilean-Canadian | novelist, poet, non-fiction | Désormais, ma demeure |
| Samuel R. Delany | b. 1942 | American | novelist, literary critic | Hogg, Dhalgren, The Motion of Light in Water, Dark Reflections |
| A. M. Dellamonica | b. 1968 | Canadian | novelist | Indigo Springs |
| David Demchuk | b. ? | Canadian | novelist, playwright | The Bone Mother, Touch, If Betty Should Rise |
| Nicole Dennis-Benn | b. 1982 | Jamaican | novelist | Here Comes the Sun, Patsy |
| Joel Derfner | b. 1973 | American | memoirist, author, essayist, humorist | Gay Haiku, Swish, Lawfully Wedded Husband |
| Augusto d'Halmar | 1882–1950 | Chilean | novelist | Palabras para canciones |
| Andy Dick | b. 1965 | American | comedian, actor, musician, and television and film producer | The Ben Stiller Show, NewsRadio, The Andy Dick Show |
| Emily Dickinson | 1830–1886 | American | poet | The Poems of Emily Dickinson |
| David Di Giovanni | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Body So Fluorescent, Wring the Roses |
| Joe DiPietro | b. 1961 | American | playwright | Memphis, Fucking Men |
| Christopher DiRaddo | b. 1974 | Canadian | novelist | The Geography of Pluto, The Family Way |
| Thomas Disch | 1940–2008 | American | novelist, poet | On Wings of Song |
| Dorothy Dittrich | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | When We Were Singing, The Dissociates, The Piano Teacher |
| Farzana Doctor | b. ? | Canadian | novelist | Six Metres of Pavement |
| Dodie | b. 1995 | English | novelist, short stories | Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons, Untitled Short Story Collection |
| John Donne | 1572–1631 | English | poet | Notable for his erotic poetry and elegies |
| Nisa Donnelly | 1950–2021 | American | novelist | The Bar Stories: A Novel After All, The Love Songs of Phoenix Bay |
| Emma Donoghue | b. 1969 | Irish/Canadian | novelist, short story writer | Room |
| José Donoso | 1925–1996 | Chilean | novelist | Hell Has No Limits |
| John Donovan | 1928–1992 | American | young adult novelist, dramatist | I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip |
| H.D., born Hilda Doolittle | 1886–1961 | American | poet | Helen in Egypt |
| Fernand Dorais | 1928–2003 | Canadian | academic literature, erotica | Entre Montréal ...et Sudbury, Témoins d'errances en Ontario français, Hermaphrodismes |
| Mark Doty | b. 1953 | American | poet and memoirist | Heaven's Coast, Fire to Fire |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | 1870–1945 | English | poet | Oscar Wilde and Myself |
| Norman Douglas | 1868–1952 | Scottish-Austrian | novelist | Old Calabria |
| Michael Downing | 1958–2021 | American | novelist, non-fiction | Perfect Agreement, Breakfast with Scot |
| Brian Drader | b. 1960 | Canadian | playwright | Prok, The Fruit Machine, The Norbals |
| Neal Drinnan | b. 1964 | Australian | novelist | Izzy and Eve |
| Daphne du Maurier | 1907–1989 | English | author, playwright | Rebecca |
| Peter Dubé | b. ? | Canadian | novelist, short story writer | Editor of several anthologies of gay male literature |
| René-Daniel Dubois | b. 1955 | Canadian | playwright | Being at Home with Claude |
| Carol Ann Duffy | b. 1955 | Scottish | poet, playwright | Standing Female Nude |
| Maureen Duffy | b. 1933 | English | novelist, poet, playwright | That's How It Was |
| Stella Duffy | b. 1963 | English/New Zealand | novelist | State of Happiness |
| Robert Duncan | 1919–1988 | American | poet | The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, and Bending the Bow |
| Warren Dunford | b. 1963 | Canadian | mystery | Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, Making a Killing, The Scene Stealer |
| Paul Dunn | | Canadian | playwright | The Gay Heritage Project, Outside |
| Kristyn Dunnion | b. 1969 | Canadian | novelist, short story writer | The Dirt Chronicles |
| Larry Duplechan | b. 1956 | American | novelist | Blackbird, Got 'til It's Gone |
| Elana Dykewomon | 1949–2022 | American | novelist, poet | Beyond the Pale |

## E

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Jim Egan | 1921–2000 | Canadian | activist, journalist | Challenging the Conspiracy of Silence |
| Bret Easton Ellis | b. 1964 | American | novelist | American Psycho, Glamorama |
| Guy Édoin | b. ? | Canadian | screenwriter | Wetlands (Marécages) |
| Chike Frankie Edozien | b. 1970 | Nigerian-American | journalist, memoirist | Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man |
| Jorge Eduardo Eielson | 1924–2006 | Peruvian | poetry | Habitación en Roma, El cuerpo de Giulia-No and Primera muerte de María (novels) |
| Lars Eighner | 1948–2021 | American | non-fiction, erotica | Travels with Lizbeth |
| Francesca Ekwuyasi | b. ? | Nigerian-Canadian | novelist | Butter Honey Pig Bread |
| Deborah Ellis | b. 1960 | Canadian | non-fiction, young adult literature | The Breadwinner, The Heaven Shop |
| Jason Elis | b. 1971 | Australian | radio host | The Jason Elis Show |
| Sarah Ellis | b. 1952 | Canadian | children's | Odd Man Out, Pick Up Sticks |
| Sarah Kate Ellis | b. 1971 | American | children's, memoirist | Times Two: Two Women in Love and the Happy Family They Made, All Moms |
| Gloria Escomel | b. 1941 | Uruguayan-Canadian | novelist, dramatist, journalist | Pièges, Fruit de la passion |
| Michael Estok | 1939–1989 | Canadian | poet | A Plague Year Journal |

## F

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Evan Fallenberg | b. 1961 | American-Israeli | novelist | Light Fell, When We Danced on Water |
| Sara Farizan | b. ? | American | young adult literature | If You Could Be Mine |
| Logan February | b. 1999 | Nigerian | Poetry | In the Nude, Mannequin in the Nude |
| David B. Feinberg | 1956–1994 | American | journalist | Queer and Loathing |
| Leslie Feinberg | 1949–2014 | American | novelist, non-fiction | Stone Butch Blues |
| Joshua M. Ferguson | b. ? | Canadian | memoirist | Me, Myself, They |
| Anderson Ferrell | b. ? | American | novelist | Where She Was, Home for the Day, Have You Heard |
| Robert Ferro | 1941–1988 | American | novelist | The Family of Max Desir |
| Hubert Fichte | 1935–1986 | German | writer | Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit |
| Edward Field | b. 1924 | American | poetry | Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963-1992 |
| Harvey Fierstein | b. 1954 | American | playwright | Torch Song Trilogy |
| Connie Fife | 1961–2017 | Canadian | poetry | Beneath the Naked Sun, Poems for a New World |
| Timothy Findley | 1930–2002 | Canadian | novelist, playwright | The Wars, Headhunter, Elizabeth Rex |
| Lois Fine | b. ? | Canadian | dramatist | Freda and Jem's Best of the Week |
| Larry Fineberg | b. 1945 | Canadian | playwright | Eve, Human Remains, Failure of Nerve |
| Ronald Firbank | 1886–1926 | English | novelist | Valmouth, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli |
| Diane Flacks | b. 1955 | Canadian | playwright | Myth Me, By a Thread |
| Janet Flanner | 1892–1978 | American | journalist | Foreign correspondent in Paris, France |
| Lisa Foad | b. ? | Canadian | short stories | The Night Is a Mouth |
| Waawaate Fobister | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Agokwe |
| Michael Thomas Ford | b. 1968 | American | novelist, non-fiction | Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me, That's Mr. Faggot to You |
| E. M. Forster | 1879–1970 | English | novelist | Maurice, A Passage to India, A Room With A View, Howards End |
| Guy Mark Foster | b. ? | American | short stories | The Rest of Us |
| Marion Foster | 1924–1997 | Canadian | mysteries | The Monarchs Are Flying, Legal Tender |
| Michel Foucault | 1926–1984 | French | philosopher | The History of Sexuality |
| Brian Francis | b. 1971 | Canadian | novelist | Fruit |
| Judith Frank | b. ? | American | novelist, short stories | Crybaby Butch, All I Love and Know |
| Brad Fraser | b. 1959 | Canadian | playwright | Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Poor Super Man |
| Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman | 1852–1930 | American | novelist, short story writer, poet | A New England Nun |
| Alice French | 1850–1934 | American | writer | Expiation |
| Ladislav Fuks | 1923–1994 | Czech | novelist | The Cremator |
| Janine Fuller | b. 1958 | Canadian | non-fiction | Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada |
| Wes Funk | 1969–2015 | Canadian | novelist | Dead Rock Stars, Cherry Blossoms |

## G

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Patrick Gale | b. 1962 | British | novelist | Rough Music |
| Federico García Lorca | 1898–1936 | Spanish | poet and playwright | Poeta en Nueva York |
| Magali García Ramis | b. 1946 | Puerto Rican | novelist, essayist | Happy Days, Uncle Sergio |
| Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal | b. 1945 | Colombian | novelist, columnist | Dabeiba |
| Nancy Garden | 1938–2014 | American | novelist | Annie on My Mind |
| Ken Garnhum | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Pants on Fire |
| C. E. Gatchalian | b. 1974 | Canadian | playwright | Motifs & Repetitions |
| Daniel Gawthrop | b. 1963 | Canadian | journalist, biographer | Affirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter, The Rice Queen Diaries, The Trial of Pope Benedict |
| Roxane Gay | b. 1974 | American | novelist, essayist | Bad Feminist |
| Jean Genet | 1910–1986 | French | novelist, playwright, poet | Our Lady of the Flowers |
| Stefan George | 1868–1933 | German | poet | Main person of the literary and academic group known as the George-Kreis |
| Hyeong-do Gi | 1960–1989 | Korean | poet | Black Leaf in My Mouth |
| André Gide | 1869–1951 | French | novelist | The Immoralist |
| Sky Gilbert | b. 1952 | Canadian | playwright | Co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times |
| John Gilgun | 1935–2021 | American | novelist, poet, short stories | Music I Never Dreamed Of |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926–1997 | American | poet | Howl |
| M-E Girard | b. ? | Canadian | young adult literature | Girl Mans Up |
| John Glassco | 1909–1981 | Canadian | poet | Memoirs of Montparnasse |
| Connie Glynn | b. 1994 | British | young adult literature | The Rosewood Chronicles |
| Nikolai Gogol | 1809–1852 | Ukrainian | novelist, playwright | Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka |
| Michael Golding | b. 1958 | American | novelist, screenwriter | A Poet of the Invisible World, Silk |
| Andrea Goldsmith | b. 1950 | Australian | novelist | The Prosperous Thief |
| Agustín Gómez-Arcos | 1933–1998 | Spanish | novelist, playwright | L'Agneau carnivore, Ana non |
| Ibis Gómez-Vega | b. 1952 | Cuban | novelist, playwright | Send My Roots Rain |
| Krzysztof Gonciarz | b. 1985 | Polish | nonfiction writer | |
| Rigoberto González | 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 |
| Brad Gooch | b. 1952 | American | poet, essayist, biographer | Jailbait and Other Stories |
| Paul Goodman | 1911–1972 | American | poet | Growing Up Absurd, The Community of Scholars |
| Juan Goytisolo | 1931–2017 | Spanish | poet, essayist, novelist | Count Julian |
| Judy Grahn | b. 1940 | American | poet | Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling (poetry collection) |
| Camarin Grae | b. 1941 | American | science fiction | The Secret in the Bird, Slick, Stranded |
| R. W. Gray | b. ? | Canadian | short stories, novelist, poet | Crisp, Entropic |
| Thomas Gray | 1716–1771 | English | poet | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| Nick Green | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Body Politic |
| Harlan Greene | b. 1953 | American | novelist, historian | What the Dead Remember, The German Officer's Boy |
| Garth Greenwell | b. 1978 | American | novelist | What Belongs to You |
| Robert Joseph Greene | b. 1973 | Canadian | short story writer | The Gay Icon Classics of the World, This High School Has Closets |
| Sasha Grey | b. 1988 | American | author, songwriter | Entourage, The Juliette Society |
| Matthew Griffin | b. ? | American | novelist | Hide |
| Doris Grumbach | 1918–2022 | American | novelist, biographer, essayist | Chamber Music |
| Hervé Guibert | 1955–1991 | French | novelist | L'homme blessé (screenplay that he co-wrote) |
| Alain Guiraudie | b. 1964 | French | screenwriter, novelist | Stranger by the Lake, Now the Night Begins |
| Thom Gunn | 1929–2004 | English | poet | The Man with Night Sweats |

## H

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Samra Habib | | Canadian | memoirist | We Have Always Been Here |
| Saleem Haddad | b. 1983 | Kuwaiti-British | novelist | Guapa |
| Radclyffe Hall | 1880–1943 | English | novelist | The Well of Loneliness |
| Richard Hall | 1926–1992 | American | novelist, short stories, drama, criticism | Couplings |
| Aaron Hamburger | b. 1973 | American | novelist, short story writer | The View from Stalin's Head (short story collection), Faith for Beginners |
| Jane Eaton Hamilton | b. 1954 | Canadian | poet, short story writer, memoirist, novelist | Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes, Hunger, Body Rain, No More Hurt, Weekend |
| Dena Hankins | b. 1975 | American | novelist, short story writer | Blue Water Dreams |
| Bretten Hannam | b. ? | Canadian | screenwriter | North Mountain, Wildhood |
| Joseph Hansen | 1923–2004 | American | novelist, poet | Series of novels featuring private eye Dave Brandstetter |
| Robin Hardy | 1952–1995 | Canadian | novelist, journalist, founding member of Publishing Triangle | Freelance contributor to The Advocate, Village Voice and Penthouse |
| Bertha Harris | 1937–2005 | American | novelist | Lover |
| Michael Harris | b. 1980 | Canadian | non-fiction, young adult literature | The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection |
| Adam Haslett | b. 1970 | American | novelist, short story writer | You Are Not A Stranger Here, Imagine Me Gone |
| Trebor Healey | b. 1962 | American | novelist, poet | Through It Came Bright Colors |
| Sydney Hegele | b. ? | Canadian | short stories | The Pump |
| Scott Heim | b. 1966 | American | novelist | Mysterious Skin |
| Essex Hemphill | 1957–1995 | American | poet, activist | Co-founder of Nethula Journal of Contemporary Literature |
| Philip Hensher | b. 1965 | English | novelist, critic, journalist | The Mulberry Empire |
| John Herbert | 1926–2001 | Canadian | playwright | Fortune and Men's Eyes |
| Catherine Hernandez | b. ? | Canadian | playwright, novelist | Scarborough |
| Greg Herren | b. 1961 | American | novelist | Murder in the Rue Chartres |
| Patricia Highsmith | 1921–1995 | American | novelist | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| Scott Hightower | b. 1952 | American | poet | Part of the Bargain |
| Tomson Highway | b. 1951 | Canadian | novelist, playwright | The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Kiss of the Fur Queen |
| Thorn Kief Hillsbery | b. ? | American | novelist | What We Do Is Secret |
| Daryl Hine | 1936–2012 | Canadian | poet | The Carnal and the Crane |
| Hippothales | 4th Century B.C. | Athenian | poet | numerous love poems to Lysis |
| Guy Hocquenghem | 1946–1988 | French | theorist | Homosexual Desire, L'Amour en relief |
| Susan Holbrook | b. 1967 | Canadian | poet | Misled, Joy Is So Exhausting, Throaty Wipes |
| Andrew Holleran (pseudonym of Eric Garber) | b. 1943 | American | novelist, essayist | Dancer from the Dance |
| Alan Hollinghurst | b. 1954 | English | novelist | The Swimming Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty |
| Ike Holter | b. 1985 | American | playwright | Hit the Wall, Exit Strategy, The Wolf at the End of the Block |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | 1844–1889 | English | poet | The Habit of Perfection |
| Horace | 65-8 B.C. | Roman | poet | Odes |
| Leah Horlick | b. ? | Canadian | poet | Riot Lung, For Your Own Good |
| Silas House | b. 1971 | American | novelist, journalist | |
| Stephen Hough | b. 1961 | British | pianist, composer, writer | The Final Retreat |
| A. E. Housman | 1859–1936 | English | poet | A Shropshire Lad |
| Richard Howard | 1929–2022 | American | poet | Alone With America |
| James Howe | b. 1946 | American | children's writer | The Misfits series |
| Tanya Huff | b. 1957 | Canadian | novelist | Blood Books series |
| Langston Hughes | 1902–1967 | American | poet | The Big Sea |
| Jay Hulme | b. 1997 | British | poet | I Bet I Can Make You Laugh |
| Bo Huston | 1959–1993 | American | novelist, short stories | Dream Life, The Listener |
| Joris-Karl Huysmans | 1848–1907 | French | novelist | Against the Grain (À rebours, 1884) |
| Maureen Hynes | b. ? | Canadian | poet | Rough Skin |

## I

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| John Ibbitson | b. 1955 | Canadian | journalist, playwright, children's writer | 1812: Jeremy's War, The Landing, The Big Shift: The Seismic Change in Canadian Politics, Business, and Culture and What It Means for Our Future |
| Nnanna Ikpo | b. ? | Nigerian | novelist | Fimí Sílẹ̀ Forever |
| George K. Ilsley | b. 1958 | Canadian | short stories, novelist | Random Acts of Hatred, ManBug |
| William Inge | 1913–1973 | American | playwright | Come Back, Little Sheba, Picnic |
| Malcolm Ingram | b. 1968 | Canadian | screenwriter | Tail Lights Fade, Small Town Gay Bar, Continental |
| Juana Inés de la Cruz | 1648–1695 | Mexican | poet, playwright | The Dream |
| Christopher Isherwood | 1904–1986 | English | novelist, autobiographer | I Am a Camera, Down There on a Visit, A Single Man, Christopher and His Kind |
| Arturo Islas | 1938–1991 | American | writer | The Rain God |
| Harish Iyer | b. 1979 | Indian | journalist | Social media writer (blogs, Facebook and Twitter) |

## J

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Narelda Jacobs | b. 2000 | Australian | television journalist | 10 News First Perth |
| Tove Jansson | 1914–2001 | Finnish | novelist, painter, illustrator, comic strip author | Moomins series |
| Derek Jarman | 1942–1994 | English | author and filmmaker | At Your Own Risk |
| Alfred Jarry | 1873–1907 | French | writer | Ubu Roi |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | 1849–1909 | American | novelist, short story writer and poet | The Country of the Pointed Firs |
| Geraldine Jewsbury | 1812–1880 | British | novelist, London literary social figure | Zoe: the History of Two Lives |
| Craig Johnson | b. ? | American | screenwriter, film director | True Adolescents, The Skeleton Twins |
| Punkie Johnson | b. 1985 | American | comedian | Saturday Night Live, The Comedy Store |
| Scott Jones | b. ? | Canadian | playwright, screenwriter | Coin Slot, Freedom, I Forgive You |
| June Jordan | 1936–2002 | American | poet | Directed by Desire: Collected Poems |
| Amanda Junquera Butler | 1898–1986 | Spanish | chronicler, translator, storyteller | Personajes de la Inquisición [Characters of the Inquisition, by William Thomas Walsh], Un hueco en la luz |
| Claude Jutra | 1930–1986 | Canadian | screenwriter | Mon oncle Antoine, Kamouraska |

## K

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Karin Kallmaker | b. 1960 | American | romance, erotica, science fiction | Maybe Next Time |
| Patricia Karvelas | b. 1981 | Australian | radio presenter, journalist | RN Breakfast |
| Christopher Kelly | b. ? | American | novelist, journalist | A Push and a Shove |
| Fran Kelly | b. 1988 | Australian | radio presenter, journalist | Breakfast |
| Jonathan Kemp | b. 1967 | English | novelist | London Triptych |
| Randall Kenan | 1963–2020 | American | writer | Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, A Visitation of Spirits |
| Nina Kennedy | b. 1960 | American | writer, pianist, screenwriter | Practicing for Love: A Memoir |
| Maurice Kenny | 1929–2016 | American | poet | The Mama Poems |
| Piper Kerman | b. 1969 | American | writer, author, memoirist | Orange is the New Black |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922–1969 | American | novelist | On the Road, The Subterraneans |
| Kevin Killian | 1952–2019 | American | poet, novelist, playwright | Bedrooms Have Windows, Impossible Princess, Stone Marmalade |
| Willyce Kim | b. 1946 | American | poet, novelist | Eating Artichokes, Dead Heat |
| Gary Kinsman | b. 1955 | Canadian | sociologist | The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities |
| Heinrich von Kleist | 1777–1811 | Prussian | poet, dramatist, short story writer, and novelist | The Broken Jug, The Marquise of O, Michael Kohlhaas, Penthesilea, The Prince of Homburg |
| Todd Klinck | b. 1974 | Canadian | novelist, journalist, screenwriter | Tacones, Sugar |
| Tamai Kobayashi | b. 1966 | Canadian | novelist, short story writer | Prairie Ostrich |
| Wayne Koestenbaum | b. 1958 | American | poet and cultural critic | The Queen's Throat |
| Bernard-Marie Koltès | 1948–1989 | French | playwright | La Nuit juste avant les forêts, Dans la solitude des champs de coton |
| Bill Konigsberg | b. 1970 | American | sportswriter, young adult literature | Out of the Pocket, Openly Straight |
| Greg Kramer | 1961–2013 | British/Canadian | novelist, playwright | The Pursemonger of fugu, Hogtown Bonbons |
| Larry Kramer | 1935–2020 | American | novelist, journalist, playwright | Faggots, The Normal Heart |
| Ellen Kushner | b. 1955 | American | writer | Thomas the Rhymer |
| Tony Kushner | b. 1956 | American | playwright | Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes |
| Mikhail Kuzmin | 1872–1936 | Russian | writer | The Trout Breaks the Ice |
| Lydia Kwa | b. 1959 | Singaporean-Canadian | novelist | This Place Called Absence, The Walking Boy |

## L

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes | b. 1968 | Puerto Rican | poet, playwright, scholar | Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails |
| Kama La Mackerel | b. ? | Mauritian-Canadian | poet | ZOM-FAM |
| Richard Labonté | 1949–2022 | Canadian | literary critic, anthologist | Editor for works like Best Gay Erotica 2005 |
| Edward A. Lacey | 1938–1995 | Canadian | poet | The Delight of Hearts, or What You Will Not Find in Any Book |
| Ben Ladouceur | b. 1987 | Canadian | poet | Otter |
| Jean-Luc Lagarce | 1957–1995 | French | playwright | Juste la fin du monde |
| Selma Lagerlöf | 1859–1940 | Swedish | novelist, playwright | Gösta Berling's Saga |
| Lori L. Lake | b. 1960 | American | novelist | The Gun Series police quadrology |
| Kevin Lambert | b. 1992 | Canadian | novelist | Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué, Querelle de Roberval |
| Michael Lannan | b. ? | American | screenwriter | Looking |
| Benjamin Law | b. 1982 | Australian | journalist | The Family Law, Gaysia |
| D. H. Lawrence | 1885–1930 | English | novelist, playwright | The Rainbow, Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| David Leavitt | b. 1961 | American | novelist | The Lost Language of Cranes |
| Fran Lebowitz | b. 1950 | American | comedic essayist | Metropolitan Life, Social Studies |
| Violette Leduc | 1907–1972 | French | novelist | La Batarde, Therese and Isabelle |
| John Alan Lee | 1933–2013 | Canadian | sociologist | The Colours of Love, Getting Sex |
| Vernon Lee | 1856–1935 | French | essayist | Satan the Waster |
| Yoon Ha Lee | b. 1979 | American | novelist | Machineries of Empire |
| R. B. Lemberg | b. 1976 | Ukrainian-American | author | The Four Profound Weaves |
| Vange Leonel | 1963-2014 | Brazilian | singer-songwriter | Nau, The Sexual Life of the Savages (compilation) |
| Konstantin Leontiev | 1831–1891 | Russian | literary critic, philosopher | The East, Russia, and Slavdom (essay collections) |
| Robert Lepage | b. 1957 | Canadian | playwright, screenwriter | The Confessional, Polygraph, Far Side of the Moon |
| Douglas LePan | 1914–1998 | Canadian | poet | The Wounded Prince, Bright Glass of Memory, Macalister |
| Alex Leslie | b. ? | Canadian | poet, short story writer | People Who Disappear, The Things I Heard About You |
| David Levithan | b. 1972 | American | novelist | Boy Meets Boy |
| Matthew G. Lewis | 1775–1818 | English | novelist | The Monk |
| José Lezama Lima | 1910–1976 | Cuban | novelist | Paradiso |
| Ali Liebegott | b. 1971 | American | poet | Writer on Transparent |
| Earl Lind | 1874–? | American | autobiographer | Autobiography of an Androgyne |
| Eddie Linden | b. 1935 | British | poet and editor | Hampstead by Night |
| Peter Lloyd | b. 1966 | Australian | journalist | Lateline |
| Lynette Loeppky | b. ? | Canadian | memoirist | Cease |
| Audre Lorde | 1934–1992 | American | poet, essayist | Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Sister Outsider |
| Adam Lowe | b. 1985 | British | poet | Troglodyte Rose |
| Michael Lowenthal | b. 1969 | American | novelist | Avoidance |
| Ed Luce | b. ? | American | graphic novelist | Wuvable Oaf |
| Michael Lynch | 1944–1991 | Canadian | poet, journalist, academic | These Waves of Dying Friends |
| Elizabeth A. Lynn | b. 1946 | American | novelist | Chronicles of Tornor |

## M

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Ann-Marie MacDonald | b. 1958 | Canadian | playwright, novelist | Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Fall on Your Knees, The Way the Crow Flies |
| Bryden MacDonald | b. 1960 | Canadian | playwright | Whale Riding Weather| |
| Hamish Macdonald | b. 1981 | Australian | broadcast journalist | ABC's Q+A |
| Lee MacDougall | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | High Life, The Gingko Tree |
| Daniel MacIvor | b. 1962 | Canadian | playwright, screenwriter | House, Marion Bridge, Weirdos |
| John Henry Mackay | 1864–1933 | Scottish-German | novelist, philosopher | Die Anarchisten (The Anarchists) |
| Bennett Madison | b. 1981 | American | novelist | Lulu Dark (young adult series) |
| Gregory Maguire | b. 1954 | American | novelist | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West |
| Anand Mahadevan | b. 1979 | Indian-Canadian | novelist | The Strike |
| Louise Maheux-Forcier | 1929–2015 | Canadian | novelist | Amadou, Une Forêt pour Zoé |
| Klaus Mann | 1906–1949 | German | novelist, short story writer | Mephisto (novel) |
| Thomas Mann | 1875–1955 | German | novelist, short story writer, essayist | Death in Venice |
| David Charles Manners | b. 1965 | English | novelist, poet | In the Shadow of Crows |
| Jaime Manrique | b. 1949 | Colombian-American | poet, journalist | Latin Moon in Manhattan, Eminent Maricones |
| Blaine Marchand | b. 1949 | Canadian | poet | Regular columnist for Ottawa's LGBT newspaper Capital Xtra! |
| Jovette Marchessault | 1938–2012 | Canadian | novelist, playwright | La Terre est trop courte, Violette Leduc, Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr |
| Daphne Marlatt | b. 1942 | Canadian | poet, novelist | Ana Historic, The Given, This Tremor Love Is |
| Douglas A. Martin | b. 1973 | American | novelist, poet | Outline of My Lover |
| Paula Martinac | b. 1954 | American | novelist, non-fiction | Out of Time, Home Movies |
| Jacques Martineau | b. 1963 | French | film director, screenwriter | Jeanne et le Garçon formidable |
| Richard Mason | b. 1978 | South African/British | novelist | The Drowning People |
| Blair Mastbaum | b. 1979 | American | novelist | Clay's Way, Us Ones in Between |
| Nemir Matos-Cintrón | 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." |
| F. O. Matthiessen | 1902–1950 | American | literary critic | American Renaissance |
| W. Somerset Maugham | 1874–1965 | English | playwright, novelist | Of Human Bondage |
| Armistead Maupin | b. 1944 | American | novelist | Tales of the City |
| Tawiah M'carthy | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Obaaberima |
| Richard McCann | 1949–2021 | American | short story writer, poet | Ghost Letters (poetry collection) |
| Barry McCrea | b. 1974 | Irish | novelist, academic | The First Verse |
| Carson McCullers | 1917–1967 | American | novelist | Reflections in a Golden Eye |
| Val McDermid | b. 1955 | British | novelist | The Mermaids Singing |
| Keith McDermott | b. 1953 | American | novelist, playwright | Acqua Calda |
| R.W.R McDonald | ? | Crime Fiction | novelist | The Nancys, Nancy Business |
| Michael McDowell | 1950–1999 | American | novelist, screenwriter | Beetlejuice screenplay and story |
| Peter McGehee | 1955–1991 | American/Canadian | novelist | Boys Like Us, Sweetheart |
| Fiona McGregor | b. 1965 | Australian | novelist, essayist, critic | Indelible Ink, Strange Museums |
| Vestal McIntyre | b. ? | American | short story writer | Lake Overturn |
| Terrence McNally | 1938–2020 | American | playwright | The Ritz, Love! Valour! Compassion! |
| Casey McQuiston | b. 1991 | American | novelist | Red, White, & Royal Blue |
| Lída Merlínová | 1906–1988 | Czech | novelist | Vyhnanci lásky (Exiles of Love) |
| Mark Merlis | 1950–2017 | American | novelist | An Arrow's Flight, American Studies |
| James Merrill | 1926–1995 | American | poet | The Changing Light at Sandover, A Different Person |
| Charlotte Mew | 1869–1928 | English | poet | The Farmer's Bride (poetry collection) |
| Shayne Michael | b. ? | Canadian | poet | Fif et sauvage |
| Grant Michaels | 1947–2009 | American | mysteries | A Body to Dye For, Dead as a Doornail |
| Michelangelo | 1475–1564 | Italian | artist, poet | Poetry and artistic work such as "David" |
| Stevie Mikayne | b. ? | Canadian | mystery, children's | UnCatholic Conduct, Illicit Artifacts |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | 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 |
| Roswell George Mills | 1896–1966 | Canadian | journalist, poet | Les Mouches Fantastiques |
| David Miranda | b. 1985 | Brazilian | journalist, politician | Detailing mass surveillance by the NSA |
| John Milton | 1608–1674 | English | poet | Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained |
| Yukio Mishima | 1925–1970 | Japanese | poet, playwright, novelist | Confessions of a Mask |
| Sylvia Molloy | 1938–2022 | Argentine | essayist and academic | |
| Paul Monette | 1945–1995 | American | poet, essayist | Borrowed Time |
| Carlos Monsiváis | 1938–2010 | Mexican | journalist, biographer | Días de guardar |
| Shani Mootoo | b. 1957 | Canadian | novelist | Cereus Blooms at Night, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab |
| Cherríe Moraga | b. 1952 | Chicana | poet, essayist, playwright | Loving in the War Years |
| Ethan Mordden | b. 1947 | American | novelist, essayist | "Buddies" cycle of novels |
| César Moro | 1903–1956 | Peruvian | poet | La tortuga ecuestre |
| Erwin Mortier | b. 1965 | Belgian | novelist, poet, essayist, translator | While the Gods Were Sleeping |
| Erín Moure | b. 1955 | Canadian | poet | Furious, O Cidadan, Little Theatres |
| Brane Mozetič | b. 1958 | Slovenian | poet, writer, editor, translator | Banalije |
| Cherry Muhanji | b. 1939 | American | novelist, poet | Her |
| Tamsyn Muir | b. 1985 | New Zealand | novelist | Gideon the Ninth |
| Manuel Mujica Láinez | 1910–1984 | Argentine | novelist, essayist | Glosas castellanas |
| Mirjam Müntefering | b. 1969 | German | novelist | Welche Farbe auch immer oder das Blaue Gefühl |
| Eileen Myles | b. 1949 | American | poet and essayist | Chelsea Girls |

## N

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Hasan Namir | b. 1987 | Canadian | novelist | God in Pink |
| Jim Nason | b. ? | Canadian | novelist, poet, short stories | The Housekeeping Journals, Rooster, Dog, Crow |
| Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens) | b. 1970 | Canadian | poet | The Middle Notebooks, Touch to Affliction |
| Yves Navarre | 1940–1994 | French | writer | Le Jardin d'acclimatation |
| Michael Nava | b. 1954 | American | mystery novels | How Town, The Hidden Law, The Death of Friends, The Burning Plain, and Rag and Bone |
| Abdi Nazemian | b. 1976 | Iranian/American | novelist, screenwriter | The Walk-In Closet, The Quiet |
| Frances Negrón-Muntaner | b. 1966 | Puerto Rican | filmmaker | Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican |
| Luis Negrón | b. 1970 | Puerto Rican | short stories | Mundo Cruel |
| Patrick Ness | b. 1971 | American | novelist | Chaos Walking, Monsters of Men, A Monster Calls |
| Chris New | b. 1981 | British | screenwriter | |
| Anaïs Nin | 1903–1977 | French | diarist | Delta of Venus, Little Birds |
| Salvador Novo | 1904–1974 | Mexican | poet | Romance de Angelillo y Adela |
| Katia Noyes | b. ? | American | writer | Crashing America |

## O

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Achy Obejas | b. 1956 | Cuban/American | writer and translator | Memory Mambo |
| Frank O'Hara | 1926–1966 | American | poetry | Lunch Poems |
| Joe Okonkwo | b. ? | American | novelist | Jazz Moon |
| Anthony Oliveira | b. ? | Canadian | novelist | Dayspring |
| Tasmin Omond | b. 1984 | British | author and journalist | Rush – The Making of a Climate Activist |
| Jamie O'Neill | b. 1962 | Irish | novelist | At Swim, Two Boys |
| Joe Orton | 1933–1967 | English | playwright | Loot |
| Alice Oseman | b. 1994 | English | author | Heartstopper, Loveless |
| Lawrence O'Toole | b. ? | Canadian | film critic, memoirist | Heart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home |
| Wilfred Owen | 1893–1918 | English | poet | "Anthem for Doomed Youth" (poem) |

## P

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| John Palmer | 1943–2020 | Canadian | playwright, screenwriter | A Touch of God in the Golden Age, Sugar |
| Morris Panych | b. 1952 | Canadian | playwright | Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, The Ends of the Earth |
| Michelle Paradise | b. ? | American | writer | The Originals, Star Trek: Discovery |
| Arleen Paré | b. 1946 | Canadian | poet, novelist | Paper Trails, Leaving Now, Lake of Two Mountains |
| Sophia Parnok | 1885–1933 | Russian | poet | Алмаст (Almast, (libretto) |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1922–1975 | Italian | novelist, playwright | Ragazzi di vita, Una vita violenta |
| Benito Pastoriza Iyodo | b. 1954 | Puerto Rican | poet, narrator, essayist | Cartas a la sombra de tu piel |
| Walter Pater | 1839–1894 | British | novelist, essayist, literary critic | The Renaissance (1873), Marius the Epicurean (1885) |
| Fiona Patton | b. 1962 | Canadian | novelist | The Branion Realm (book series) |
| Robert Patrick | b. 1937 | American | playwright | Kennedy's Children, Camera Obscura |
| Karleen Pendleton Jiménez | b. 1971 | American/Canadian | memoirist | How to Get a Girl Pregnant |
| Sandro Penna | 1906–1977 | Italian | poet | This Strange Joy |
| Cristina Peri Rossi | 1830–1894 | Uruguayan | poet | La nave de los locos |
| Néstor Perlongher | 1949–1992 | Argentine | poet | Prosa plebeya |
| Fernando Pessoa | 1888–1935 | Portuguese | poet, literary critic | Mensagem, The Book of Disquiet |
| Petronius | c. 27–66 | Roman | novelist | The Satyricon |
| Edward O. Phillips | 1931–2020 | Canadian | novelist | Sunday's Child, Buried on Sunday |
| Katherine Philips | 1632–1664 | English | poet | Translator of Pierre Corneille's Pompée and Horace |
| Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | b. 1975 | Canadian | poet | Love Cake (poetry collection) |
| János Pilinszky | 1921–1981 | Hungarian | poet | Nagyvárosi ikonok |
| Sarah Pinder | b. ? | Canadian | poet | Cutting Room, Common Place |
| Virgilio Piñera | 1912–1979 | Cuban | poet, novelist, playwright | Rene's Flesh |
| Jean-Paul Pinsonneault | 1923–1978 | Canadian | novelist, dramatist | Les terres sèches |
| Alejandra Pizarnik | 1936–1972 | Argentine | poet | Los trabajos y las noches, Extracción de la piedra de la locura and El infierno musical |
| David Plante | b. 1940 | American | novelist | Francoeur Trilogy--The Family, The Country and The Woods |
| Hazel Jane Plante | b. ? | Canadian | novelist | Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian), Any Other City |
| August von Platen | 1796–1835 | Bavarian | poet | Gedichte |
| Plato | 427–327 B.C. | Greek | philosopher | Symposium |
| Casey Plett | b. 1987 | Canadian | short stories | A Safe Girl to Love |
| William Plomer | 1903–1973 | South African | novelist, poet | Literary editor for Faber and Faber |
| Plutarch | c. 46–c. 119 | Greek | historian, biographer, essayist | Parallel Lives |
| Craig Poile | b. ? | Canadian | poet | True Concessions |
| Sydney Pokorny | 1965–2008 | American | journalist | So You Want to be a Lesbian? |
| Sarah Ponsonby | 1755–1831 | Anglo-Irish | writer | Known as one of the "Ladies of Llangollen" |
| Paul David Power | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | Crippled |
| Ljuba Prenner | 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) |
| John Preston | 1945–1994 | American | novelist, editor | I Once Had a Master |
| Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson | 1858–1942 | American | novelist, journalist | Imre: a Memorandum, The Intersexes, Left to Themselves: Being the Ordeal of Philip and Gerald, White Cockades |
| Marcel Proust | 1871–1922 | French | novelist, essayist | A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) |
| Manuel Puig | 1932–1990 | Argentine | novelist | Kiss of the Spider Woman |

## Q

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Yair Qedar | b. 1969 | Israeli | journalist, screenwriter | Gay Days |
| Andy Quan | b. 1969 | Canadian | poetry, short fiction, non-fiction | Calendar Boy, Six Positions |
| Carol Queen | b. 1957 | American | non-fiction, erotica | Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture |
| Sina Queyras | b. 1963 | Canadian | poetry | Autobiography of Childhood, Lemon Hound, Expressway |
| D. Michael Quinn | 1944–2021 | American | historian | Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example |

## R

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Cheryl Rainfield | b. 1972 | Canadian | novels, short stories | Scars |
| David Rakoff | 1964-2012 | Canadian | humorist | Fraud, Don't Get Too Comfortable |
| Ahmad Danny Ramadan | b. 1984 | Syrian-Canadian | novelist, short stories | Death and Other Fools, Aria, The Clothesline Swing |
| Manuel Ramos Otero | 1948–1990 | Puerto Rican | poet, writer | The Story of the Woman of the Sea |
| James Randi | 1928–2020 | Canadian | scientific skeptic | An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural |
| Lev Raphael | b. 1954 | American | novelist, short stories, memoir, mysteries | Dancing on Tisha B'Av, Winter Eyes |
| Ian Iqbal Rashid | b. 1968 | Tanzanian/Canadian | screenwriter, poet | Touch of Pink |
| David Rayside | b. 1947 | Canadian | political scientist | On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics |
| John Rechy | b. 1931 | American | fiction | City of Night |
| Riley Redgate | b. ? | American | young adult fiction | Seven Ways We Lie, Note Worthy, Final Draft |
| Paul Reed | 1956-2002 | American | fiction, memoir, erotica | Facing It, Longing |
| Raziel Reid | b. 1990 | Canadian | young adult fiction | When Everything Feels Like the Movies |
| Steven Reigns | b. 1975 | American | poet | Inheritance, The Gay Rub, In The Room, and 3-Pack Jack (poetical works) |
| Mary Renault | 1905–1983 | English | fiction | The Charioteer, The Last of the Wine |
| Glen Retief | b. ? | South African/American | memoirist | The Jack Bank |
| Josine Reuling | 1899–1961 | Dutch | writer | Terug naar het eiland |
| Gerard Reve | 1923–2006 | Dutch | writer | Op weg naar het einde, Nader tot U |
| Nina Revoyr | b. 1969 | American | novelist | Southland |
| Shane Rhodes | b. ? | Canadian | poetry | Holding Pattern, The Bindery |
| Christopher Rice | b. 1978 | American | author | The Heavens Rise, The Vines |
| Adrienne Rich | 1929–2012 | American | poetry | The Dream of a Common Language, Diving into the Wreck |
| Christopher Richards | b. 1961 | Canadian | playwright | Molly Wood |
| Bill Richardson | b. 1955 | Canadian | humorist | Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast |
| Nancy Richler | 1957–2018 | Canadian | novelist | Your Mouth Is Lovely, The Impostor Bride |
| Arthur Rimbaud | 1854–1891 | French | poetry | A Season in Hell |
| Keith Ridgway | b. 1965 | Irish | novelist | The Long Falling |
| Mireya Robles | b. 1934 | Cuban | writer | Tiempo artesano. Barcelona: Campos |
| Sophie Robinson | b. 1985 | English | poet | a |
| Robert Rodi | b. 1956 | American | writer | Codename: Knockout, Kept Boy |
| Nelson Rodrigues | 1912–1980 | Brazilian | writer, playwright | Vestido de Noiva |
| Paul Rogers | 1936–1984 | American | novelist | Saul's Book |
| Ned Rorem | 1923–2022 | American | composer | The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem |
| Mark Brennan Rosenberg | b. ? | American | comedy | Blackouts and Breakdowns |
| Sinclair Ross | 1908-1996 | Canadian | novelist | As For Me and My House |
| Jeffrey Round | b. ? | Canadian | mystery | A Cage of Bones |
| Andrea Routley | b. ? | Canadian | short stories | Jane and the Whales |
| Michael Rowe | b. 1962 | Canadian | journalist | Writing Below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authors, Other Men's Sons |
| André Roy | b. 1944 | Canadian | poet | Action writing, Monsieur désir |
| Shawn Stewart Ruff | b. 1959 | American | novelist, editor | Finlater, GJS II, Go the Way Your Blood Beats |
| Muriel Rukeyser | 1913–1980 | American | poetry | The Book of the Dead |
| Jane Rule | 1931–2007 | American/Canadian | novels, non-fiction | Desert of the Heart |
| Joanna Russ | 1937–2011 | American | science fiction | The Female Man |
| Meredith Russo | b. c. 1986/1987 | American | novelist | If I Was Your Girl |
| Paul Russell | b. 1956 | American | novels | The Coming Storm, The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov |
| Elizabeth Ruth | b. 1968 | Canadian | novelist | Ten Good Seconds of Silence, Smoke, Matadora |
| Patrick Ryan | b. 1965 | American | short story writer, novelist | The Dream Life of Astronauts, Send Me |
| Geoff Ryman | b. 1951 | Canadian/British | science fiction/fantasy | Lust, The Unconquered Country |

## S

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Rami Saari | b. 1963 | Israeli | poet | Behold, I've Found My Home, Men at the Crossroad, Introduction to Sexual Linguistics |
| Umberto Saba | 1883–1957 | Italian | poet, novelist | Songbook |
| Vita Sackville-West | 1892–1962 | British | novelist | The Land |
| Marquis de Sade | 1740–1814 | French | novelist, philosopher, playwright | The 120 Days of Sodom, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, Juliette |
| Benjamin Alire Sáenz | b. 1954 | American | novelist | Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club |
| Assotto Saint | 1957–1994 | American | poet, essayist, playwright | Wishing for Wings, Spells of a Voodoo Doll |
| Trish Salah | b. ? | Canadian | poet | Wanting in Arabic |
| Saleem | b. ? | American | playwright, actor, DJ, and dancer | Salam Shalom |
| George Santayana | 1863–1952 | Spanish-American | novelist, poet, philosopher | The Realms of Being |
| Mayra Santos-Febres | b. 1966 | Puerto Rican | novelist, poet, literary critic | Sirena Selena |
| Sappho | c. 630–c. 570 B.C. | Greek | poet | Ode to Aphrodite |
| Severo Sarduy | 1937–1993 | Cuban | poet, playwright | Cobra |
| Frank Sargeson | 1903–1982 | New Zealander | short story writer | A Man and his Wife |
| May Sarton | 1912–1995 | Belgian-American | poet, novelist, memoirist | Plant Dreaming Deep, Journal of a Solitude, The House by the Sea, Recovering and At Seventy |
| Dan Savage | b. 1964 | American | journalist, editor | Advice column Savage Love, Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America |
| Gail Scott | b. 1945 | Canadian | novelist, essayist | My Paris, The Obituary, Biting the Error |
| Sarah Schulman | b. 1958 | American | novelist, historian, playwright | Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America |
| V. E. Schwab | b. 1987 | American | novelist | Villains series, Shades of Magic series, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue |
| Gregory Scofield | b. 1966 | Canadian | poet | The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel, Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez, Thunder Through My Veins |
| Manda Scott | b. 1962 | Scottish | novelist | Hen's Teeth |
| Sarah Scott | 1723–1795 | English | novelist | A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent |
| David Sedaris | b. 1956 | American | essayist, short story writer | Naked (essay collection) |
| Shyam Selvadurai | b. 1965 | Sri Lankan-Canadian | novelist | Funny Boy |
| Maurice Sendak | 1928–2012 | American | children's writer | Where the Wild Things Are |
| Vikram Seth | b. 1952 | Indian | writer | A Suitable Boy, The Golden Gate (Seth novel) |
| Anna Seward | 1742–1809 | English | poet | Louisa |
| Ken Shakin | b. 1959 | American | short story writer | Love Sucks |
| Merry Shannon | b. 1979 | American | novelist | Sword of the Guardian, Branded Ann |
| Bradford Shellhammer | b. 1976 | American | blogger and editor | Founding editor of Queerty |
| Lorimer Shenher | b. ? | Canadian | non-fiction | That Lonely Section of Hell, This One Looks Like a Boy |
| Reginald Shepherd | 1963–2008 | American | poet | Some Are Drowning |
| Randy Shilts | 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 |
| Vivek Shraya | b. 1981 | Canadian | short story writer | God Loves Hair, She of the Mountains |
| Richard Siken | b. 1967 | American | poet | Crush (Richard Siken) |
| jaye simpson | b. ? | Canadian | poet | it was never going to be okay |
| Andy Sinclair | b. ? | Canadian | novelist, short stories | Breathing Lessons |
| Edith Sitwell | 1887–1964 | English | poet | "Still Falls the Rain" (poem) |
| Michael Sledge | b. 1962 | American | novelist, memoirist | The More I Owe You |
| Ali Smith | b. 1962 | Scottish | novelist | Free Love and Other Stories |
| Michael V. Smith | b. ? | Canadian | novelist, poet | Cumberland |
| K. M. Soehnlein | b. 1965 | American | novelist | The World of Normal Boys, You Can Say You Knew Me When |
| Kamal Al-Solaylee | b. 1964 | Yemeni-Canadian | journalist, memoirist | Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes |
| Pablo Soler Frost | b. 1965 | Mexican | novelist, essayist | Malebolge |
| Susan Sontag | 1933–2004 | American | novelist, essayist | AIDS and Its Metaphors |
| Tom Spanbauer | b. 1946 | American | novelist | The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon |
| Sir Stephen Spender | 1909–1995 | English | novelist, poet, essayist | Poems |
| Jack Spicer | 1925–1965 | American | poet | My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer |
| Rae Spoon | b. ? | Canadian | short story writer | First Grass Spring Fire, superioryouareinferior, My Prairie Home |
| Gertrude Stein | 1874–1946 | American | novelist | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
| Andreas Steinhöfel | b. 1962 | German | novelist, author for children and teenagers | The Center of the World |
| Ian Stephens | 1955–1996 | Canadian | poet | Diary of a Trademark |
| Kent Stetson | b. 1948 | Canadian | playwright | Warm Wind in China, As I Am |
| Susan Stinson | b. ? | American | novelist | Venus of Chalk |
| John Elizabeth Stintzi | b. ? | Canadian | novelist, poet | Vanishing Monuments, Junebat |
| Charles Warren Stoddard | 1843–1909 | American | poet, journalist | Travel books about Polynesian life |
| Aryeh Lev Stollman | b. 1954 | Canadian-American | novelist, short story writer | The Far Euphrates |
| Lytton Strachey | 1880–1932 | English | biographer | Queen Victoria (biography) |
| Allan Stratton | b. 1951 | Canadian | playwright | Rexy |
| Susan Stryker | b. 1961 | American | historian | Transgender History (2008) |
| Douglas Stuart | b. 1976 | Scottish-American | novelist | Shuggie Bain |
| Howard Sturgis | 1855–1920 | Anglo-American | novelist | Tim: A Story of School Life, All That Was Possible |
| Rebecca Sugar | b. 1987 | American | screenwriter | Adventure Time |
| Algernon Swinburne | 1837–1909 | English | poet | Poems and Ballads |
| John Addington Symonds | 1840–1893 | British | poet, literary critic | Renaissance in Italy |
| Scott Symons | 1933–2009 | Canadian | novelist | Place d'Armes, Civic Square, Helmet of Flesh |
| Shawn Syms | b. 1970 | Canadian | journalist, short stories | Nothing Looks Familiar |

## T

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Proma Tagore | b. ? | Indian/Canadian | poetry | language is not the only thing that breaks |
| Mutsuo Takahashi | b. 1937 | Japanese | poetry | Rose Tree, Fake Lovers |
| Mariko Tamaki | b. 1975 | Canadian | graphic novelist | Skim |
| Jordan Tannahill | b. 1988 | Canadian | playwright | Get Yourself Home Skyler James, Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes, rihannaboi95 |
| Joelle Taylor | b. 1967 | British | poet and playwright | The Woman Who Was Not There, Songs My Enemy Taught Me |
| Valerie Taylor | 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 |
| Michelle Tea | b. 1971 | American | author, poet, and literary arts organizer | The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America |
| Sara Teasdale | 1884–1933 | American | writer, poet | Flame and Shadow, Love Song |
| Richard Teleky | b. 1946 | American-Canadian | novelist, poet, short stories, essays | The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin, Pack Up the Moon |
| Kai Cheng Thom | b. ? | Canadian | poet, novelist | A Place Called No Homeland, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars |
| Colin Thomas | b. ? | Canadian | playwright | One Thousand Cranes, Two Weeks Twice a Year, Flesh and Blood, Sex Is My Religion |
| Lee Thomas | b. ? | American | horror author | The Dust of Wonderland, The German |
| Sara Tilley | b. 1978 | Canadian | novelist, playwright | Skin Room, Duke |
| James Tiptree Jr. (pseudonym of Alice Sheldon) | 1917–1987 | American | science fiction writer | Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever |
| Colm Tóibín | b. 1955 | Irish | novelist and short story writer | The Heather Blazing |
| Sandi Toksvig | b. 1958 | Danish | comedian, writer, presenter | Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners, Great Journeys of the World |
| Luisita Lopez Torregrosa | b. ? | Puerto Rican | journalist, memoirist | Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution |
| Peterson Toscano | b. 1965 | American | playwright | Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House |
| Paul Toupin | 1918–1993 | Canadian | playwright, memoirist, essayist | Brutus, Souvenirs pour demain |
| Matthew J. Trafford | b. ? | Canadian | short stories | The Divinity Gene |
| Michel Tremblay | b. 1942 | Canadian | playwright, novelist | Hosanna, Les Belles-sœurs, The Heart Laid Bare, Albertine in Five Times |
| Roland Michel Tremblay | b. 1972 | Canadian | novelist | Waiting for Paris |
| Mary L. Trump | b. 1965 | American | author | Too Much and Never Enough |
| Christos Tsiolkas | b. 1965 | Australian | novelist | The Slap |
| Marina Tsvetaeva | 1892–1941 | Russian | poet | Remeslo, Posle Rossii |
| Aren X. Tulchinsky | b. 1968 | Canadian | novelist, screenwriter | The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Love Ruins Everything |
| Arielle Twist | b. ? | Canadian | poet | Disintegrate / Dissociate |

## U

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works | References |
| Karl Heinrich Ulrichs | 1825–1895 | German | non-fiction | Research on the Riddle of Man-Manly Love | |
| Luz María Umpierre | b. 1947 | Puerto Rican | poetry | The Margarita Poems | |

## V

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Fernando Vallejo | b. 1942 | Colombian | novelist | Our Lady of the Assassins |
| Ruth Vanita | b. 1955 | Indian | academic | Sappho and the Virgin Mary...Imagination, Queering India...and the West |
| Marlene van Niekerk | b. 1954 | South African | author | Triomf |
| Anuja Varghese | b. ? | Canadian | short stories | Chrysalis |
| R. M. Vaughan | 1965–2020 | Canadian | poet, novelist, playwright | A Quilted Heart |
| Sándor Vay | 1859–1918 | Hungarian | journalist, chronicler | Gróf Vay Sándor munkái |
| Carl Van Vechten | 1880–1964 | American | novelist, photographer | Nigger Heaven |
| Valeria Vegas | b. 1985 | Spanish | novelist, essayist | ¡Digo! Ni puta ni santa. Las memorias de La Veneno (2015) |
| Paul Verlaine | 1844–1896 | French | poet | Libretti for Vaucochard et Fils 1$^{er}$ and Fisch-Ton-Kan |
| Théophile de Viau | 1590–1626 | French | poet | Fragment d'une histoire comique |
| Gore Vidal | 1925–2012 | American | novelist | The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge |
| Xavier Villaurrutia | 1903–1950 | Mexican | playwright, poet | Autos profanos |
| David Viñas | 1927–2011 | Argentine | novelist, dramatist | Un Dios Cotidiano |
| Virgil | 70–19 B.C. | Roman | poet | Aeneid |
| Renée Vivien | 1877–1909 | Anglo-French | poet | Cendres et Poussières |
| Bruno Vogel | 1898–1983 | German | novelist, short stories | Alf |
| Paula Vogel | b. 1951 | American | playwright | How I Learned to Drive |
| Ocean Vuong | b. 1988 | Vietnamese - American | poet, novelist | Night Sky with Exit Wounds, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous |

## W

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Rinaldo Walcott | b. 1965 | Canadian | academic, cultural studies | Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada |
| Alice Walker | b. 1944 | American | fiction | The Color Purple |
| Rebecca Walker | b. 1969 | American | non-fiction | To be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism |
| Betsy Warland | b. 1946 | American-Canadian | poetry, non-fiction | Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing |
| Sylvia Townsend Warner | 1893–1978 | English | novelist, poet, activist | A Moral Ending and Other Stories |
| Patricia Nell Warren | 1936–2019 | American | fiction | The Front Runner |
| Bryan Washington | b. 1993 | American | fiction | Lot, Memorial |
| Sarah Waters | b. 1966 | British | fiction | Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, The Night Watch |
| David Watmough | 1926–2017 | British-Canadian | fiction, plays | Collected Shorter Fiction of David Watmough: 1972–82 |
| Evelyn Waugh | 1903–1966 | English | fiction | Brideshead Revisited |
| Thomas Waugh | 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 |
| Jessica L. Webb | b. ? | Canadian | mysteries | Pathogen, Repercussions |
| Barry Webster | b. 1961 | Canadian | fiction | The Lava in My Bones |
| Matthew James Weigel | b. ? | Canadian | poet | Whitemud Walking |
| John Weir | b. 1959 | American | novelist, journalist | The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, What I Did Wrong |
| Denton Welch | 1915–1948 | English | writer, painter | Maiden Voyage |
| Robert Westfield | b. 1972 | American | novelist | Suspension |
| Edmund White | b. 1940 | American | fiction | A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty |
| Patrick White | 1912–1990 | Australian | fiction | Flaws in the Glass |
| Joshua Whitehead | b. 1989 | Canadian | poet, novelist | Full-Metal Indigiqueer, Johnny Appleseed |
| William Whitehead | 1931–2018 | Canadian | television/radio documentaries, memoirist | Words to Live By |
| Walt Whitman | 1819–1892 | American | poet | Leaves of Grass |
| Zoe Whittall | b. 1976 | Canadian | fiction | Bottle Rocket Hearts, Holding Still for As Long As Possible |
| Oscar Wilde | 1854–1900 | English-Irish | fiction, plays | The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Thornton Wilder | 1897–1975 | American | fiction, plays | Our Town |
| Ally Wilkes | b. ? | English | fiction | All the White Spaces |
| Michael Willhoite | b. 1946 | American | children's literature | Daddy's Roommate |
| Jonathan Williams | 1929–2008 | American | poet | Jubilant Thicket: New and Selected Poems |
| Tennessee Williams | 1911–1983 | American | playwright | A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Tucky Williams | b. 1991 | American | filmmaker, actress, screenwriter | Girl/Girl Scene, Dead Moon Rising |
| Jean Wyllys | b. 1974 | Brazilian | journalist, politician | Aflitos |
| Angus Wilson | 1913–1991 | English | author | Hemlock and After |
| Douglas Wilson | 1950–1992 | Canadian | journalist, novelist | Labour of Love |
| Jacqueline Wilson | b. 1945 | English | novelist | The Story of Tracy Beaker, Double Act, Hetty Feather |
| Jonathan Wilson | b. 1957 | Canadian | actor and playwright | My Own Private Oshawa |
| Martin Wilson | b. 1973 | American | fiction | What They Always Tell Us |
| Jia Qing Wilson-Yang | b. ? | Canadian | novelist | Small Beauty |
| Johann Joachim Winckelmann | 1717–1768 | German | historian, archaeologist | Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (The History of Art in Antiquity |
| Donald Windham | 1920–2010 | American | novelist and memoirist | The Dog Star |
| Christa Winsloe | 1888–1944 | German | fiction | Yesterday and Today |
| Jeanette Winterson | b. 1959 | English | fiction | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
| Monique Wittig | 1935–2003 | French | philosopher | Le Corps Lesbien |
| Rita Wong | b. 1968 | Canadian | poet | monkeypuzzle |
| Alan Woo | b. ? | Canadian | poet, short stories, children's literature | Maggie's Chopsticks |
| Jaime Woo | b. ? | Canadian | non-fiction | Meet Grindr |
| Marnie Woodrow | b. 1969 | Canadian | novelist | Spelling Mississippi |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882–1941 | English | novelist | Orlando: A Biography |

## Y

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| Neon Yang | b. 1982/1983 | Singaporean | author | The Genesis of Misery, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Red Threads of Fortune |
| Bart Yates | b. 1962 | American | novelist | Leave Myself Behind, Brothers Bishop, The Distance Between Us |
| d'bi young | b. 1977 | Canadian | poet, playwright | rivers and other blackness between us, word! sound! powah, blood.claat: one womban story |
| Ian Young | b. 1945 | Canadian | poet, non-fiction | The Gay Muse, The Male Homosexual in Literature |
| Perry Deane Young | 1941–2019 | American | journalist, playwright | Two of the Missing, The David Kopay Story |
| Marguerite Yourcenar | 1903–1987 | French | novelist | Memoirs of Hadrian |
| Josée Yvon | 1950–1994 | Canadian | playwright, poet | Danseuse-mamelouk, Maîtresses-Cherokees |

## Z

| Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Genre | Notable works |
| A. Light Zachary | b. ? | Canadian | poet | More Sure |
| Luis Zapata | 1951–2020 | Mexican | novelist | De pétalos perennes (Perennial Petals) |
| Eve Zaremba | b. 1930 | Polish/Canadian | mystery novelist | A Reason to Kill, The Butterfly Effect |
| Jerzy Zawieyski | 1902–1969 | Polish | poetry, novels | Gdzie jesteś, przyjacielu |
| Fiona Zedde | b. 1976 | Jamaican-American | novelist | Bliss |
| Cyd Zeigler | b. 1973 | American | sportswriter | The Outsports Revolution: Truth and Myth in the World of Gay Sports |
| Xiran Jay Zhao | b. ? | Chinese-Canadian | fiction | Iron Widow |
| Alexander Ziegler | 1944–1987 | Swiss | journalist, novelist | Die Konsequenz |
| Richard Zimler | b. 1956 | American/Portuguese | novelist | The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Hunting Midnight, The Search for Sana, The Seventh Gate, The Warsaw Anagrams |
| Robert D. Zimmerman | b. 1952 | American | mystery | Closet, Outburst |
| Narcyza Żmichowska | 1819–1876 | Polish | poetry, novels | The Heathen |
| Rachel Zolf | b. 1968 | Canadian | poet | Masque, Human Resources |
| Daniel Zomparelli | b. ? | Canadian | poet, short stories | Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person |
| Mark Richard Zubro | b. ? | American | mystery | Tom and Scott mystery series |
| Peter Zuckerman | b. 1979 | American | journalist | Buried in the Sky |
| Harriet Sohmers Zwerling | 1928–2019 | American | short stories, translation, essays | Notes of a Nude Model |