Influential Homosexual English-Language Authors

 

 Influential Homosexual English-Language Authors

(Sahil Sharifdin Bhat) 

A person can be a great genius but still have serious flaws in his character. He might be a professor at Oxford or Harvard, an international writer or even a Nobel Prize winner, yet his actions could offend even a simple farmer. For a Kashmiri student, reading English literature comes with its own trials—it’s not easy to engage with such works and still hold on firmly to one's faith, culture and emotional stability. Below is a list of homosexual writers whose works our children are passionately studying in schools, colleges and universities:

1. W. H. Auden: Poet and academic, also worked as a professor of poetry at Oxford.  

2. Osbert Sitwell: Memoirist and art patron.  

3. E. M. Forster: Novelist and broadcaster, also a literary critic.  

4. D. H. Lawrence: Novelist, poet, painter and essayist.  

5. Stephen Spender: Poet, essayist and magazine editor.  

6. Oscar Wilde: Playwright, essayist and lecturer.  

7. Somerset Maugham: Playwright, physician and spy during World War I.  

8. Tennessee Williams: Playwright and screenwriter.  

9. Angus Wilson: Novelist and librarian.  

10. Joe Orton: Playwright and actor.  

11. Jeannette Winterson: Novelist and broadcaster.  

12. Peter Ackroyd: Novelist, biographer and historian.  

13. Allen Ginsberg: Poet, activist and professor.  

14. Lytton Strachey: Biographer and critic.  

15. Michel Foucault: Philosopher, historian and sociologist.  

16. Adrienne Rich: Poet, feminist theorist and essayist.  

17. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poet and Jesuit priest.  

18. Thomas Mann: Novelist and essayist.  

19. Marcel Proust: Novelist and critic.  

20. Alan Hollinghurst: Novelist and professor.  

21. Patrick White: Novelist and playwright.  

22. Francis Bacon: Philosopher, essayist and scientist.  

23. Walt Whitman: Poet and journalist.  

24. Gertrude Stein: Modernist writer, art collector and salon host.  

25. Vikram Seth: Novelist, poet and economist.  

26. Edward Albee: Playwright and director.  

27. Audre Lorde: Poet, activist and librarian.  

28. James Baldwin: Novelist, essayist and activist.  

29. Michael Cunningham: Novelist and professor.  

30. Edmund White: Novelist, essayist and critic.  

31. Yuval Noah Harari: Historian, professor and public intellectual.  

32.Virginia Woolf: Bisexual or lesbian

33. Patricia Highsmith: Bisexual 

34. Leslie Feinberg: Lesbian 

35. Alice Walker: Bisexual or lesbian 

36. Pat Parker was openly lesbian. 

37. Larry Kramer: Homosexual 

38. Yukio Mishima: While Yukio Mishima never explicitly stated his sexual orientation, many scholars and critics believe he had homosexual tendencies.

39. Truman Capote:  Homosexual

40. Elif Shafak is openly bisexual. She publicly came out in 2017