queer authors
Non-straight literary creators
Queer authors are writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise outside heterosexual and cisgender norms.
The term encompasses both authors who write about LGBTQ+ experiences and those who simply happen to be queer, regardless of their subject matter.
The syllabus featured queer authors from the Harlem Renaissance.
In literary studies, the phrase often signals attention to how sexuality and gender identity shape creative work and reception.
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- intersectionalityInterconnected identity-based discrimination study
- LGBTQ+ communitySexual and gender minorities
- chosen familyIntentionally formed kinship network
- poetryMetrical literary composition
James Baldwin · Harlem Renaissance · marginalized voices · feminist movements · gender fluidity · speculative fiction · experimental writing · underground publishing · sexual orientation · graphic novels · autofiction · drama · magical realism · Oscar Wilde · Stonewall · community building · pride · coming out
- LGBTQ educationGSA, LGBTQ history, LGBTQ youth, trans students, LGBTQ representation
- Queer Litgay fiction, coming-out stories, sapphic romance, lesbian drama, Oscar Wilde
- Queer Literaturegay fiction, gay characters, lesbian fiction, lesbian characters, gay love
- author groups