This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years.
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25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
Fd out the 25 Most Influential Gay Authors You Should Know About 1. Osr Wil 2. Jam Baldw 3. Tennsee Williams 4. Gore Vidal 5. Edmund Whe. * famous gay writers in history *
Bgraphers have ntually bated Whman’s sexual orientatn; his poetry, particularly Leav of Grass, which faced ser censorship after s publitn, ntas several homoerotic imag, however others argue that this was untentnal. He often nied that there was any homoerotic subtext his wrg, yet those who knew him claimed that their relatnships, he was rather ank about his sexualy. Osr Wil (who also appears on this list), after meetg Whman 1882, was adamant that Whman was gay, and even told the activist Gee Cecil Iv, “I have the kiss of Walt Whman still on my lips.
Dorian Gray was origally published Lipptt’s Monthly Magaze, and drew such harsh cricism for s pictn of “immoraly, ” (one character the novel exprs a potentially romantic fatuatn for another male character) that when was later re-published as a book, Wil toned down the novel’s homoerotic subtext. Locke was gay, and acted as a mentor and role mol to several other gay members of the Harlem Renaissance, cludg Countee Cullen, who appears on this list.
García Lor was gay, and due to his cln of homoromantic them his work, he was heavily censored durg his lifetime—his work was generally banned Spa until 1953. He was a target of Spa’s Fran-era ernment; official reports scribe García Lor as a “socialist” and participant “homosexual and abnormal practic.
30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
Like Whman, is believed that he worked homoromantic subtext to many of his works, but some bgraphers argue that Hugh may have been asexual. In 1956, Baldw published Gvanni’s Room, a novel that drew tense attentn and cricism for s portrayal of homosexualy and bisexualy and is often ced as one of the most important queer novels ever wrten. Capote was openly gay, and while he was never much of an active participant the gay rights movement, the openns wh which he exprsed his inty njunctn wh his level of celebry was an important tone queer history.
His first novel, Confsns of a Mask, is a semi-tobgraphil tale of a young man who mt al wh ncealg his homosexualy Imperial Japan. Based on private journals and letters, as well as her enthiastic advocy for gay rights, is believed that Hansberry was attracted to women.
In 1980, he -found the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, which is now the largt private anizatn that works to provi assistance to people livg wh AIDS. Pat Parker was an Amerin poet, activist, and wrer known for her heartbreakg poetry on the experience of beg a gay black woman the U.