John Gay, English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the thor of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distguished by good-humoured satire and technil assurance. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire fay, Gay was ted at the ee grammar school Barnstaple. He was
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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 english poets *
Though many were aaid of persecutn and hid their sexual orientatn, others boldly me out a time when homosexualy was pletely nmned. Here we take a look at 10 of the greatt gay or bisexual figur classic lerature.
JOHN GAY
Cavafy is a 20th century Greek poet, known for his highly homoerotic and sexually explic poetry.
While he remaed mostly obscure durg his lifetime, he's now e to be revered as one of the great gay poets of the past hundred years. Ifti Nasim was a gay Pakistani-Amerin poet who moved to the Stat to pe persecutn for his sexualy back his hometown. Baldw is known as one of the great, proud gay artists of all time.
Walt Whman is one of the great poets of all time, and a champn of homoeroticism the lerary form. Moreover, gay thors have ed their craft to challenge societal norms. The lik of Osr Wil, Virgia Woolf, and the morn-day gay thors, Emma Donoghue and Sarah Waters.