Gay poets

Sophocles (; , , Sophoklễs; 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens, w

Japanese poet (1644–1694)

8th-century classical Arabic poet

Spanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898–1936)

French writer and filmmaker (1889–1963)

British-American poet (1907–1973)

Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)

American poet and writer (1926–1997)

South Korean poet, writer and LGBT activist

American writer (1924–1987)

Greek-Egyptian poet and journalist (1863–1933)

French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)

Italian writer and politician

thumb|Poliziano and Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours|Giuliano de' Medici, from a fresco painted by Renaissance artist [[Domenico Ghirlandaio in the Sassetti Chapel, Santa Trinita, Florence ]] Agnolo (or Angelo) Ambrogini (; 14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known as Angelo Poliziano () or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholarship was instrumental in the divergence of Renaissance (or Humanist) Latin from medieval norms and for developments in philology. His nickname Poliziano, by which he

English author (born 1949)

British classical scholar and poet (1859-1936)

Irish novelist and writer (born 1955)

Spanish poet (1902–1963)

poet from the United States of America (1927–2017)

Cuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943–1990)

Russian writer (1872-1936)

American poet, art critic and writer (1926-1966)

Cuban writer, poet (1910–1976)

American science fiction author and poet (1940–2008)

Czech poet, playwright, bookwriter and historic literature writer (1841-1901)

Russian poet

Italian Renaissance humanist

Polish writer (1899-1956)

Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist (born 1988)

Polish writer (1922–1983)

Scottish writer, journalist, translator, film critic and poet (1944–2011)

Dutch lawyer, legal scholar, diplomat, journalist, novelist and poet, assassinated by the Haganah (1881-1924)

Russian poet, writer and critic (1840–1893)

Portuguese poet (1923-2005)

American poet (1926–1995)

Spanish poet, novelist, politician, and activist (born 1939)

Belgian poet and playwright (born 1958)

Finnish essayist, journalist, writer, and poet (1903–1964)

German writer (1930–1990)

Polish writer, poet, translator and painter

American writer (1936-2019)

Romanian writer and historian (1921–1993)

Cuban writer (1912–1979)

poet, novelist and writer from the United States

Canadian composer (1948–1983)

Dutch writer (1944–2012)

Cuban writer (1937-1993)

Italian poet (1906–1977)

American poet (1919-1988)

Italian humanist, historian and writer (1503-1565)

Finnish writer (1927-2017)

Mexican poet (1904–1974)

writer (1914–2009)

American poet (1923–1991)

Portuguese writer (1923-2006)

Mexican writer (1903–1950)

Russian poet, critic, and publisher; anti-homophobia activist

Dutch author and poet (1924–1986)

Spanish writer and journalist (1897–1979)

American writer, poet, and artist (1916-2009)