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John Irving
American novelist and screenwriter
Clive Barker
English author, film director, and visual artist (born 1952)
Virginie Despentes
French writer and film director
Douglas Murray
British author and political commentator (born 1979)
Alison Bechdel
American cartoonist, author
Val McDermid
Scottish crime writer
Samuel R. Delany
American author and literary critic (born 1942)
Roxane Gay
American writer
Dominique Fernandez
French novelist, essayist, travel writer
Larry Kramer
American screenwriter, novelist, essayist, playwright, LGBT-rights and AIDS activist (1935–2020)
David Sedaris
American author (born 1956)
Leslie Feinberg
American transgender activist and writer (1949–2014)
Starhawk
Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American feminist and writer. She is known as a theorist of feminist neopaganism and ecofeminism. In 2013, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.
Barbara Smith
American activist and academic (born 1946)
Jackie Kay
Scottish poet and novelist
Catherynne M. Valente
American writer (born 1979)
Nicola Griffith
British-American writer (b. 1960)
Barbara Hammer
American filmmaker (1939-2019)
Susan Stryker
American professor, historian, author, and filmmaker
Tristan Taormino
American author, columnist and adult film director
Charlie Jane Anders
American author and commentator
Kate Bornstein
American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
Mercedes Lackey
American novelist and short story writer
Dan Savage
American sex advice columnist and gay rights campaigner
Susan Choi
American novelist
Steven Saylor
American writer
Ana Castillo
novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
Susie Bright
American writer and feminist
Sarah Schulman
American writer (born 1958)
Maulik Pancholy
Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker
Sheila Rowbotham
British historian and feminist
Cherríe Moraga
American writer and activist (born 1952)
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American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and AIDS activist (1954-1992)
Andrew Solomon
American journalist
Miodrag Kojadinović
Canadian poet and academic
Carol Queen
American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist
Frank M. Robinson
American science fiction writer (1926-2014)
Jeanne Córdova
American writer (1948-2016)
Maureen F. McHugh
American writer
Abraham Verghese
American physician, teacher, novelist
Patricia Nell Warren
American writer (1936-2019)
Christopher Rice
American fiction writer (1978-)
Lillian Faderman
American writer
Reynolds Price
American writer (1933–2011)
Jane Rule
Canadian novelist (1931–2007)
Randy Shilts
American journalist (1951–1994)
Augusten Burroughs
American writer
Joan Nestle
American writer
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
American activist and author (1946–2025)
David Ebershoff
American writer
Annalee Newitz
American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction
Richard Blanco
Spanish-born American poet (born 1968)
Emil Ferris
American writer, cartoonist, and designer
Martin Duberman
American historian, playwright, and gay rights activist (born 1930)
Craig Rodwell
American gay-rights activist (1940-1993)
Négar Djavadi
French-Iranian writer
Barbara Grier
writer
John Berendt
American writer
Donald Windham
American writer (1920–2010)
Cleve Jones
American LGBT rights and AIDS activist
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