Free Online Resources of Classic LGBTQIA Authors

Celebrate Pride Month by reading the works of classic LGBTQIA authors! Representation of LGBTQIA culture and people throughout history was scarce due to censorship, legality, discrimination, and violence. Free resources available online demonstrate the rich literary history of LGBTQIA authors. Check back weekly for new additions!

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E.M. Forster: Room With A View, Howard’s End, A Passage to India, etc.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=E.+M.+Forster

George Gordon Byron: Don Juan, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, poems, etc.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=lord+byron

Sappho: The Poems of Sappoh (Gutenberg) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=sappho

Oscar Wilde: A Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere’s Fan, etc.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Oscar+Wilde

Virginia Woolf: Night and Day, Jacob’s Room, The Voyage Out, Monday or Tuesday, etc. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=virginia+woolf

D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, Woman in Love, The Rainbow, etc. (Gutenberg) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=D.H.+Lawrence

Paul Verlaine: Poems of Paul Verlaine (Gutenberg) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Paul+Verlaine

Colette: Cheri, The Mansion of Claudine, etc. (Gutenberg) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Colette

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Drum Taps, Complete Prose Works, Poems, etc. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Walt+Whitman

Edna St. Vincent Millay: The Lamp and the Bell, The Harp-Weaver, etc. (Gutenberg) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay

Radclyffe Hall: ‘Twixt Earth and Stars, A Sheaf of Verses, etc. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=radclyffe+hall

Marcel Proust:The Swan novels, Sodome & Gamorroha, etc. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Marcel+Proust

Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks, Tristan, etc. (Gutenberg) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Thomas+Mann

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