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
Langston Hughes: The Mule Bone, etc. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Langston+Hughes
Federico Garcia Lorca: Major Works (Gutenberg) http://www.self.gutenberg.org/articles/eng/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorca#Major_works
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
Arthur Rimbaud: Poems and Prose https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Arthur+Rimbaud
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