boykeats:

neronice:

boykeats:

kiyioko:

boykeats:

louisa may alcott, w. h. auden, jane austen, james baldwin, charlotte brontë, lord byron, truman capote, willa cather, emily dickinson, e. m. forster, langston hughes, christopher isherwood, henry james, federico garcía lorca, christopher marlowe, herman melville, edna st. vincent millay, wilfred owen, marcel proust, mary renault, arthur rimbaud, siegfried sassoon, william shakespeare, gertrude stein, alfred lord tennyson, henry david thoreau, walt whitman, oscar wilde, tennessee williams, virginia woolf

what do all these beloved classic authors have in common? that’s right. none of them were straight. not a one. every single author on this list experienced same-gender romantic attraction during their lives. literary tradition is a hundred times more queer than what your high school english class would ever let you know

since this is mostly uk/american lit, let me add some french queer authors

paul verlaine, arthur rimbaud, marguerite yourcenar, cyrano de bergerac, simone de beauvoir, montaigne, voltaire, honoré de balzac, louis aragon, gustave flaubert 

there are probably a bunch more, but these are the ones i can remember more clearly. and all of them have one thing in common: they wrote beautiful and meaningful things.

most of them had their works censored, and the pronouns in their writings were changed, to ensure max heterosexuality.

thank you so much for adding all these great french authors!!

I don’t get why more black queer writers haven’t been mentioned. Lemme fix this for you:

James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Angela Weld Grimké, Wallace Thurman, Jewell Gomez, Nelson, Lorraine Hansberry, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar, Bruce Nugent

i really appreciate this addition!! thank you so much