Gay Through Literature
my attempt at collecting queer books so our history doesn't become lost + to hopefully interest others within it too.
*please note I'd love recommendations on works i may have missed!!
created by prettyqueer
last updated October, 2026
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yooo i love how comprehensive this list is!
thank you!! for the most part, it is primarily poetry and the like. i will admit there's currently a lack of black queerness, but!! i am on the lookout for anything i am missing.
This is amazing!! Is the criteria any queer author/book? One potential addition is Oscar Wilde. Maybe his selected poems (or at least ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’).
yess!! either it being about queerness or being made by queer author
thank you :)) i need to get back to this list and add more poetry i found, but ill add Oscar's work on top of that!! cheers!
It's such a great list, thanks for your hard work!!
It fills my heart to find such an incredible and complex list🥲🥲🥲💕💕💕 Thank you. Would love to see Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth on here, and if I'm not mistaken, I didn't see Orland by Virginia Woolf? Amy Lowell is another Sapphic poet to check out too🤗
i'm glad to hear this :DD it became a side hobby, but i do need to update it soon enough, since i've gotten more works saved - just gotta add them! also also thank you for the recommendations!!! ill add them :))
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