From left to right: Sappho, Jan Morris, Allen Ginsberg, Federico Garcia Lorca, Christopher Isherwood, Gertrude Stein, Pat Parker, Ocean Vuong, Angela Davis, Alison Bechdel
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This research guide will connect researchers to many types of information sources by and about queer writers and poets. Queer, meaning "relating to a sexual or gender identity that does not correspond to established ideas of sexuality and gender, especially heterosexual norms" (Oxford Dictionaries), is an umbrella term for a wide variety of people who do not identity with cis heterosexual norms and roles.
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The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature by 
Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works by 
Gay and Lesbian Themes: Critical Survey of Poetry, 4th Edition by 
Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century by 
Novelists with Gay and Lesbian Themes: Critical Survey of Long Fiction by To access electronic resources, you will need to enter your Multipass information when prompted
Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel by 
Gay Fictions: Wilde to Stonewall : Studies in a Male Homosexual Literary Tradition by 
Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelrists by 
Homoplot: The Coming-Out Story in Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Identity by 
Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory by 
Materializing Queer Desire : Oscar Wilde to Andy Warhol by Click a link below to see all print books on that topic at the Gumberg Library
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Literature Databases
General Databases Covering Literature
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This research guide was created by Alivia Austin, English Department Intern, November 2023
