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Revision as of 23:09, 12 October 2015
To many in the LGBTQ community, romance novels have been an inspirational outlet for our same-sex attractions and desires. They allow the reader to wander off into a world of desire and emotion that we often cannot, or fail to, attain in our own lives. Today, many local organizations cater to readers and writers of LGBTQ romance novels, such as Rainbow Romance Writers in the United States.
Although same-sex love has been put into the written word for generations, it has often been censored or difficult to obtain. It is only in the last fifty years or so that romantic novels depicting same-sex love have become a genre of fiction on its own in developed western society. One of the path-breakers on this front was British novelist Mary Renault who, through her published work beginning in the 1950s, became an idol to the LGBTQ community.
Prior to this time, many romantic writers had to incorporate same-sex love surreptitiously, through coded messages, or through the use of metaphor, as they did in many other art forms.
Many early LGBTQ romantic novelists rose to great fame in their lifetime or subsequent to their death - most notably, Selma Lagerlof of Sweden who was the first LGBTQ individual to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Today, they are household names. For contemporary LGBTQ writers, a sign of great achievement is the nomination and/or receiving of a Lambda Literary Award.
We have identified LGBTQ romantic novelists from Sweden, France, Canada, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, and the United States. Access their biographies to learn more about these fascinating individuals:
- Karin Boye, Sweden
- Rob Byrnes, United States
- Emily Dickinson, United States
- Daphne du Maurier, Great Britain
- Michael Thomas Ford, United States
- Jocelyne Francois, France
- George Frederick Green, Great Britain
- Robert Joseph Greene, Canada
- Karin Kallmaker, United States
- Selma Lagerlof, Sweden
- Lori L. Lake, United States
- Gordon Merrick, United States
- Mary Renault, Great Britain
- Sappho, Greece
- Howard Sturgis, Great Britain
- Damon Suede, United States
- Oscar Wilde, Ireland
- Donald Windham, United States
