Literary Critics and Editors Who Identify as LGBTQ

'Argentina

• Carlos Arcidiacono

Austria

• Helene von Druskowitz

Brazil

• Mario de Andrade
• Walmir Ayala

Canada

• Anne-Marie Alonzo
• Bert Archer
• Rachel Zolf

Cuba

• Virgilio Pinera
• Severo Sarduy

Denmark

• Herman Bang

Finland

• Hagar Olsson

France

• Roland Barthes

Great Britain

• Joe Randolph Ackerley
• Brigid Brophy
• Anthony Edward Dyson
• James Fenton
• Edmund Gosse
• Beatrice Hastings
• Adam Mars-Jones
• Sir Stephen Spender
• John Addington Symonds

Kenya

• Binyavanga Wainaina

Puerto Rico

• Luz Maria Umpierre
• Mayra Santos-Febres

Romania

• Ion Negoitescu

Sweden

• Klara Johanson

United States

• Paula Gunn Allen
• Stanley Crouch
• Doris Grumbach
• David Leavitt
• J. D. McClatchy
• F. O. Matthiesson
• Barbara Smith
• George Whitmore