LGBT literature

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LGBT literature is an all encompassing term for literature produced by people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, or which involves characters, plot lines or themes concerning this community.

“	In a historical sense, literature as we understand it is a fairly new innovation, and the current concept of homosexuality is even fresher from the cultural oven. It's no great surprise, then, that gay literature — or even gay characters in literature — are so relatively new as to still be shiny.	”
	— Kilian Meloy , "Influential Gay Characters in Literature" from AfterElton.com

1 Subgenres
2 Awards
3 Further reading
4 External links
5 See also

[edit] Subgenres

Lesbian literature, gay pulp and gay science fiction are genres of LGBT fiction which represent some of the earliest incorporation of these "taboo" subjects in contemporary literature. Novels like La Garçonne by Victor Margueritte (1922) and The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (1928) are early examples of books with lesbian themes.

LGBT authors, characters and themes are present in all genres of literature, but the increasing amount of LGBT fiction emerging in recent years has established several (if unofficial) subgenres, including LGBT mystery, horror and romance, as well as gay teen and lesbian teen fiction and humor handbooks.

[edit] Awards

Lambda Literary Award

[edit] Further reading

Pages passed from hand to hand : the hidden tradition of homosexual literature in English from 1748 to 1914 edited and with an introduction by Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt, Chatto & Windus 1998
Homosexuality in Literature, 1890-1930 by Jeffrey Mayers, Athlone, 1977
A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods, Yale University Press, 1999
Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature edited by David Bergman, University of Wisconsin Press, 1991
Beyond Sex and Romance? : the politics of contemporary lesbian fiction edited by Elaine Hutton, Women's Press, 1998.
Lesbian and Gay Writing: An Anthology of Critical Essays edited by Mark Lilly, Macmillan, 1990
Love Between Men in English Literature by Paul Hammond, Macmillan, 1996
The Homosexual as Hero in Contemporary Fiction by Stephen Adams, Vision, 1980
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse, edited by Stephen Coote, Penguin, 1983
Essays on Gay Literature edited by Stuart Kellogg, Harrington Park Press, 1983.
So You Want to be a Lesbian? a guide for amateurs and professionals,by Liz Tracey and Sydney Pokorny, St. Martin's/Griffin, 1996.