Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday

by Frank Wynne

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LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share great triumphs and deep despairs; to praise the virtues of their lover, extol their loneliness and proclaim their lust; to tell of their peculiarities and mundanities. For almost as long, they have been censored and bowdlerised, persecuted and relegated to the margins. No longer. Alive in show more these pages, readers will hear Homer's Achilles beat his chest in grief for the loss of his Patroclus and Paul Verlaine exalt the arsehole of his lover. They will see Alison Bechdel tiptoe then leap out of the closet and Juno Dawson come out again, but differently. They will bite and lick and groan in sweet surprise with Roz Kaveney, and fall in and out of love alongside Qiu Miaojin in Paris and Taiwan. They will recognise queer saints and icons - Audre Lorde, Larry Kramer, Virginia Woolf - and meet young queer, trans and non-binary writers - Keith Jarrett, Zhang Yueran and Niviaq Korneliussen, among others. Frank Wynne allows their voices to ring out, unashamed and unabashed, in eighty pieces that straddle the spectrum of queer existence: short stories, poems, essays, extracts and scenes from countries the world over, from ancient times to yesterday. show less

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Ackland, Valentine (Contributor)
Arenas, Reinaldo (Contributor)
Armella, John Better (Contributor)
Bartlett, Neil (Contributor)
Bechdel, Alison (Contributor)
Behn, Aphra (Contributor)
Binnie, Imogen (Contributor)
Bowles, Jane (Contributor)
Boye, Karin (Contributor)
Brown, Rita Mae (Contributor)
Burroughs, William (Contributor)
Catullus (Contributor)
Cavafy, Constantine (Contributor)
Cavalli, Patrizia (Contributor)
Ching, Yau (Contributor)
Chughtai, Ismat (Contributor)
Cruz, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Contributor)
Dawson, Juno (Contributor)
Dehnel, Jacek (Contributor)
Dickinson, Emily (Contributor)
Fitzpatrick, Cat (Contributor)
Gale, Patrick (Contributor)
Galgut, Damon (Contributor)
Garland, Rosie (Contributor)
Ginsberg, Allen (Contributor)
Guibert, Herve (Contributor)
Gunn, Thom (Contributor)
Hall, Radclyffe (Contributor)
Hensher, Philip (Contributor)
Highsmith, Patricia (Contributor)
Hirschfeld, Magnus (Contributor)
Hollinghurst, Alan (Contributor)
Homer (Contributor)
Homes, A. M. (Contributor)
Hoshino, Tomoyuki (Contributor)
Houseman, A. E. (Contributor)
Hughes, Langston (Contributor)
Jarrett, Keith (Contributor)
Kaveney, Roz (Contributor)
Korneliussen, Niviaq (Contributor)
Kramer, Larry (Contributor)
Leskly, Hezy (Contributor)
Lister, Anne (Contributor)
Lobe, Max (Contributor)
Logan, Kirsty (Contributor)
Loo, Sergio (Contributor)
Lorca, Federico Garcia (Contributor)
Lorde, Audre (Contributor)
Lowell, Amy (Contributor)
Mansfield, Katherine (Contributor)
Mathijsen, Alma (Contributor)
Maupin, Armistead (Contributor)
McCullers, Carson (Contributor)
McMillan, Andrew (Contributor)
Miaojin, Qiu (Contributor)
Mungan, Murathan (Contributor)
Mutsuo, Takahashi (Contributor)
Nugent, Bruce (Contributor)
Owen, Wilfred (Contributor)
Pasolini, Pier Paolo (Contributor)
Preciado, Paul B. (Contributor)
Revathi, A. (Contributor)
Rimbaud, Arthur (Contributor)
Sappho (Contributor)
Schimel, Lawrence (Contributor)
Shakespeare, William (Contributor)
Taia, Abdellah (Contributor)
Toibin, Colm (Contributor)
Tsvetaeva, Marina (Contributor)
Verlaine, Paul (Contributor)
Viloria, Hida (Contributor)
Vivien, Renee (Contributor)
Warner, Sylvia Townsend (Contributor)
Whitman, Walt (Contributor)
Wilde, Oscar (Contributor)
Winterson, Jeanette (Contributor)
Wong, Nicholas (Contributor)
Woolf, Virginia (Contributor)
Yueran, Zhang (Contributor)

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Original publication date
2021
Dedication
To Roz and her many avatars.

In memory of Jan Morris, writer, historian, pioneer of light and shade, of inner music.
First words
I began researching this anthology when I was eleven years old, after a fashion.

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LGBTQ+, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
808.8992066 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Literature Collections Collections by and for groups of people Literature for and by groups of people with specific attributes, residents of specific areas Literature for or by groups of people with specific attributes
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PN6071 .H724 .Q447 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature
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