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message 1: by Joanna (last edited Nov 21, 2024 01:16PM) (new)

Joanna (walker) | 2322 comments 20.5 Tom Spanbauer: Read a book by Tom Spanbauer or any book by an LGBTQ author. For this task, we will only accept authors included on this list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... [Note: you can add to this list by posting here with a link to identification of the author as LGBTQ.]


message 2: by Valerie (last edited Nov 21, 2024 02:04PM) (new)

Valerie Brown | 3305 comments Becky Chambers

From this wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_C...

'Chambers has lived in Iceland and Scotland before returning to California, where she currently resides with her wife, Berglaug Asmundardottir,[1][14] in Humboldt County.[3]'


Elizabeth (Alaska) David Leavitt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L...

Leavitt, who is gay, has frequently explored gay issues in his works.


Elizabeth (Alaska) Chinelo Okparanta

https://lambdaliteraryreview.org/2018...

I’ve also joined Lambda’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools program ...


message 5: by Rosemary (last edited Nov 25, 2024 04:03PM) (new)

Rosemary | 4384 comments Radclyffe Hall

Alexis Hall

Val McDermid
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...

If you need more information for any of these, please let me know. I think the first two are clear from their GR profiles, and Val McDermid is well known in the UK but perhaps not elsewhere, so I've linked a press article about her relationships.


Elizabeth (Alaska) Masako Togawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako_...

Masako Togawa (戸川昌子, Togawa Masako) (23 March 1931 – 26 April 2016) was a Japanese Chanson singer/songwriter, actress, feminist, novelist, lesbian icon, former night club owner, metropolitan city planning panelist, and music educator.


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Nick (doily) | 511 comments Trans author Jennifer Finney Boylan:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...


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Apple | 1010 comments Miriam Margolyes
"She is a lesbian,[47] and referred to herself as a "dyke" live on national television and in front of Australian prime minister Julia Gillard in 2013"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_...


message 9: by Owlette (last edited Dec 09, 2024 05:10PM) (new)

Owlette | 720 comments Cher

She is included in Wikipedia's Gay Icons list and she said she had a lesbian affair: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Star+C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...


message 11: by Rosemary (new)

Rosemary | 4384 comments Jean Cocteau - the section in his Wikipedia bio headed Private Life begins "Jean Cocteau never hid his bisexuality."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Co...


message 13: by Anika (last edited Jan 10, 2025 10:09AM) (new)

Anika | 2815 comments Saeed Jones

In his Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Award winning memoir, How We Fight For Our Lives, "Jones...tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South."


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Katy | 1224 comments Martha Shelley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_... - she's primarily known as a lesbian activist and writer


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Valerie Brown | 3305 comments Nghi Vo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nghi_Vo
'She defines her sexuality as queer.[3]"


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Lagullande | 1131 comments Tomasz Jedrowski

"Jedrowski was born in Germany to Polish parents and currently lives with his husband in the French countryside. "

https://i-d.co/article/swimming-in-th...


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