| Biographies of GLBT People The Famous, Soon to be famous, and the Hopeful (all of them fabulous!)
These lists are not comprehensive, they're not intended to be so. I've focused on listing people
who have been important in their work and for whom I've been able to locate a personal website maintained by the individual, a website with great depth and reliability, information from the Gale reference databases, and appropriate links to the materials available for loan from the libraries in the Outagamie-Waupaca and Nicolet Federated Library Systems. The inclusion of a person in the lists below does not imply that the libraries in the OWLSnet system own materials by and/or about them. These lists and links are primarily for your awareness, and for your study/reading/listening pleasure etc. Note: to access articles from the Gales databases, you may be prompted for your library card.
Your local library must subscribe to these databases for you to have access. Key: About...........materials about the author, etc. available for loan from the OWLSnet libraries
By................materials by the author, etc. available for loan from the OWLSnet libraries GLRC..........Gale Literature Resource Center GBRC..........Gale Biography Resource Center PW...............Personal Website created by or for the person IW................Interesting Website (in my opinion). Authors
| Library Holdings | Gale Databases | Websites | | | | | Edward Albee | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Horatio Alger | By, About |
GLRC,GBRC | IW | Paula Gunn Allen | By |
GLRC, GBRC | PW | Dorothy Allison | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW, IW | Reinaldo Arenas | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Margaret Atwood | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | W.H. Auden | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Diane Ayres | By |
GBRC, GBRC | PW | James Robert Baker | By | GBRC | PW | James Baldwin | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW | Alan Ball | By | GBRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Clive Barker | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW, IW | Djuna Barnes | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Natalie Clifford Barney | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Nevada Barr | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Marion Dane Bauer | By | GLRC, GBRC | | Bruce Bawer | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW
| Simone de Beauvoir | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Sandra Bernhard | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Francesca Lia Block | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Barrie Jean Borich | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Chastitiy Bono |
By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW
| Paul Bowles | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Marion Zimmer Bradley | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Maureen Brady | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Christopher Bram |
By | GLRC, GBRC | | Perry Brass | | GBRC | PW | Susie Bright | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Poppy Z. Brite | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | James Richard Broughton |
By | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Margaret Wise Brown
| By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Rita Mae Brown | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Frank Browning | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | William S. Burroughs |
By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Charles Busch | By, About |
GLRC, GBRC | PW | George Gordon Lord Byron | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW | Jackie Calhoun | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | | Pat Califia | | GLRC, GBRC | PW |
Truman Capote | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Willa Cather | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW, IW | Bruce Chatwin | By, About | GRLC, GBRC | IW, IW | John Cheever | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Kate Clinton | | GBRC | PW | Jean Cocteau | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW | Colette | By, About
| GLRC, GBRC | IW | Dennis Cooper | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Tee Corinne | By | GBRC | | Noël Coward | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Hart Crane | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Quentin Crisp | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Mart Crowley | By | GLRC, GBRC | | Countee Cullen | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, ~IW | Michael Cunningham | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Samuel Delany | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, ~IW | Tomie dePaola | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Jacques Derrida | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW, IW | Emily Dickinson | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Thomas M. Disch | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Emma Donoghue | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Mark Doty | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Martin Duberman | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Brett Easton Ellis |
By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Lillian Faderman | By | GLRC, GBRC | | David B. Feinberg | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Leslie Feinberg | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Harvey Fierstein | By | GLRC,GBRC | PW | Fannie Flagg | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Janet Flanner | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Malcolm Forbes
| | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Katherine V. Forrest | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | E.M Forster
| By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Stephen Fry | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Federico García Lorca | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Nancy Garden | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Jean Genet | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | André Gide | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Alex Gildzen | By | GBRC, GBRC | ~PW | Allen Ginsberg | By, About
| GLRC, GBRC |
~IW, IW | Chris Glaser | By, About | GBRC | PW | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | By, About | GBRC, GBRC | IW | Jewelle Gomez
| By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW
| Judy Grahn | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Harlan Greene | By
| GLRC, GBRC | | Barbara Grier | | GLRC, GBRC | | Jim Grimsley | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Doris Grumbach |
By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Thom Gunn | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Boze Hadleigh | By | GLRC, GBRC | | Radclyffe Hall | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, ~IW | Lorraine Hansberry | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Joseph Hansen | By | GLRC, GBRC | | James Earl Hardy | By | | PW | Keith Hartman | By | GBRC | PW | Essex Hemphill | By
| GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Patricia Highsmith | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Andrew Holleran | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Alan Hollinghurst | By | GLRC, GBRC
| IW, IW | bell hooks | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | A.E. Housman | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, ~IW | Langston Hughes | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | William Inge | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Christopher Isherwood | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Henry James | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW
| Sarah Orne Jewett | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW, IW | Fenton Johnson | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Jonathan Ned Katz | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | | Joe Keenan | By, About | GBRC | | Jack Kerouac | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | M.E. Kerr | By, About | GLRC, |
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