| 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, GBRC | PW, ~IW | Barbara Kingsolver | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Tony Kushner | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Selma Lagerlof | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Arthur Laurents | By, About | GBRC | |
T.E. Lawrence | By, About
| GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | David Leavitt | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Winston Leyland | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Lance Loud | | GBRC | IW | Craig Lucas | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, ~IW
| Charles Ludlam | By | GLRC, GBRC | |
Gregory Maguire | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW, IW | Mabel Maney | By | GBRC | IW, IW | Thomas Mann | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Eric Marcus | By | GBRC | PW | Christopher Marlowe | By, About | GLRC, GBRC
| IW, IW, IW | Adam Mars-Jones | By | GLRC, GBRC | | Paula Martinac | By | GLRC, GBRC | | Robin Maugham | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | W. Somerset Maugham | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Armistead Maupin | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Stephen McCauley | By | GBRC | | Carson McCullers | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Val McDermid | By | GBRC | PW | Rod McKuen | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Claire McNab | By | GLRC, GBRC | | Terrence McNally | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Brian McNaught | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Herman Melville | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Mark Merlis | By | GBRC | PW | James Merrill | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Penny Mickelbury | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Edna St. Vincent Millay | By, About | GLRC, GBRC
| IW, IW | Kate Millett
| By, About | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW, IW | Yukio Mishima | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Paul Monette | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, ~IW |
Marianne Moore | By, About
| GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Ethan Mordden | By | GLRC, GBRC | |
Michael Nava | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Gloria Naylor | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Joan Nestle | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Lesléa Newman | By | GLRC, GBRC
| PW | Frank O'Hara | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Achy Obejas | By | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW | Joe Orton | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, ~IW | Camille Paglia | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Felice Picano | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Reynolds Price | By, About | GLRC, GBRC |
IW, IW | Marcel Proust
| By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Manuel Puig | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW, IW | Lev Raphael | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | John Rechy | By About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Mary Renault | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW, IW | Christopher Rice |
By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Arthur Rimbaud | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Paul Rudnick | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW |
Jane Rule | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Paul Russell | By | GLRC, GBRC | | Vito Russo | | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Leigh W. Rutledge | By | GLRC, GBRC | | Alex Sanchez | By | GBRC | PW | Barry Sandler | | GBRC
| | George Santayana | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, ~IW | Sappho | By, About | GLRC, GBRC |
IW, IW | May Sarton | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW, IW | Dan Savage | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Lawrence Schimel | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Sarah Schulman | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Sandra Scoppettone | By | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW | Mab Segrest | By, About | | IW, IW | Ntozake Shange | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, ~IW |
Randy Shilts | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | David Sedaris |
By About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, ~IW | Michelangelo Signorile | By | GBRC | PW | Bob Smith | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Karl M. Soehnlein | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Susan Sontag | By | GLRC, GBRC | PW, IW | George Stambolian | | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Gertrude Stein | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Cecilia Tan | | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Sara Teasdale | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, ~IW |
Larry Townsend | | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Urvashi Vaid | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Carl Van Vechten | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Paul Verlaine | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Gore Vidal | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW, IW | Alice Walker | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Hugh Walpole | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Sylvia Townsend Warner | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Patricia Nell Warren | By | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Sarah Waters | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | | |
Evelyn Waugh | By, About | GLRC, GBRC |
IW, ~IW | Andrea Weiss | | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Walt Whitman | By, About | GLRC, GBRC
| IW, IW | Edmund White
| By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW, IW | Mel White | By, About | GBRC | PW | Patrick White | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Oscar Wilde | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW | Thornton Wilder | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | ~IW, IW | Tennessee Williams | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Doric Wilson | | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Jeanette Winterson | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | PW | Jacqueline Woodson | By
| GLRC, GBRC | IW | Virginia Woolf | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Doug Wright |
By | GBRC | IW, IW , IW | Marguerite Yourcenar | By, About | GLRC, GBRC | IW, IW | Mark Zubro | By | GBRC | IW |
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