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1054259 No.1054259 [Reply] [Original]

Who are the best homosexual writers?

>> No.1054262

Jean Genet for the win.

>> No.1054265

Oscar Wilde
Marcel Proust
André Gide
Yukio Mishima
William Shakespeare
Arthur Rimbaud
Paul Verlaine

>> No.1054323

Needs moar lesbos

>> No.1054321

>>1054265
Rimbaud gave up bumfun though. Getting shot by your lover tends to do that.

>> No.1054326

When I think about it basically any writer who doesn't appresh a spot of gay sex can go kick rocks.

>> No.1054330

Dostoievsky.

>> No.1054334

>>1054323
Kathy Acker

>> No.1054338
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>>1054321
He stopped writing at age 20 though

He's cooler than every one of you

>> No.1054339

>>1054265

how sure are you about Shakespeare?

>> No.1054345
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>>1054321
>>1054338
I love this fucking movie, it's amazing.

>> No.1054348
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1054348

This man.
A million times.
Also Sarah Waters.

>> No.1054349
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>>1054339
You didn't know he was gay? Then why did Ian McKellen play as King Lear?

>> No.1054351

>>1054345
I N C E P T I O N

>> No.1054355

>>1054349
whoa i just discovered stan lee is gay

>> No.1054357
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1054357

proooooooooooooooust

>> No.1054356

Oscar Wilde is THE gay writer. Also Rimbaud is THE gay poet. And Total Eclipse is a good movie.

>> No.1054358
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>>1054351

>> No.1054360

>>1054323

Patricia Highsmith
Colette

>> No.1054361

>>1054360

Sappho

>> No.1054362

David Sedaris

>> No.1054363

>>1054323
Joyce Carol Oates

>> No.1054369

Burroughs for the number of times he used the word jism...

...man sure loved his jism.

>> No.1054371
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Gore Vidal

>> No.1054380

>no one mentions Wittgenstein, the only good gay writer

>> No.1054388

I just went looking for a super gay picture of Clive Barker, and what do I stumble upon?

Somebody is apparently remaking Hellraiser.

FFFFFFFFUUUUU-

>> No.1054390

Simone de Beauvoir

>> No.1054391

oscar fucking wilde

i cried as sibyl vane killed herself :(

>> No.1054392

just out of general curiosity... the sexual preference of the writer matters why?

>> No.1054393

Ayn Rand

>> No.1054394

Virginia Wolf

>> No.1054395

nobody said Capote yet?

>> No.1054396

>>1054392

imagine the picture of dorian gray as written by an heterosexual oscar wilde.

>> No.1054397

GINSBERG!

>> No.1054398

>>1054392
>just out of general curiosity... the sexual preference of the writer matters why?
I think anon was asking for gay subject matter, or maybe OP is gay and hopes to gain perspective from smart people who he shares a trait with

>>1054396
>imagine the picture of dorian gray as written by an heterosexual oscar wilde.
that's funny

>> No.1054402

I'm staying in my room at my parents' house tonight and I noticed that I have a killer freshman year of college ambiguously bi Waugh/Woolf/Chabon bookpile sitting on top of my ancient VCR

>> No.1054450
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1054450

>>1054397

>> No.1054468
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>>1054265
mfw I just realized Mishima was gay.

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>>1054468
That's one of the central points of his works

If you didn't know he like to take other mens erect penis inside his buttocks then something's wrong

>> No.1054493

>>1054483
Something like I've never actually read anything by him.

>> No.1054511

frederick douglas

>> No.1054513

Manuel Puig

>> No.1054526
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1054526

He was the best.

>> No.1054551

Walt Whitman.

And Michael Savage (he has wrtten a few books.)

>> No.1054590

>>1054551
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDqq_13IIyo

>> No.1054599

Reinaldo Arenas

>> No.1054626

Gertrude Stein