- Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name "Tennessee" was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and his father's background in Tennessee. - Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947 in Endicott, New York) is an American social critic, intellectual, author and teacher. She is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paglia completed her undergraduate studies at Binghamton University and later, her graduate studies at Yale. - Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg (born 1949) is a transgender activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg is a high ranking member of the Workers World Party and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper. Feinberg's writings on LGBT history, "Lavender & Red," frequently appear in the "Workers World" newspaper. Feinberg's partner is the prominent lesbian poet-activist Minnie Bruce Pratt. - Christopher Isherwood
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (August 26, 1904 - January 4, 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist. - Susie Bright
Susannah "Susie" Bright (also known as Susie Sexpert) (born March 25, 1958, Arlington, Virginia) is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality. She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist. She has a weekly program entitled "In Bed with Susie Bright" distributed through audible.com, where she discusses a variety of social, freedom of speech and sex-related topics. - Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels "Mrs Dalloway" (1925), "To the Lighthouse" (1927), and "Orlando" (1928), … - Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including "She Came to Stay" and "The Mandarins", and for her 1949 treatise "The Second Sex", a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. - Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980) (pronounced) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. Barthes' work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiology, existentialism, Marxism and post-structuralism. - Judith Butler
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and the present chair of the Rhetoric Department. Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, … - Jesse Liberty
Jesse Liberty (born July 10, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York), now living in Massachusetts. Liberty is a best-selling author on Microsoft .NET and has written over a dozen books on .NET, web development and object oriented programming. He has also written dozens of articles for both computer journals and newspapers on both technical and non-technical topics. Currently: Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation. Silverlight Development Team. - Truman Garcia Capote
Truman Capote was born in New Orleans on the 30th September 1924. Born as "Truman Streckfus Persons " to a 16yr old beauty queen and a salesman Capote was to become one of America 's most controversial authors, a repuation he gained both for his literary works and for his flamboyant life style . - Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Xon Burroughs (born Christopher Robison on October 23, 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer, known for his "New York Times" bestselling memoir "Running with Scissors" (2002), which spawned a feature film of the same name. - W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden IPA: ;, who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form, and content. The central themes of his poetry are: personal love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, … - Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker and television personality. The former comedy collaborator of Hugh Laurie, his renowned intellect has most recently led to the success of television panel game "QI", of which he is host. - Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949) is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She was raised in Greenville, South Carolina, the first child of her 15-year-old, unwed mother. She is legally blind in her right eye. - Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American writer, best known for his 1998 novel "The Hours", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. - Greg Louganis
Gregory "Greg" Efthimios Louganis (born January 29, 1960 in El Cajon, California) is an American diver. Athlete best known for winning back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3m and 10m diving events. He received the James E. Sullivan Award in 1984 as the top amateur athlete in the United States. - Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers a mere four years after his death, he is viewed as the first urban poet. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and Realism, incorporating both views in his works. His works have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. - Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her critically acclaimed novel "The Color Purple". - Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson is a Canadian radio broadcaster and author. Richardson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1955 and received his B.A. from the University of Winnipeg in 1976. After spending a year in Montpellier, he moved to Vancouver, where he completed a Master of Library Science. Richardson has been a broadcaster on CBC Radio One, beginning in 1992 as a regular contributor and guest host on Vicki Gabereau's show. When Gabereau left to host a television show on CTV in 1997, … - Patrick Califia
Patrick Califia (formerly known as Pat Califia; born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas) is a writer about women's sexuality and of erotic fiction, nonfiction essays, and poetry. Califia is a bisexual transman - Valerie Solanas
Valerie Jean Solanas was an American radical feminist writer who struggled to be recognized for her writing but became famous for shooting the artist Andy Warhol in 1968. She wrote the "SCUM Manifesto", an essay on patriarchal culture. - Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. The offspring of a prominent political family, Gore is an outspoken critic of the American political establishment. Gore wrote the "The City and the Pillar" in 1948, which created controversy as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous homosexuality. - Kevin Williamson
Kevin Meade Williamson (born March 14 1965) is an American screenwriter best known for his screen works of "Scream" and "Dawson's Creek". - Kate Bornstein
Kate Bornstein is a transgender author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist. Bornstein, born Albert Bornstein on March 15, 1948, underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1986. : "I know I'm not a man...and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either...The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." - Kate Bornstein in "Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, … - Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10,1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis, and pioneering achievements in the field of blog journalism. Sullivan is known for his unusual personal-political identity (HIV-positive, gay, self-described conservative often at odds with other conservatives, and practising Roman Catholic). - George Sand
Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and feminist. - Henri Nouwen
The internationally renowned priest and author, respected professor and beloved pastor Henri Nouwen wrote over 40 books on the spiritual life. He corresponded regularly in English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish with hundreds of friends and reached out to thousands through his Eucharistic celebrations, lectures and retreats. Since his death in 1996, ever-increasing numbers of readers, writers, teachers and seekers have been guided by his literary legacy. - Christopher Durang
Christopher Durang (born 2 January 1949) is a contemporary playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s. - Bruce Benderson
Bruce Benderson is an American author who lives in New York. He was a contemporary of Camille Paglia at William Nottingham High School (1964) in Syracuse, New York and then Binghamton University (1968). He is today a novelist and essayist, widely published in France, less so in the United States. His book-length essay, "Toward the New Degeneracy" (1997), looks at New York’s Times Square, where rich and poor once mixed in a lively atmosphere of drugs, sex, … - Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist. - John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963 in El Paso, Texas) is an American writer, actor, and director. He is best known for his motion pictures "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "Shortbus". - Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul use modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, … - Tom Limoncelli
Tom Limoncelli (born December 2, 1968) is a noted system administrator, author, speaker and bisexual activist. A system administrator and network engineer since 1987, he speaks at conferences around the world on topics ranging from firewall security to time management. He is the author of "Time Management for System Administrators" from O'Reilly; along with Christine Hogan, … - W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25 1874 - December 16 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and theatre writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s. - Wayne Besen
Wayne Besen is a gay rights advocate in the United States. He is a former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign. Besen, a gay man, was never personally involved in the ex-gay movement, but says he has interviewed hundreds of former and current ex-gays. In 2000, he photographed ex-gay activist John Paulk in a Washington D.C. gay bar. Paulk claimed he was simply there to use the washroom, … - Edward Albee
Edward G. (Woody) Connette, Pro-bono Legal Counsel - Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as his work on the history of sexuality. - Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim. - Diana L. Eck
Diana Eck is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University where she is chair of the Religion Department. Her academic work has a dual focus-India and America-and in both cases she is interested in the challenges of religious pluralism in a multi-religious society. Her work on India includes studies of popular religion and pilgrimage including Banaras: City of Light, Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India, and India: A Sacred Geography (forthcoming).
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