The works of García Lorca, internationally recognized as Spain's most prominent lyric poet and dramatist of the twentieth century, are filled with thinly veiled homosexual motifs and themes.
There has always been homosexual involvement in American musical theatre and a homosexual sensibility even in straight musicals, and recently the Broadway musical has welcomed openly homosexual themes and situations.
Best known for his genius in art and architecture, Michelangelo was also an accomplished author of homoerotic poetry.
The African-American gay male literary tradition consists of a substantial body of texts and includes some of the most gifted writers of the twentieth century.
Combining elements of incongruity, theatricality, and exaggeration, camp is a form of humor that helps homosexuals cope with a hostile environment.
Langston Hughes, whose literary legacy is enormous and varied, was closeted, but homosexuality was an important influence on his literary imagination, and many of his poems may be read as gay texts.
James Baldwin, a pioneering figure in twentieth-century literature, wrote sustained and articulate challenges to American racism and mandatory heterosexuality.
Oscar Wilde is important both as an accomplished writer and as a symbolic figure who exemplified a way of being homosexual at a pivotal moment in the emergence of gay consciousness.
Virginia Spencer Carr.
Virginia Spencer Carr, a literary scholar best known for her biographies of Carson McCullers and Paul Bowles, died on April 10, 2012 at her home in Lynn, Massachusetts. Carr's 1975 biography of McCullers, The Lonely Hunter, remains the standard work on the writer's life.
Carr's biographies of McCullers, John Dos Passos, and Paul Bowles were characterized by exhaustive research and attention to detail, particularly in discovering the sources of literary works in the experiences of the authors.
After receiving her Ph.D. from Florida State University, Carr taught at a number of colleges and universities, but was especially associated with Georgia State University, where she taught for two decades.
Carr is survived by her partner Mary E. Robbins, three daughters, and seven grandchildren.