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20.5 Tom Spanbauer: Read a book by Tom Spanbauer or any book by an LGBTQ author. For this task, we will only accept authors included on this list: [Note: you can add to this list by posting here with a link to identification of the author as LGBTQ.]

Becky Chambers

From this wikipedia entry:


'Chambers has lived in Iceland and Scotland before returning to California, where she currently resides with her wife, Berglaug Asmundardottir,[1][14] in Humboldt County.[3]'

David Leavitt



Leavitt, who is gay, has frequently explored gay issues in his works.

Chinelo Okparanta



I¡¯ve also joined Lambda¡¯s LGBTQ Writers in Schools program ...

Radclyffe Hall

Alexis Hall

Val McDermid


If you need more information for any of these, please let me know. I think the first two are clear from their GR profiles, and Val McDermid is well known in the UK but perhaps not elsewhere, so I've linked a press article about her relationships.

Masako Togawa



Masako Togawa (‘õ´¨²ý×Ó, Togawa Masako) (23 March 1931 ¨C 26 April 2016) was a Japanese Chanson singer/songwriter, actress, feminist, novelist, lesbian icon, former night club owner, metropolitan city planning panelist, and music educator.

Trans author Jennifer Finney Boylan:
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Miriam Margolyes
"She is a lesbian,[47] and referred to herself as a "dyke" live on national television and in front of Australian prime minister Julia Gillard in 2013"

Cher

She is included in Wikipedia's Gay Icons list and she said she had a lesbian affair:

Sam Sax

See Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ bio. /author/show...

Jean Cocteau - the section in his Wikipedia bio headed Private Life begins "Jean Cocteau never hid his bisexuality."

James Ijames

Saeed Jones

In his Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Award winning memoir, How We Fight For Our Lives, "Jones...tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South."

Martha Shelley

- she's primarily known as a lesbian activist and writer

Nghi Vo


'She defines her sexuality as queer.[3]"

Elif Shafak

Silas House

Tomasz Jedrowski

"Jedrowski was born in Germany to Polish parents and currently lives with his husband in the French countryside. "