LGBTQ+ Authors Word Search

Find writers from across LGBTQ+ literary history, from Sappho and Oscar Wilde to contemporary novelists and poets.

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About the LGBTQ+ Authors Word Search

This puzzle features LGBTQ+ writers across eras and genres, including poets, novelists, essayists, and graphic memoirists. Look for names such as Sappho, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel, and Ocean Vuong. It’s a good fit for readers, literature students, and anyone exploring the many voices that have shaped LGBTQ+ writing.

All 46 words in this puzzle

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  • Baldwin
  • Bannon
  • Barnes
  • Bechdel
  • Brown
  • Capote
  • Cunningham
  • Doty
  • Emezi
  • Feinberg
  • Fitzpatrick
  • Forrest
  • Forster
  • Gay
  • Ginsberg
  • Hall
  • Holleran
  • Hughes
  • Isherwood
  • James Baldwin
  • Jones
  • Larsen
  • Leavitt
  • Lorde
  • Machado
  • Maupin
  • McQuiston
  • Monette
  • Nelson
  • Nin
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Paglia
  • Radclyffe Hall
  • Rich
  • Rule
  • Sappho
  • Sedgwick
  • Sontag
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Vuong
  • Waters
  • White
  • Whitman
  • Wilde
  • Winterson
  • Woolf

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