Category talk:Gay writers

	LGBTQ portal This category is of interest to WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies, which tries to ensure comprehensive and factual coverage of all LGBTQ-related issues on Wikipedia. For more information, or to get involved, please visit the project page or contribute to the discussion.LGBTQ+ studiesWikipedia:WikiProject LGBTQ+ studiesTemplate:WikiProject LGBTQ+ studiesLGBTQ+ studies articles
	This category is supported by the LGBTQ+ Person task force.

Biography: Arts and Entertainment

	Biography portal This category is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This category is supported by the arts and entertainment work group.

Literature

This category is within the scope of WikiProject Literature, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Literature on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LiteratureWikipedia:WikiProject LiteratureTemplate:WikiProject LiteratureLiterature articles

Untitled

James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Adam Haslett. Some who can edits lists, please add them. Ken Ireland

Could DENTON WELCH be added to the list of gay writers? I'm too much of a novice here to have sussed out how to do it yet - Cheers

Hey, is Michael Cunningham gay? If he is, then I think he should be included on this list... --little Alex 04:15, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

I added most of the people currently in this category, and as far as I'm concerned, if you can find evidence that he is gay and either there is something in his article mentioning that and its relationship to his work, or if not you add such a paragraph or section or whatever, I'm all for his inclusion. The reason I'd like to see something in the article specifically mentioning his sexuality before he is added is that a consensus was reached elsewhere that, when dealing with categories involving people's sexuality this was the best way to go (because its something people often get upset over, etc.). -Seth Mahoney 00:03, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

Please add Somerset Maugham. thanks (tn2ak2001)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tn2ak2001 (talk • contribs) 23:34, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Augusten Burroughs

Other disciplines

Moved the following text here for the time being:

Those who have written in science or other academic disciplines should be placed in other categories (scientists, philosophers, sexologists, etc).

I agree that maybe we should break this up a little more - for instance, many of the people on this list are academics, several of them are philosophers, historians, etc. I'm just not sure its going to be this easy. What do we do with gay men who wrote literature and philosophy, for example? Also, before we add notices like this we should be sure the appropriate categories exist and link to them. Also, rather than an "etc.", we should make a full list of appropriate categories, so people adding articles to these categories know which ones exist and so on. Finally, with writers as a general category, adding people is fairly non-controversial: we have a case for their placement here. We could make similar arguments for philosophers and sexologists. I'm not so sure that's the case with, say, scientists and mathemeticians. -Seth Mahoney 20:20, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

Is it possible for Wikipedia to make a category tag that references a sub-topic on a page? Would be nice to have this page with sub-cats for different types of writers. That way, all the writers stay together, but people have more chance of working out which they might be interested in following up the entry on. -Fontgirl 19:38, Mar 01, 2005 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're getting at, but I think the closest we can do is make, for example, Category:Gay writers a subcategory of Category:Writers (which has already been done). This allows the reader to follow the link to Category:Gay writers and then move up the category tree from there. Alternatively, we can have multiple categories on a page, for example Category:Gay writers and Category:American writers. However, in cases where both a subcategory and a parent category fit (like Category:Gay writers and Category:Writers, use of both is discouraged - instead, the consensus is to add only the subcategory. -Seth Mahoney 06:58, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

I think Fontgirl just meant that "gay" describes the writer more than the work genre, i.e. Nicola Griffith is a lesbian writer (I think), yes, but that doesn't say anything about what genre her work is in (SF/F and then mystery/thriller/noir).--little Alex 16:54, 17 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

May I suggest an addition?

Bryan Fuller. I'm don't recognise the system of using numbers for the names on the editing page.

Please sign your posts by adding -~~~~ at the end.

I'm not sure what you mean by "using numbers for the names on the editing page". If you're referring to the method for adding articles to categories, its pretty simple. For example, if you were adding Latoya Jackson to Category:Gay writers you would edit the Latoya Jackson page and, at the bottom, put [[Category:Gay writers]] in the list of categories in alphebetical order. -Seth Mahoney 23:43, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

Ginsberg

The rather famous author/poet of the Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg is not on the list, as he should be. I don't have the capability to edit the page, whoever does should do so. The Way 05:13, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

What about Bret Easton Ellis. Author of american Psycho, Less than Zero, Rules of Attraction.

Sherman Alexie

Is this category exclusively for men who are gay in real life? If this is the case, Sherman Alexie doesn't really belong in it. His article acknowledges that he identifies as straight.Bjones 12:03, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Chabon

...is also a straight writer who deals with gay issues. He's married to a woman.

Chabon is bisexual and he has talked about this in interviews and in an essay he wrote about the mysteries of pittsburgh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.103.102.92 (talk) 04:47, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For straight writers?

Yeah, this is an interesting issue - there should probably be some discussion on it. Should self-identified straight writers who deal with gay issues be included in this category? My first inclination is to either eliminate this set of categories and replace them with Category: Writers who deal with LGBT issues or something similar, or to make Category: Writers who deal with LGBT issues (or something similar) a parent category of Category: Gay writers, and move all the straight people there. Eve Sedgwick is another interesting person as far as this sort of thing goes - she self-identifies as non-straight, is married to a man, and writes quite a bit about gay issues. Where does she belong? -Seth Mahoney 16:24, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lesbian_writers

There should be a link to Category:Lesbian_writers, but I'm not sure how to do that without actually adding the page to that category. Njál 15:47, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Listing people on sexual orientation should not be allowed

See Talk:List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people#Listing people on sexual orientations? shouldn't this page be deleted?. Political, religious, racial origins & sexual orientations shouldn't be listed on Wikipedia because this constitutes a breach of prviacy. Lapaz 03:36, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This has already been discussed elsewhere, although that particular point was never brought up. Nonetheless, I can't see how such listings constitute a breach of privacy if the person in question publicly identified as such, which is a requirement for the application of this category (and similar ones). -Smahoney 19:16, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For living writers then the guidance of WP:BLP should be followed. If there is a authoritative source with a non-controversial statement that the writer under discussion was gay then there should be no issue.—Ashleyvh (talk) 07:47, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

James Robert Baker

Yet another question about how to edit this page. I wanted to add this article to the list, but can't. Baker not only identified himself as a gay man in numerous articles and interviews, but he also wrote several novels about about gay issues. Jeffpw 10:26, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category hierarchy

Anyone object to adding a hierarchy map to the category page? Something like:
Category:LGBT

Category:LGBT culture
- Category:LGBT literature
  - Category:LGBT writers
    - Category:Gay writers

I have been finding it quite confusing choosing what categories to apply and this sort of map is quite helpful.-- Ashley VH 11:05, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

William S. Burroughs?

Where's he on the list? He was gay. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.63.201.84 (talk) 05:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Girls can be gay.

I know, it's just like this crazy thing I guess. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Banaranaram (talk • contribs) 00:00, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Adrianne Rich

Wonderful poet "rose wet cave" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.13.103 (talk) 03:17, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please add Maurice Sendak per this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/arts/design/10sendak.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by MsBoyce02 (talk • contribs) 02:31, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]