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Writing

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"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe,” said the French novelist Gustave Flaubert. Poets, novelists, playwrights, and creative writers of all kinds have been interpreting the world around them through writing for millennia. LGBTQ+ authors use their writing to ask questions about themselves and their world, to reveal themselves or hide themselves, to connect with other members of the community, and to understand what they believe.

Collection Information

For more information on the materials in this gallery, see their holding institutions.

Claremont Colleges Special Collections & Archives
Old Love Story

The Huntington Library
Christopher Isherwood, typescript outline for the unrealized book of a musical based on Isherwood's Good-bye to Berlin and John van Druten's I Am a Camera
Christopher Isherwood, typescript second draft of A Single Man
Cover for Gravedigger by Joseph Hansen
Eloise Klein Healy, typescript draft of poem, “There Are No Words for the Sexual Acts of Lesbians”
The Gay Times, interview with Joseph Hansen titled “Simple Lessons”
Joseph Hansen, letter to the Los Angeles Times editor
Joseph Hansen, “Why I wrote Early Graves”
Newspaper clipping from photograph album showing Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden
Unattributed photograph of Zoe Akins
Willa Cather, letter to Zoë Akins

Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Flier advertising A Different Light bookstore's 1989 Gay Writer Series events

Philosophical Research Society
Cover and Dedication from The Treasure of Heaven
Letter from Marie Corelli to unknown recipient
My "Little Bit"
Portrait of Marie Corelli
The Soul of Lilith

University of California Riverside Special Collections & University Archives
Cover of Future Imperfect
Jody Scott letter to Oprah Winfrey, draft
The World Book of Naders

Contents of this tag:

  1. My "Little Bit" , 1919
  2. Portrait of Marie Corelli, 1908
  3. Cover for Gravedigger by Joseph Hansen, 1982
  4. Lesbian Writers series, 1991
  5. The Soul of Lilith, 1892
  6. Joseph Hansen, letter to the Los Angeles Times editor, 1984
  7. Joseph Hansen, “Why I wrote Early Graves,” circa 1987
  8. Letter from Marie Corelli to unknown recipient, undated
  9. The Gay Times, interview with Joseph Hansen titled “Simple Lessons,” January 1987
  10. Cover and Dedication from The Treasure of Heaven, 1906
  11. Poster for Carolyn Weathers : shitkickers & other Texas stories
  12. Eloise Klein Healy, typescript draft of poem, “There Are No Words for the Sexual Acts of Lesbians,” circa 1984
  13. Unattributed photograph of Zoe Akins, circa 1930s
  14. Willa Cather, letter to Zoë Akins, May 4, 1918
  15. Flier advertising A Different Light bookstore's 1989 Gay Writer Series events
  16. Cover of Future Imperfect, 2010
  17. Old Love Story, 1986
  18. The World Book of Naders, undated
  19. Christopher Isherwood, typescript second draft of A Single Man, 1963
  20. Jody Scott letter to Oprah Winfrey, draft, December 21, 1999
  21. Newspaper clipping from photograph album showing Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, ca. 1930s
  22. Christopher Isherwood, typescript outline for the unrealized book of a musical based on Isherwood's Good-bye to Berlin and John van Druten's I Am a Camera, 1959