📚 Modern LGBTQ+ Poets & Authors Making Waves Right Now 🌈✨
It’s one thing to write beautifully — it’s another to change the culture while you’re doing it. This Pride Month, we’re spotlighting some incredible LGBTQ+ writers whose work is reshaping literature, amplifying queer narratives, and inspiring readers worldwide.
Writers You Need On Your Shelf
1. Danez Smith
Poet, performer, and one of the most arresting voices in contemporary poetry. Their books Don’t Call Us Dead and Homie tackle race, queerness, and survival with tenderness and ferocity.
Author of Freshwater, The Death of Vivek Oji, and Bitter. Emezi blends speculative fiction with deeply personal themes of gender, identity, and ancestral legacy.
3. Ocean Vuong
His novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and poetry collection Time Is a Mother unravel memory, love, and queerness in lyrical, gut-wrenching prose.
4. Saeed Jones
Poet and memoirist (How We Fight for Our Lives) whose work explores Black queer identity with both sharp wit and aching honesty.
Writer, performer, and advocate redefining gender expression and body politics in their book Beyond the Gender Binary and spoken word performances.
Why It Matters:
Queer writers aren’t just offering representation — they’re expanding the boundaries of storytelling, insisting on nuance, joy, rage, and radical selfhood in their work.
This Pride Month and beyond, support these authors, read their stories, and share them with your community.
Who else should we spotlight? Drop your recs in the comments or DM us on IG @724presscollective.
