#it's ridiculous to even bother listing sappho but also some people claim she was 'writing from a male perspective' which??;

[conchobarbarian]

I’m not saying that gay people are inherently more artistic or profound, but I am saying that like 80% of all pre-20th c writers & artists you’ve ever heard of weren’t straight

#& of course plenty of 20th & 21st century artists but #y'all know i love those historical gays #also mostly i know about writers bc visual art is not my medium #the list includes: oscar wilde; leonardo da vinci; lord byron (more like biron am i right); e.m. forster #walt whitman; william shakespeare; the earl of rochester; plato & his bros; virginia woolf; #it's ridiculous to even bother listing sappho but also some people claim she was 'writing from a male perspective' which??; #herman melville; arthur conan doyle; d.h. lawrence; t.e. lawrence; hans christian andersen; #& so fucking many authors but i'm bored of making this list #oh! also p.g. wodehouse. he was ace #and alfred lord tennyson who was who i was thinking about when I made this post to begin with lmao