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The Closet Canon
Spotlighting the lives and stories of writers across history: voices that were silenced, stigmatised, or quietly sidelined.
Because the literary canon is incomplete without them.
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James Baldwin
He was told a gay novel would destroy him. He published it and outlived them all.
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William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s greatest love poetry was written to a man. The world has spent four centuries pretending otherwise.
Sappho
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The word ‘lesbian’ comes from her island. Almost none of her poetry survives.
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