WLindsay Gordon Anderson was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if...., which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1969 and marked Malcolm McDowell's cinematic debut. He is also notable, though not a professional actor, for playing a minor role in the Academy Award-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. McDowell produced a 2007 documentary about his experiences with Anderson, Never Apologize.
WThomas Baty, also known by the name Irene Clyde, was an English transgender lawyer and expert on international law who spent much of his career working for the Imperial Japanese government. He published Beatrice the Sixteenth, a 1909 utopian science fiction novel, set in an egalitarian postgender society. He also co-edited Urania, a privately printed feminist gender studies journal, alongside Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Dorothy Cornish, and Jessey Wade.
WJay Bernard, FRSL, is a British writer, artist, film programmer, and activist from London, UK. Bernard has been a programmer at BFI Flare since 2014, co-editor of Oxford Poetry, and their fiction, non-fiction, and art has been published in many national and international magazines and newspapers.
WKatharine Burdekin was a British novelist who wrote speculative fiction concerned with social and spiritual matters. She was the younger sister of Rowena Cade, creator of the Minack Theatre in Cornwall. Several of her novels could be categorised as feminist utopian/dystopian fiction. She also wrote under the name Kay Burdekin and under the pseudonym Murray Constantine. Daphne Patai unraveled "Murray Constantine's" true identity while doing research on utopian and dystopian fiction in the mid-1980s.
WDavid Cecil is a British theatre producer. He was arrested in Uganda over a play which references homosexuality on 17 September 2012.
WGeorge Norman Douglas was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind. His travel books such as his 1915 Old Calabria were also appreciated for the quality of their writing.
WNina Hamnett was a Welsh artist and writer, and an expert on sailors' chanteys, who became known as the Queen of Bohemia.
WJohn Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey was an English courtier and political writer and memoirist who was the eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, by his second wife, Elizabeth. He was known as Lord Hervey from 1723, upon the death of his elder half-brother, Carr, the only son of his father's first wife, Isabella, but Lord Hervey never became Earl of Bristol, as he predeceased his father.
WCraig Jones is a former Royal Navy Officer and LGBT rights defender in the UK armed forces. Jones was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 New Years Honours List for services to Equality and Human Rights in the Armed Forces.
WRoz Kaveney is a British writer, critic, and poet, best known for her critical works about pop culture and for being a core member of the Midnight Rose collective. Kaveney's works include fiction and non-fiction, poetry, reviewing, and editing.
WClifford Henry Benn Kitchin was a British novelist of the early twentieth century.
WEdward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry in poem.
WVernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget. She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel.
WEddie Linden, also known as Eddie S. Linden, is a Scottish poet, literary magazine editor and political activist. From 1969 to 2004, he published and edited the poetry magazine Aquarius, which, according to The Irish Post, made him "one of the leading figures on the international poetry scene". The journal was significant in the growth of British, Irish and international poets, and has been described as Linden's "crowning gift to literature — the nurturing and developing of poetic talent".
WAnthony Bernard Duncan Mayes was a British broadcaster, university dean and author who founded America's first suicide prevention hotline.
WHarold Edward Monro was an English poet born in Brussels. As the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, he helped many poets to bring their work before the public.
WPatrick Ness is a British-American author, journalist, lecturer and screenwriter. Born in the United States, Ness moved to London and holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls.
WRictor Norton is an American writer on literary and cultural history, particularly gay history. He is based in London, England.
WPeter Lloyd Price is a British media personality and radio presenter based in Liverpool, England. He is best known for the Sunday night talk radio show Pete Price: Unzipped, which was broadcast across sister stations Radio City and Radio City Talk. The show aired live from 10 pm to 2 am and followed an open forum format. Price also had a weeknight phone in, Late Night City which aired live between 22.00h and 02.00h, from Monday to Thursday and was simulcast on Radio City Talk and Radio City 2. In 2017 Price announced that he was cutting back his show from 5 nights a week to just Sunday night. From 2017-2020 he hosted Pete Price’s Sunday Best at 10pm - 1am every Sunday, where his weekly phone in guest for the last 13 years had been Dr. Angie McCartney, step-mother to Sir Paul, who lives in Los Angeles and provided the show's Hollywood Gossip live from LA. Pete now broadcasts on Liverpool Live Radio every Sunday night at 10pm till 1am.
WAdelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. Procter never married. She became unhealthy, possibly due to her charity work, and died of tuberculosis at the age of 38.
WMarc-André Raffalovich was a French poet and writer on homosexuality, best known today for his patronage of the arts and for his lifelong relationship with the poet John Gray.
WIan Iqbal Rashid is a poet, screenwriter and filmmaker known in particular for his volumes of poetry, for the BBC TV series This Life and the feature films Touch of Pink and How She Move.
WJon Savage is an English writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, England's Dreaming, published in 1991.
WSir Peter Levin Shaffer was an English playwright and screenwriter. He wrote numerous award-winning plays, of which several were adapted into films.
WAatish Ali Taseer is a British-American writer and journalist.
WHoratio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.
WMikey Walsh is a British writer, columnist, and LGBT activist, best known for his series of autobiographical books.
WJames Wharton is the author of Out in the Army: My life as a gay soldier and Something for the Weekend': Life in the chemsex underworld and an LGBT activist. Wharton was born in Wrexham on the first of January 1987, and grew up in the nearby village of Gwersyllt. In 2009, he garnered attention by featuring on the cover of Soldier Magazine – the official monthly publication of the British Army – as an openly gay trooper in the Blues and Royals. Wharton came out as gay to his regiment in 2005, aged 18 and just six years after the army's discrimination against gay people was declared a breach of human rights by the European Court of Human Rights. Before 2000, Wharton could have been court-martialled.
WPatrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987.
WDame Jacqueline Wilson is an English novelist known for her popular children's literature. Her novels have been notable for featuring controversial themes such as adoption and divorce without alienating her large readership. Four of her books appear in the BBC's The Big Read poll of the 100 most popular books in the UK. Since her debut novel in 1969, Wilson has written over 100 books. In 2010, it was revealed that she is the most borrowed author in libraries across the UK.
WLudwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.