The Queer Canon Plato's Symposium as High Camp The Homophobic Imagination Critical Censorship of Gay Literature William Shakespeare's Sonnets Pastoral Homoeroticism and Richard Barnfield, the Affectionate Shepherd (PDF file) Queering Andrew Marvell Walt Whitman, Prophet of Gay Liberation Herman Melville's Novels Walter Pater's "Hard Gemlike Flame" Henry James's The Turn of the Screw Andre Gide's Recovery of the Old Adam Jean Cocteau's White Paper on Homophobia Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Physical Impairment as a Metaphor for Homoerotic Love CITATION: If you cite this Web page, please use the following form of citation: Rictor Norton, "The Queer Canon", Gay History and Literature, 20 May 2013, updated 6 March 2018 <http://rictornorton.co.uk/canon.htm>. Return to Gay History and Literature