Writing
| Name | Life | Comments | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon Stewart Anderson | (c. 1958–1991) | Canadian writer whose novel The Toronto You Are Leaving was published by his mother 15 years after his death. | |
| Reinaldo Arenas | (1943–1990) | Cuban novelist who committed suicide while living in New York. | |
| Jean-Paul Aron | (1925–1988) | French writer and journalist; One of the first people of renown in France to die of AIDS. | |
| Isaac Asimov | (1920–1992) | Russian-born American author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. He became infected with HIV through a tainted blood transfusion during his 1983 triple heart bypass surgery. | |
| Simon Bailey | (1955–1995) | British Anglican priest and writer. | |
| John Boswell | (1947–1994) | American historian and a professor at Yale University. | |
| Harold Brodkey | (1930–1996) | American author whose works include the memoir This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death, which documents his battle with AIDS. | |
| Bruce Chatwin | (1940–1989) | British novelist and travel writer, best known for the influential In Patagonia. | |
| Cyril Collard | (1957–1993) | French writer, actor and director of his autobiographical novel and film Les Nuits fauves (Savage Nights). | |
| Timothy Conigrave | (1959–1994) | Australian playwright and author of memoir Holding the Man. | |
| Sam D'Allesandro | (1956–1988) | American poet and fiction writer. | |
| Serge Daney | (1944–1992) | French influential film critic. | |
| Nicholas Dante | (1941–1991) | American Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright best known for the musical A Chorus Line | |
| Tory Dent | (1958–2005) | American poet, art critic and commentator on the AIDS crisis. | |
| David B. Feinberg | (1956–1994) | American writer and AIDS activist with ACT UP. | |
| Michel Foucault | (1926–1984) | French philosopher and writer; known for his critical studies of various social institutions. | |
| Jaime Gil de Biedma | (1929–1990) | Spanish poet | |
| Hervé Guibert | (1955–1990) | French writer and filmmaker. | |
| Essex Hemphill | (1957–1995) | American poet and activist. | |
| Guy Hocquenghem | (1944–1988) | French writer and philosopher | |
| Arturo Islas | (1938–1991) | Mexican-American professor of English and writer. | |
| Larry Kramer | (born 1935) | American dramatist, author and gay rights activist. | |
| Didier Lestrade | (born 1958) | French journalist and author. | |
| Arnold Lobel | (1933–1987) | American children's book author and illustrator | |
| Peter McGehee | (1955–1991) | American-born Canadian writer | |
| Peter McWilliams | (1940–2000) | American writer and libertarian activist. | |
| James Merrill | (1926–1995) | American Pulitzer Prize winning poet. | |
| Ernest Matthew Mickler | (1940–1988) | American author of the cookbook White Trash Cooking. | |
| Paul Monette | (1945–1995) | American novelist and poet. | |
| John Preston | (1945–1994) | American author of gay erotica and an editor of gay nonfiction anthologies. | |
| Manuel Ramos Otero | (1948–1990) | Gay Puerto Rican short story writer | |
| Vito Russo | (1946–1990) | American gay activist, film historian and author. | |
| Barbara Samson | (born 1975) | French poet who was infected with HIV at the age of seventeen. Her story was made into the French television film Being Seventeen. | |
| Severo Sarduy | (1937–1993) | Gay Cuban poet and author | |
| Dick Scanlan | (born 1961) | American librettist, writer and actor. | |
| Nicholas Schaffner | (1953–1991) | American author, wrote books about Pink Floyd and The Beatles. | |
| Jay Scott | (1949–1993) | Canadian film critic. | |
| Randy Shilts | (1951–1994) | American journalist and author; wrote the book And the Band Played On which documented the outbreak of AIDS in the United States. | |
| Ian Stephens | (died 1996) | Canadian poet and spoken word artist (Diary of a Trademark) | |
| Andrew Sullivan | (born 1963) | British-American journalist and blogger. | |
| Pier Vittorio Tondelli | (1955-1981) | Italian novelist. One of the first famous people to die for AIDS in Italy. | |
| Yvonne Vera | (1964–2005) | Zimbabwean author. | |
| Matthew Ward | (1951–1990) | American English/French translator noted for his 1989 rendition of Albert Camus' The Stranger. | |
| Edmund White | (born 1940) | American novelist, short-story writer and critic. | |
| LeRoy Whitfield | (1969–2005) | American writer and AIDS activist who chronicled his personal experience with HIV infection and AIDS. | |
| Alex Wilson | (1953–1993) | American-born Canadian writer, teacher, landscape designer, and community activist. |
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