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- Harish Iyer (b. 1979), Indian Columnist and activist contributes articles for Tehelka, Pink Pages, The Indian Express and Daily News and Analysis
- Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943), English author, wrote The Well of Loneliness (1928)
- Richard Hall (1926–1992), American author
- Joseph Hansen (1923–2004), American author
- Bertha Harris (b. 1937), American author
- Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), African American poet and activist
- Philip Hensher (b. 1965), English author
- Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995), American author
- Daryl Hine (b. 1936), Canadian poet
- Guy Hocquenghem (1946–1988), French author and theorist
- Andrew Holleran (pseudonym of Eric Garber) (b. 1944), American author, wrote Dancer from the Dance (1978)
- Alan Hollinghurst (b. 1954), English novelist, wrote The Swimming Pool Library (1988), The Folding Star (1994), The Spell (1998), The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Booker Prize
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), English author
- Horace (65-8 B.C.), Roman author
- A. E. Housman (1859–1936), English poet
- Richard Howard (b. 1929), American poet
- Tanya Huff (b. 1957), Canadian author
- Langston Hughes (1902–1967), African American poet
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907), French author, wrote Against the Grain (À rebours, 1884)
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