List of LGBT Writers - V

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• Fernando Vallejo (b. 1942), Colombian author, wrote Our Lady of the Assassins (1994)
• Ruth Vanita (b. 1955), Indian author, wrote Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination (1996), Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society (2002), Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (2005)
• Marlene van Niekerk (b. 1954), South African author
• Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964), American author and photographer
• Carlos Varo (b. 1936), Spanish/Puerto Rican author
• Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), French poet
• Théophile de Viau (1590–1626), French poet
• Gore Vidal (1925–2012), American author, wrote The City and the Pillar (1948), Myra Breckinridge (1968)
• Alfredo Villanueva-Collado (b. 1944), Puerto Rican author
• Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950), Mexican author
• David Viñas (b. 1929), Argentine author
• Virgil (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet
• Renée Vivien (1877–1909), Anglo-French writer
• Bruno Vogel (1898–1983), German author
• Paula Vogel (b. 1951), American playwright, wrote How I Learned to Drive (1997)