List of queer women writing SF

Queer women in SF
Characters & works: Protagonists; Protagonists (YA); Characters; ; Specific characters & stereotypes:; Evil/dead lesbian cliché
Writers & other people:; Writers; Other creators; SF people
See also:; Female characters; Female authors; Oppressions & intersections; Women Make SF
About the IQW

Criteria

"queer women": Must have publicly self-identified for a significant amount of time as a queer woman. For living people, "queer woman" includes any person who has identified as a woman at the same time that she has openly acknowledged being lesbian, bisexual, queer, or having had primary sexual or romantic relationship(s) with other women. For deceased people, note and describe source: self-identification, historical knowledge of public relationship, etc. Any living writer who wishes to not be listed here will be removed; this list is not intended to out people.
"writers of SF": Must be identified by someone, somewhere, as a writer of SF. This is a judgment involving critical literary faculty and not weighing on personal lives that may implicate social or legal consequences, so feel free to label.

↑ Burdekin had a lifelong female companion.
↑ Ian self-identified her female partner Pat on her website, janisian.com/ephemera.html.
↑ Biography of Matthews in Women Writing Science Fiction as Men (ed. Mike Resnick) noted that Matthews "and her partner Maggie have been keeping house for nearly twenty-five years".
↑ Self-identified; email to Laura Quilter, March 20, 2001.