University of Oxford

University coat of arms

The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the United Kingdom, comprising a number of self-governing colleges and other institutions, most of which are located in and around the centre of Oxford.

LGBT history

The Oxford University LGBT Lectures have been held annually since 2010.

Notable alumni and academics

Balliol College

• Anthony Asquith
• Lionel Blue
• Boris Johnson
• Beverley Nichols
• Harold Nicolson
• Algernon Charles Swinburne
• John Addington Symonds

Brasenose College

• Richard Barnefield
• David Cameron

Christ Church

• see Christ Church, Oxford.

Corpus Christi College

• Stephen Doughty
• Alan Hollinghurst (lecturer)
• Kenneth Kendall

Exeter College

• Alan Bennett
• Edwin Emmanuel Bradford
• Ned Sherrin

Hertford College

• Richard Addinsell
• Evelyn Waugh

Jesus College

• T E Lawrence

Lady Margaret Hall

• [[Nellie Benson]
• Margaret Benson
• Philip Hensher

Magdalen College

• Alan Hollinghurst
• H Montgomery Hyde
• John Mark Ainsley
• Lord Alfred Douglas
• John Wolfenden (fellow)
• Matt Houlbrook
• Oscar Wilde

Merton College

• Edmund Backhouse
• Lennox Berkeley
• Angus Wilson

New College

• Maurice Bowra
• Ian Buist
• Patrick Gale
• Neil MacGregor
• Gordon Marsden
• Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
• Andrew Sullivan
• Edward Perry Warren

Nuffield College

• Michael Steed

Oriel College

• John Henry Newman (Fellow)

Pembroke College

• David Allen Green
• Hugh Lygon
• Roz Kaveney

Queen's College

• Walter Pater
• R B Parkinson

Somerville College

• Alan Hollinghurst (lecturer)

St Anne's College

• Michael Dillon (as Laura Dillon)

St Catherine's College

• Stephen Daldry (visiting professor)
• Jeanette Winterson

St Edmund Hall

• Peter Scott-Presland

St Hilda's College

• Ruth Hunt

St Hugh's College

• Sarah Outen

St John's College

• A E Housman

Trinity College

• James Elroy Flecker
• Terence Rattigan
• Jeremy Thorpe

University College

• Paul Gambaccini
• Owen Jones
• Stephen Spender
• William Whitehead

Wadham College

• Maurice Bowra (Warden)
• Andrew Hodges (Fellow)
• Laurie Penny
• Robert Thistlethwayte (Warden)
• John Wilkins (Warden)
• Rowan Williams

Wolfson College

• David Isaac

Worcester College

• Stephen Oliver