"The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar" by Danez Smh is the story of a young persons first time a gay bar and the liberatn they feel.
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THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
this g-heavy heaven, blsed ground to thk _gay_ & mean _we._ * gay bar poems *
This g-heavy heaven, blsed ground to thk gay & mean we.
I want to live on his tongue, build a home of gospel & gayety. The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar by Danez Smh is the story of a young person’s first time a gay bar and the liberatn they feel. Explore The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar1 Summary2 Stcture3 Poetic Techniqu4 Detailed Analysis.
THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
* gay bar poems *
The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar by Danez Smh begs wh beg admted to the gay bar, the poet managg to pass by the bouncer whout beg qutned. He worships the space of the gay bar, brg together He stat that he never knew ‘which god to pray to’, and has found a sense of muny wh the gay bar, feelg at one wh the ia ‘to thk gay & mean we’.
The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar by Danez Smh is wrten as one stanza that is partially segregated due to the space of ‘dash’ as an termissn le.
THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
Gay poetry: * gay bar poems *
Another technique that Smh wrg The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar is anaphora.
THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
this g-heavy heaven, blsed ground to thk gay & mean we. bls the fake id & the bouncer who knew this need to be need, to belong, to know how a man taste full on vodka & ee of s. i know not which god to pray to. i look to christ, i look to every mouth on the dance floor, i orr a whiskey ke, name the blood of my new savr. he is jt. he begs me to dance, to marvel men wh the dash of hips i brought, he ems my mouth some stranger's mouth necsary. bls that man's mouth, the song we sway sloppy to, the beat, the bridge, the length of his hand on my thigh & back & i know not which untry i am of. i want to live on his tongue, build a home of gospel & gayety i want to raise a cy behd his teeth for all boys of choirs & closets to refuge . * gay bar poems *
this g-heavy heaven, blsed ground to thk gay & mean we.
J AT THE GAY BAR
The poem begs whout a pal letter, The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar startg as if were mid-sentence. Smh wr ‘to thk gay and mean we’, focg on the ia that he has found a sense of muny wh the gay bar. Smh suggts then growg up gay, seemgly different to those around you, the experience n be credibly isolatg.
J AT THE GAY BAR
Yet, now they have reached the ‘Gay Bar’, a symbol of both metaphoril and leral gay unn, they have begun to nnect wh others, feelg at home and fally able to e ‘we’ and mean a ‘gay’ muny.
Smh stat that ‘this need to be need’, relatg to the ia that a gay person growg up wh a hegemonic ntext that is heterosexual before any other sexual inty may feel out of place. This uld be rallyg agast disurs of relign that typilly tend to outlaw homosexualy as somethg morally wrong.
Smh fights agast this homophobic notn, g relig semantics to create a space of ‘worship’ that is acceptg and lovg, rather than divisive and exclnary. The focg upon ‘build a home of gospel & gayety’ draws upon the re them of the poem. Then, the mixg of the relig, ‘gospel’, and the play on words relatg to homosexualy wh ‘gayety’, furthers this sense of muny, Smh fdg the place where he n fully experience their queer inty.