Across all four poems the mon theme is how hard was beg gay or a lbian. They jt show how was om them dividually. In “Commments” by Essex Hemphill, the thor explas how if you see him pictur he looks and seems like a regular guy, which he was. To me a…
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“GAYS AND LBIANS FAI: POEMS”
Always tryg to be who they want to be, both always up short wh fay expectatns due to the fact that they are gay. Everythg that mak up his personaly is nsired too gay to even do, so the grandmother mak up a list. Bee the grandmother saw the signs that the young man might be gay, so she is gog to strip his inty so that n save her the huy.
Blan’s poetry and wrg is tobgraphil nature, narrative and lyril and directly om that impulse to exprs his attempt to meld his past wh his prent, his gay life wh his fay’s expectatns.