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- FIRST OPENLY GAY KENTUCKY POET LREATE, SILAS HOE TALKS VISIBILY AND BACKLASH
- I'M A GAY REPUBLIN. POET LREATE SILAS HOE IS AN EMBARRASSG KENTUCKY ELEGY
- KENTUCKY ERNOR’S NEW CULTURAL ‘AMBASSADOR’ TELLS SCOTUS JUDG, ‘YOU N KISS MY GAY UNTRY ASS’
- CHRISTIAN LEARS ROW OVER POET LREATE'S 'GOD IS GAY' POEM
FIRST OPENLY GAY KENTUCKY POET LREATE, SILAS HOE TALKS VISIBILY AND BACKLASH
Edward Heath was told poet should be led out over ‘utterly revoltg’ vers about gay sex and Aun’s cisn to be an Amerin cizen * gay poet laureate *
McCabe is also the first openly gay Poet Lreate Gulfport, and his work discs not only the queer experience, but the thoughts of a wrer not aaid to go plac many do not.
RM: It’s important for me to say that I’m the first openly gay Gulfport poet lreate bee right now Florida we have all kds of issu like the “Don’t Say Gay” [bill].
Everyone Gulfport knows I’m gay, but this is the first official time there’s an openly queer poet lreate here and I’m proud of that. When did you first e out as gay?
I'M A GAY REPUBLIN. POET LREATE SILAS HOE IS AN EMBARRASSG KENTUCKY ELEGY
* gay poet laureate *
She said “Why are you cryg for those homosexuals? She said que distctly, “If I knew you were gog to grow up to be a homosexual, I would have had you aborted. Now, he’s the state’s first openly gay poet lreate.
‘There is no monolhic gay person. Hoe’s appotment as poet lreate – the first openly gay Kentuckian the role – after a legislative ssn featurg several anti-LGBTQ bills.
“I’m jt happy to be out there as an openly gay person and to be visible and to show people that there is no monolhic gay person.
KENTUCKY ERNOR’S NEW CULTURAL ‘AMBASSADOR’ TELLS SCOTUS JUDG, ‘YOU N KISS MY GAY UNTRY ASS’
Beg gay also shouldn’t be policized, Hoe said. “Somebody said to me the other day: ‘Why do you have to be so polil about beg gay?
“I’m not the one who policized beg gay. I'm jt happy to be out there as an openly gay person and to be visible and to show people that there is no monolhic gay person.
My parents, who once chatted at suppertime about roundg up and forcg all gay folks onto an island, now wele my hband and me to their table as a uple. On beg the first openly gay poet lreate of Kentucky, Hoe shared that, “If by havg more of a public platform I n help somebody else to fd that safety and acceptance, then that really mak worth for me.
CHRISTIAN LEARS ROW OVER POET LREATE'S 'GOD IS GAY' POEM
But, Hoe shared that, “I’ve also seen que a b of hate mail, ments on Governor Andy Bhear’s page, articl, and so on, about me beg gay.
A lot of is them sayg I n’t reprent my people properly jt bee I’m gay, or even that I’m anti-relign bee I’m gay, even though I’m a pretty vol person of fah. He ntued, “All of the assumptns about me, bee I’m a gay person, they would never say the thgs about a straight person – that they n’t reprent everybody. So, other words, the gay people don’t exist, right?