Dear Gaybashers by Jill McDonough | Poetry Foundatn

Contents:

• POEMS / GAY PRI POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTSENSUALVIRTUOSO   FOLLOWON MAY 08 2014 09:17 AM PST  FREEDOM
• THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
• DEAR GAYBASHERS

POEMS / GAY PRI POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTSENSUALVIRTUOSO   FOLLOWON MAY 08 2014 09:17 AM PST  FREEDOM

Explore the rich tradn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer poets and poetry by browsg a selectn of poems & d. Last night, I went to a gay bar. I live next to a bar that’s not a gay bar.

While I slept, a man went to a gay club. The protter the photo was gay, you know,.

“ar gaybashers” by Jill McDonough.

THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR

Rty: Now, is that gaybashg? and driv around San Francis chuckg them at gays?

the srf Josey sewed om antique silk kimonos: so gay. Josey and Rty and Bob make fun of the gaybashers, and I.

homophobic eaks. “homosexualy” by Frank O’Hara. “Gay pri weekend” by brenda shghnsy.

DEAR GAYBASHERS

“the 17-Year-old & the gay bar” by Danez Smh.

this g-heavy heaven, blsed ground to thk gay & mean we. I want to live on his tongue, build a home of gospel & gayety.

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