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• WILLIAM GAY

POEMS / GAY POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTS JAO   FOLLOWON AUG 07 2023 05:40 PM PST  UNSACRED ROMANCE

Cavafy is a 20th century Greek poet, known for his highly homoerotic and sexually explic poetry.

While he remaed mostly obscure durg his lifetime, he's now e to be revered as one of the great gay poets of the past hundred years. Ifti Nasim was a gay Pakistani-Amerin poet who moved to the Stat to pe persecutn for his sexualy back his hometown. Baldw is known as one of the great, proud gay artists of all time.

Walt Whman is one of the great poets of all time, and a champn of homoeroticism the lerary form. Explore the rich tradn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer poets and poetry by browsg a selectn of poems & d.

WILLIAM GAY

And though, given the time perd which he lived, was impossible for him to be fully “out,” the buoyant poetry his op Leav of Grass is licly homoerotic and speaks effively of the rich love shared between men.Pl, he’s mored to have had a short tryst wh the much younger Osr Wil, who referred to Whman simply as "Daddy." (*Gulp*)“We Two Boys Together Clgg”:We two boys together clggOne the other never leavgUp and down the roads gog, North and South excursns makg,Power enjoyg, elbows stretchg, fgers clutchg,Arm'd and fearls, eatg, drkg, sleepg, lovg,No law ls than ourselv owng, sailg, soldierg, thievg, threateng,Misers, menials, prits alarmg, air breathg, water drkg, on the turf or the sea-beach dancg,Ci wrenchg, ease srng, statut mockg, feeblens chasg,Fulfillg our foray.2. Contemporary rears spect this palpable heartache om her abily to fully realize her queer inty.We passed each other, turned and stopped for half an hour, then went our way,I who make other women se did not make you--But no man n move mountas a day.So this hard thg is yet to do.But first I want your life:--before I die I want to seeThe world that li behd the strangens of your ey,There is nothg gay or green there for my gatherg, may be,Yet on brown fields there liA hntg purple bloom: is there not somethg grey skiAnd grey sea?I want what world there is behd your ey,I want your life and you will not give me.3.

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)A proment figure of the New York School (a group of artists New York Cy spired by abstract exprsnism, jazz and surrealism), Frank O’Hara dazzled throughout the 50s and 60s wh his wildly hilar, urgent and personal poetry.O’Hara intified openly as a gay man and kept a wi circle of iends and lovers, many of whom he exprsively ptured his tramark nfsnal style.at you and I would rather look at you than all the portras the worlxcept possibly for the Polish Rir ocsnally and anyway ’s the Frickwhich thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we n go together the first timeand the fact that you move so betifully more or ls tak re of Futurismjt as at home I never thk of the Nu Dcendg a Stairse orat a rehearsal a sgle drawg of Leonardo or Michelangelo that ed to wow meand what good do all the rearch of the Imprsnists do themwhen they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sankor for that matter Maro Mari when he didn’t pick the rir as refullyas the horse seems they were all cheated of some marvelo experiencewhich is not gog to go wasted on me which is why I am tellg you about 4. In the 60s, as he served as edor and journalist for a slew of lerary magaz Havana, his openly gay liftyle ran direct opposn to the Communist regime of the untry, rultg his imprisonment 1974 for “iologil viatn."He was placed the notor El Morro Castle alongsi vlent rapists and murrers, where he managed to survive by helpg mat wre love letters home.Once he ped to the Uned Stat 1980, he wrote prolifilly of his experienc Cuba, producg poetry that was raw and largely tobgraphil. 1968)Intifyg openly not only as a gay man, but also as an immigrant and a Cuban-Amerin, poet Richard Blan’s work grappl wh the tensn that wh assumg inti that often n direct nflict wh one another.

This ma him the first lato, the first immigrant and the first openly gay person to ever do so.I’ve been wrg this scethe woman I slept wh the nightof my father’s wake, scemy grandmother first lled mea faggot and I said nothg, sceI fave her and my bodyprsed hard agast Michaelon the dance floor at Twist, scethe years spent wh a martiand men I knew I uldn’t love.7. His poetry is tense, tacklg issu of racial discrimatn and homophobia wh a poignancy that mak even his most sperate pleas rg wh a roundg strength.A performance of his poem, "Dear Whe Ameri":. Of beg Gay!

Gay, non-bary, and Glaswegian poet Peter Slpello has put together a llectn of raw, punk, open-hearted queer poems.

The awkward and rigid bari of heterosexual relatnships are examed through a peo lens, and the secrets of ightened, closeted gay married men are exposed.

Sectn 28 or Clse 28, for those of you who do not know, was a 1988 amendment to the Lol Government Act that stated that a lol thory “shall not tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy” or “promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”. Gay’s the Word, London.