The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar by Danez Smh

Contents:

• THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
• THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
• PRI POETRY: THE 17-YEAR OLD & THE GAY BAR BY DANEZ SMH
• THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
• THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
• ANALYSIS OF THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
• LGBTQ+ VOIC: DANEZ SMH“THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR”XANR GUIDRY·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE CREATIVE PROCESS COLLECTIVE · SUBMISIONS PAGE FOR ·1 M READ·AUG 10, 2020--LISTENSHARELGBTQ+ VOIC EDOR: ALEXANR GUIDRYA PERSONIFITN OF HOW QUEER LIBERATN IS PARABLE TO RELIG ENLIGHTENMENTTHE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR: DANEZ SMH
• “THE 17 YEAR OLD & THE GAY BAR” BY DANEZ SMH
• THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR

THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR

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

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.

PRI POETRY: THE 17-YEAR OLD & THE GAY BAR BY DANEZ SMH

Another technique that Smh wrg The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar is anaphora. this g-heavy heaven, blsed ground to thk gay & mean we. The poem begs whout a pal letter, The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar startg as if were mid-sentence.

THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR

Smh wr ‘to thk gay and mean we’, focg on the ia that he has found a sense of muny wh the gay bar.

THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR

Smh suggts then growg up gay, seemgly different to those around you, the experience n be credibly isolatg. 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.

ANALYSIS OF THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR

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.

This is the closg thought of the poem, Smh suggted that they feel ‘ee for the first time’, the ‘Gay Bar’ actg as a symbol and lotn of te muny and liberatn. They have won multiple awards for their poetry and are one of the foundg members of the Dark Noise Collective, an anisatn which scrib self as "a multiracial, multi-genre llective of some of today's most excg poets" poem The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar speaks to the importance of queer spac and celebrat that first experience of eedom to be queer.

LGBTQ+ VOIC: DANEZ SMH“THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR”XANR GUIDRY·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE CREATIVE PROCESS COLLECTIVE · SUBMISIONS PAGE FOR ·1 M READ·AUG 10, 2020--LISTENSHARELGBTQ+ VOIC EDOR: ALEXANR GUIDRYA PERSONIFITN OF HOW QUEER LIBERATN IS PARABLE TO RELIG ENLIGHTENMENTTHE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR: DANEZ SMH

While we n't have physil spac at Pri this year, we n hold onto the fact that will not be forever and this eedom and joy will be ours aga 17-Year-Old & the Gay Barthis g-heavy heaven, blsed ground to thk gay & mean we.

The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar.

this g-heavy heaven, blsed ground to thk gay & mean we.

“THE 17 YEAR OLD & THE GAY BAR” BY DANEZ SMH

The 17-Year-Old & The Gay Bar: Danez Smhthis g-heavy heaven, blsed ground to thk gay & mean the fake id & the bouncer who knewthis need to be need, to belong, to know howa man taste full on vodka & ee of s. I want to live on his tongue, build a home of gospel & gayetyi want to raise a cy behd his teeth for all boys of choirs & closets to refuge .

THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR

Danez Smh’s poem “The 17 Year Old & the Gay Bar”, illtrat the nfince one n have fdg themselv where they belong.