Feeling Proud at Pride
As June rolls around again, we stop to remember the Stonewall rioters, who fought back against a police raid of a gay bar in the West Village on June 28, 1969, and take a moment to appreciate the beauty and goodness of our queer lives, what Allen Ginsberg calls holy, what Audre Lorde exhorts us not to waste.

“Footnote to Howl” by Allen Ginsberg

“Movement Song” by Audre Lorde

“A History of Sexual Preference” by Robin Becker

“Prayer” by Francisco X. Alarcón

“Three Addresses” by Terence Winch

“Poem about My Rights” by June Jordan

Feeling Ambivalent at Pride
Sometimes Gay Pride leaves out the complicated reality of our lives, tries to squish us into a new ill-fitting box. There’s a poem for that.

“Who Said It Was Simple” by Audre Lorde

“My Voice” by Rafael Campo

“Homosexuality” by Frank O’Hara

“Ode For Walt Whitman” by Jack Spicer

“Ordinary Time” by Tim Dlugos

Queer Poets on Queer Poets
Poems from the long tradition of queer poets writing to poet friends, lovers, and ancestors. Find poems for Sappho, Audre Lorde, James Schuyler, William S. Burroughs, kari edwards, Robert Duncan, Elizabeth Bishop, and more.

“Anchorage” by Joy Harjo

“The Lyric In A Time of War” by Eloise Klein Healy

“Three Dreams about Elizabeth Bishop” by J. D. McClatchy

“Duncan” by Thom Gunn

“James Schuyler” by David Trinidad

“Burroughs” by Robert Glück

“Elegy for Kari Edwards” by Julian Talamantez Brolaski

“To the Angelbeast” by Eduardo C. Corral

“Breakfast with Thom Gunn” by Randall Mann