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LGBTQ+ Pride Poems

A collection of poems and essays by LGBTQ+ poets on topics and themes of identity, gender, and sexuality.

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Feeling Proud

- I Sing the Body Electric
  Walt Whitman
- Movement Song
  Audre Lorde
- Footnote to Howl
  Allen Ginsberg
- Voyages
  Hart Crane
- Dear Gaybashers
  Jill McDonough
- A History of Sexual Preference
  Robin Becker
- Prayer/Oracion
  Francisco X. Alarcón
- Three Addresses
  Terence Winch
- From the magazine:
  Poem about My Rights
  June Jordan
- The Mortician in San Francisco
  Randall Mann
- From the magazine:
  The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar
  Danez Smith
- From the magazine:
  Matarose Tags G-Dragon on the 7
  Rosebud Ben-Oni
- From the magazine:
  Larry Levan (snake)
  Valerie Martínez
- [Didn’t Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?]
  Marilyn Hacker
- From the magazine:
  Dream Ending in a Host of Angels Zipping Me into My Grandmother’s Dress
  Bradley Trumpfheller
- From the magazine:
  Dear —
  Donika Kelly
- From the magazine:
  from feeld
  Jos Charles
- From the magazine:
  A Second Train Song for Gary
  Jack Spicer
- if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then
  Roque Salas Rivera
- From the magazine:
  Summer
  Chen Chen
- A Litany for Survival
  Audre Lorde
- An American Poem
  Eileen Myles
- American Wedding
  Essex Hemphill
- At Last the New Arriving
  Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Feeling Ambivalent

- Who Said It Was Simple
  Audre Lorde
- From the magazine:
  Homosexuality
  Frank O’Hara
- Ordinary Time
  Tim Dlugos
- From the magazine:
  Glitter in My Wounds
  CAConrad
- Gay Pride Weekend, S.F., 1992
  Brenda Shaughnessy
- From the magazine:
  body without the “d”
  Justice Ameer
- VII. Change
  Anne Carson
- From the magazine:
  LISP
  sam sax
- This Place Rumord to Have Been Sodom
  Robert Duncan
- From the magazine:
  Hymen
  H.D.
- All the Dead Boys Look Like Me
  Christopher Soto
- From the magazine:
  On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
  Ocean Vuong
- G-9
  Tim Dlugos
- My Erotic Double
  John Ashbery
- From the magazine:
  Queer Appalachia
  RK Fauth

On Queer Poets

- From the magazine:
  Ode to Walt Whitman
  Federico García Lorca
- elegy for kari edwards
  Julian Talamantez Brolaski
- Duncan
  Thom Gunn
- The Lyric In A Time of War
  Eloise Klein Healy
- Breakfast with Thom Gunn
  Randall Mann
- In Memory of Joe Brainard
  Frank Bidart
- James Schuyler
  David Trinidad
- From the magazine:
  Three Dreams about Elizabeth Bishop
  J. D. McClatchy
- Burroughs
  Robert Glück
- From the magazine:
  To the Angelbeast
  Eduardo C. Corral
- Leo & Lance
  Randall Mann

Articles, Essays, Interviews

- We’ve Always Been Here, Fighting
  Christopher Soto
- They Were Here
  Allen Ellenzweig
- Language Could Kill Us
  Patrick Nathan
- Crush Notes
  Hugh Ryan
- Casting Spells
  Garrett Caples
- The Gay Gospel of Aaron Smith
  Jameson Fitzpatrick
- Mourning in America
  Tiana Reid
- Zines From a Revolution
  Michael Bronski
- From the magazine:
  A Politics of Mere Being
  Carl Phillips
- I Hope I Haven’t Bored You
  Christopher Spaide
- Lady of the Moon
  Gabrielle Bellot
- Dear Sister Outsider
  Lavelle Porter
- From the magazine:
  Our Only Allegiance Is to Each Other
  TC Tolbert
- In Love With Queer Words
  Sally Connolly

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Poem about My Rights

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Matarose Tags G-Dragon on the 7

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Larry Levan (snake)

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Dream Ending in a Host of Angels Zipping Me into My Grandmother’s Dress

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Dear —

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:from feeld

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:A Second Train Song for Gary

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Summer

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Homosexuality

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Glitter in My Wounds

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:body without the “d”

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:LISP

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Hymen

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Queer Appalachia

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Ode to Walt Whitman

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Three Dreams about Elizabeth Bishop

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:To the Angelbeast

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:A Politics of Mere Being

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Our Only Allegiance Is to Each Other

From the magazine:
Poem about My Rights

From the magazine:
The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar

From the magazine:
Matarose Tags G-Dragon on the 7

From the magazine:
Larry Levan (snake)

From the magazine:
Dream Ending in a Host of Angels Zipping Me into My Grandmother’s Dress

From the magazine:
Dear —

From the magazine:
from feeld

From the magazine:
A Second Train Song for Gary

From the magazine:
Summer

From the magazine:
Homosexuality

From the magazine:
Glitter in My Wounds

From the magazine:
body without the “d”

From the magazine:
LISP

From the magazine:
Hymen

From the magazine:
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

From the magazine:
Queer Appalachia

From the magazine:
Ode to Walt Whitman

From the magazine:
Three Dreams about Elizabeth Bishop

From the magazine:
To the Angelbeast

From the magazine:
A Politics of Mere Being

From the magazine:
Our Only Allegiance Is to Each Other