Famous gay poems
Love is love… is love. But that doesn’t mean “love” means or feels the same every time you trial it. Celebrating LGBTQIA+ love means acknowledging all the alternative types of feelings we have, whether it’s romantic care for for a companion, love for our community, love for ourselves or even love for a specific place. These poems celebrate homosexual love, whether that love is nice, bittersweet or somewhere in between.
When You’re Feeling Wildly, Exuberantly in Love, Browse Andrea Gibson’s Love Poem.
Love Poem contains all the agony and ecstasy of early love. From Gibson’s epically sentimental declaration, “You are the moon when it blooms for the very first time” to their brutally honest line, “It’s true when we argue you make me wanna rip off my nose, bone and all,” this poem celebrates both the highs and lows of a giddy new love affair.
When You’re Feeling Grateful for Your Boyfriend, Read June Jordan’s Poem for My Love.
This poem tells the sweet story of two lovers, safe inside and marveling at their relationship:
I am amazed by peace
It is this possibility of you
asleep
and breathing in the quiet air
Poem for My Love showcases the gentler and calmer side of love; the po
LGBTQ Poetry
Explore the rich tradition of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans person, and queer poets and poetry by browsing a selection of poems & audio. For more essays, video, and ephemera, examine out our Pride Month roundup.
Featured Poems
“Hair” by Francisco Aragón
who conceived that ravine
“Langston Blues” by Jericho Brown
O Blood of the River of songs ...
“The Distant Moon” by Rafael Campo
Admitted to the hospital again ...
“Where Is She ::: Koté Li Yé” by R. Erica Doyle
Long ago I met / a beautiful boy ...
“Things Haunt” by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
California is a desert and I am a woman inside it ...
“Kudzu” by Saeed Jones
I won't be forgiven / for what I've made / of myself ...
“The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one” by June Jordan
well I wanted to braid my hair ...
“Breathe. As in. (shadow)” by Rosamond S. King
Breathe / . As in what if ...
“The Black Unicorn” by Audre Lorde
The black unicorn is avaricious ...
“I Do” by Sjohnna McCray
Driving the highway from Atlanta to Phoenix ...
Today is National Coming Out Day. I’m reminded of the book Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. In their email exchanges, Simon and Blue converse about why linear people don’t include to come out. The answer, of course, is heteronormativity. When straight is the “default,” you only have to come “out” if you’re not linear. Simon and Cerulean go on to coin the legal title The Homo Sapiens Agenda. This involves everyone having to come out, making coming out a universal human exposure. As much as I’d love to see that, it’s still always gonna be easier to come out as straight.
Whether you’ve been in the closet a fleeting or long moment, you know it can be at least a tiny dark and a little scary. If you’re still in the closet, just know that I’m sending you pale. Coming out, letting your queerness be seen and noted can be awesome. But the closet can feel secure and familiar as well. You receive to do that for as drawn-out as you desire to and necessitate to. It doesn’t make you any less queer. When you come out, and who you come out to, is a deeply personal choice. If you do select to, there’s a whole community of people wai
5 love poems by LGBTQ+ writers to interpret at your ceremony
sthandwa sami (my beloved, in isiZulu) by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Written by 37-year-old queer English scribe Yrsa Daley-Ward, who is of both Jamaican and Nigerian descent, this stunning love poem encompasses the excitement of dreaming about a life together:
“I can see the house on the hill where we grow our own vegetables out back
and refreshment warm wine out of jam jars
and vocalize songs in the kitchen until the sun comes up
wena
you produce me feel like myself
again. Myself before I had any solid reasons to be anything else.”
The Love Poems of June Jordan
Jamaican-American poet June Jordan has an entire manual of love poems, aptly called Haruko/Love Poems. Poems enjoy Poem for my Lovewould be a lovely part of any ceremony. There is also a stunning couplet from the poem, Update:
“Still I am teaching unconditional and true/Still I am burning unconditional for you.”
For the Courtesan Ch’ing Lin by Wu Tsao
Wu Tsao, considered one of the great Chinese womxn loving womxn poets, lived in the early 1800s, and wrote this beautiful love poem that in part