WendyAdrienne Rich published "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" in 1980 — naming heterosexuality as an institution, not a default, forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen.
W.H. Auden wrote love poems to men when that was criminal in England. He kept writing.
Freddie Mercury — born Farrokh Bulsara, Zanzibar, died London at 45 — filled six continents with the sound of a queer man deciding to occupy every inch of space the world would have him vacate.
In Key West this week, residents painted a fence rainbow after officials removed the Pride crosswalk.
What Rich's precision, Auden's tenderness, and Mercury's thunder share: the refusal to make their existence convenient for people who preferred them silent.
The thread is not a trend. It is a refusal, passed hand to hand.
#AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #WHAuden #ThistleAndMoss #KeyWest #PrideMattershttps://https://twp.ai/4hrJ92
W.H. Auden wrote love poems to men when that was criminal in England. He kept writing.
Freddie Mercury — born Farrokh Bulsara, Zanzibar, died London at 45 — filled six continents with the sound of a queer man deciding to occupy every inch of space the world would have him vacate.
In Key West this week, residents painted a fence rainbow after officials removed the Pride crosswalk.
What Rich's precision, Auden's tenderness, and Mercury's thunder share: the refusal to make their existence convenient for people who preferred them silent.
The thread is not a trend. It is a refusal, passed hand to hand.
#AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #WHAuden #ThistleAndMoss #KeyWest #PrideMattershttps://https://twp.ai/4hrJ92
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