Gay Folks Do

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Yes, I know I am on a summer break...BUT...I would like to encourage readers to click on to the link below as I think it is very important for everyone in societies worldwide that this absurd notion about gay people needing to be ‘cured’ is killed off once and for all.

http://www.allout.org/en/actions/endgaycures?akid=809.914447.qwwDrp&amp=&amp=&amp=&rd=1&t=3&utm_campaign=endgaycures&utm_content=english&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit

Sexuality has to be in the genes. How else can there be millions of us worldwide from all kinds of socio-cultural-religious backgrounds?  The less enlightened among the heterosexual majority need to change the record and get real.

Meanwhile...

A reader, 'Anton'  has asked me to repeat the link (again) to my informal poetry reading on the 4th plinth in  Trafalgar Square in 2009 as part of Antony Gormley's  One and Other 'live sculpture' project. Be warned, it lasts an hour:

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100223121732/oneandother.co.uk/participants/Roger_T

Meanwhile...

Creative writing or any kind of creativity for that matter is a wonderful therapy. Don’t worry about being any good at it or not, just focus and go ahead; it is always a worthwhile exercise.

Now, I am not having as relaxing a break as I would like and am experiencing a lot of unexpected stress. As always, writing poems - especially love poems - helps relieve that stress and I would like to share this one with you today.

GAY FOLKS DO

There is a fire in me

that burns night and day,

but they say

it can’t possibly be love

because we’re gay

and everybody knows

gay folks

don’t do love, only camp,

butch and sex

There is a light in me

that shines night and day

but they say

it can’t have anything to do

with spirituality

since everybody knows

gay folks

only have time for sexual

identity

There is a voice in me

that sings night and day

about life, love,

and the sheer beauty

of being gay,

loving someone who loves

me too,

Earth Mother watching

over us

Copyright R. N. Taber 2012