poetry

Australia: Just A Bunch Of Amazing Queer Black And Indigenous Artists To Support

Stonewall couldn’t have happened without Black and brown LGBTIQ folk, such as black trans activists, Marsha P Johnson and Miss Major. Black lives, Black LGBTIQ lives, always have and always will matter. Our community needs to remember this, and support them.

Singapore: Bans, censors, jail: perfect storm for gay arts in Singapore?

“From theatre to performance and visual art exhibitions, LGBT+ artists in Singapore have slowly carved out space and pushed the comfort zone for dialogue around gay counterculture,” said Tristan Cai, a Singaporean, who teaches art and Asian studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in the United States.

Brazil: Apagada por mais de 160 anos, a poesia LGBT brasileira é resgatada por pesquisadoras

Amanda Machado e Marina Moura resgatam autores e poemas LGBT no livro “Poesia Gay Brasileira”, em fase de financiamento coletivo

Cleared for over 160 years, the Brazilian LGBT poetry is rescued by researchers

How The Bond Between Two Gay Men Produced Some Of The Finest Poems Of WWI

The warrior-poets were among the most significant chroniclers of World War I. “If I should die, think only this of me;/ That there’s some corner of a foreign field/ That is forever England” and “In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row” are lines that live on in the popular imagination, 100 years after the outbreak of hostilities.

But many of the finest poems of the Great War—including “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Dulce et Decorum Est”—might not exist were it not for the pivotal bond between two gay men who were the era’s finest war poets: Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Read More