Three Poems About Being Gay in Florida
Emily Donovan
Don’t say
Erasure of House Bill 1557
An act
prohibiting
sexual orientation or gender identity
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur
Obscene indoctrination
Erasure of “Story Time with Momma Ashley Rose! 6/21/2020”
Well hi everybody! Welcome to
loved, accepted, wanted
all my friends out there
a little story
this book was written illustrated
That’s a pretty picture of Miss , isn’t it?
was born in . My goodness, that’s a long time ago.
I wonder
Everyone knew she was a .
She came out in .
Can you imagine in her being an out ?
That had to have been hard back then.
At that time, fewer than 7% of African Americans
were able to graduate from high school. back then
My goodness.
Their home was open to
The Center honors
one of only four
dedicated to .
“We need
We need
If we can get more in our politics,
”
Oh my goodness, I learned something new today.
That makes my heart happy
that even back then
as always, I love you all.
like and share our videos
Never forget that you are , , and
Bye!
Recent Facebook comments on gay Tampa Bay Times articles
so much for
@Becky Murray you’re more than welcome to move to another state
@Becky Murray bye becky
It’s not hate, it’s
pedophile freaks and a m0nkeyPox superSpreader event
Jam it down our throats
@Tom Jones I don’t agree that
@Tom Jones compared to you, yes
@Tom Jones stay mad boomer
So much for
so sad they
They need to be focused on
Simpleton’s are easy to swindle
You people
Meanwhile,
Let’s just hope
Emily Donovan is a lesbian writer who received an MFA from Florida Atlantic University. She co-wrote the comedy-fiction podcast Donald August Versus the Land of Flowers and her other writing has published in Musing the Margins: Essays on Craft, FIVE:2:ONE, and Queerlings. She co-hosts The Good Writing Podcast. Emily lives in Colorado with several struggling houseplants.