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Dorothy
Things are easy now
To be out and gay and proud
Though it wasn’t always this way
There were things you could and couldn’t say
A favorite of mine
That I still use from time to time
Are you a friend of Dorothy?
This opened and closed doors
You knew where you might dip your oars
And kept you from making detours
It was fun to find how many friends of Dorothy
Were in your community and in your secret club
Now it’s all out in the open
No club nor quest
No time to invest
To seek your fellow friends of Dorothy
To be out and gay and proud
Though it wasn’t always this way
There were things you could and couldn’t say
A favorite of mine
That I still use from time to time
Are you a friend of Dorothy?
This opened and closed doors
You knew where you might dip your oars
And kept you from making detours
It was fun to find how many friends of Dorothy
Were in your community and in your secret club
Now it’s all out in the open
No club nor quest
No time to invest
To seek your fellow friends of Dorothy
Published 14th Jan 2020
Author's Note
I’m not so old that I’ve lived this but I like to keep the memory and saying alive
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29th Mar 2020 10:18pm
In Britain there was a language called Piccadilly palare, it was part of the queer culture when to be homosexual meant going to jail. Comedians also used it in some of their sketches for its double entendre value. As far as I know ... all of that is gone. Being gay is just some humdrum run of the mill state of being and the clandestine culture is by and large gone. If the culture is not gone it reflects something else; certainly not oppression.
Very interesting topic you've raised in this poem.
Anyway, here's Morrissey, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcGA2Wwdlwc they've invented something called Alt-right just to try and silence him.
Very interesting topic you've raised in this poem.
Anyway, here's Morrissey, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcGA2Wwdlwc they've invented something called Alt-right just to try and silence him.
