Detectives from the vice squad
with weary sadistic eyes
spotting fairies.
Degenerates,
some folks say.
But God, Nature,
or somebody
made them that way.
Police lady or Lesbian
over there?
Where?
HarlemBespoke.com 2019
Thursday, June 13, 2019
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This poem written a couple of years before the Stonewall riots in 1969 reflects on the era's police abuse of the LGBT community and also society's lack of compassion or understanding alongside the ever present fear within the community.
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