CHALLENGER: Give Me Straight and Lesbian Love

My CHALLENGER poetry series was created to challenge the LGBT community to undo the separatist attitudes that plague us and make us unfit to demand any kind of equal rights from the powers-that-be. Such an example of my conviction to this series is how I have NOT been one of the NY gays jumping on the bandwagon applauding NY State giving us the right to marry. It is because in my way of doing things, I work on what's wrong on the inside first before working on the outside in order to make an honest and superior presentation to the powers-that-be.


And because I see the LGBT community as a whole is perpetrating a fraud, no matter what rights today's activists may bring to my lap, I will still not be happy. For being as separatist as we are within our community, and doing nothing about it, we as a whole are not fixing what's wrong on the inside first. Be it size-queens amongst gay males, racism, and now as I present to you, sexism - I, by writing this poetry series with no LGBT media source that I have appealed to with it backing me up, am standing alone in trying to fix these problems.


But for things to get better, with us wearing honest smiles....it needs to be WE.


Give Me Straight and Lesbian Love

I woke up to a good look

At the friends that make up my world

It’s so full of boys with toys

And practically no girls

I have some straight girlfriends

That’s common for a gay man

But I’m wanting more lesbians

To fill my heart’s demand

We have so much in common

With our desires and fight for rights

So why do we make it our business

To stay out of each other’s sights

Fellow gay males, you piss me off

When you want to see her banned

Showing yourselves to be simpletons

All because she is not a man

Scoffs for her just walking in the door

Your actions done to break her heart

Like the straights did exiling you

So it’s an action you shouldn’t start

You should bring down your turned up noses

Be better than our oppressors

For if we’re to make demands of them

We have to show that we are better

I love a night with the boys

She loves a night with the girls

But must our entire lives

Look like single-gender worlds

We may not have the orientation

That is needed to create life

But since it does take each other’s gender

Respect what made your living light

I don’t want to see 3 worlds

1 straight and 2 gay worlds

Let’s live in one world

Filled with boys and girls

Can we have fun together?

And not bond only in stormy weather

Call me “crazy” to want to dare and think

Being just a war buddy is not enough

Give me straight and lesbian love


© 2011 LeNair Xavier