A Pride of Lions
Without Stonewall We Might Not Have Pride Today
The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of New York …
This is a sonnet about what the heroes of the Stonewall
I will use The Village People’s “Sleazy” because it’s my favourite song of theirs and it is very in your face and sometimes the straight world needs that.
I wrote a copy of the poem out for @StreetwiseNorth at Northern Pride 2022 which you can see below along with the video that I took
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You should not have to dare to be different
You should not have to fight to be who you are
You stood up as cops attacked the Stonewall bar
And gave us our bright rainbow environment
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Thanks To You , Boys Can Love Boys , Girls Can Love Girls
Thanks To You , Men Can Wear Dresses with no fear
Make up too and look outrageously so queer
Your rainbows bring joy and brightness to our world
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The Village People , Divine , David Bowie , and
Ezra Furman, Tom Robinson could be free
Pride Parades , Rainbows , The Joy of being GAY
Good as You, We are all one, you made us see
Make this world a brighter safer rainbow place
The Pride of Lions brought us here and that is ACE
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Well done, Mike!
Fabulous as always!!!💖💕