Pride Month: LGBTQ+ Pride Poems to Read This Month

First Published Jun 6, 2024, 4:37 PM IST

Here is a collection of five popular poems that celebrate love and self-discovery. This Pride Month, read these timeless verses by renowned poets and celebrate your identity.

'Movement Song'- Audre Lorde

An excerpt-
“…I am a fellow rider in the cattle cars
watching
you move slowly out of my bed
saying we cannot waste time
only ourselves.”

'Poem about My Rights'- June Jordan

An excerpt-
“Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear
my head about this poem about why I can’t
go out without changing my clothes my shoes
my body posture my gender identity my age
my status as a woman alone in the evening…”

'Footnote to Howl'- Allen Ginsberg

An excerpt-
“…The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is
holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy!...”

'I Sing the Body Electric'- Walt Whitman

An excerpt-
“I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.”

'Homosexuality'- Frank O’Hara

An excerpt-
“…It’s wonderful to admire oneself
with complete candor, tallying up the merits of each…”