A Collection of Poetry about Being Gay and Personal Acceptance: Love Is Just Love, SLAM!
- ISBN-10
- 1630212660
- ISBN-13
- 9781630212667
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-02-10
- Author
- Kristy Thomas
Description
This collection tells two very different stories that all come to the same conclusion; there is nothing wrong with being who you are and there is definitely nothing wrong with being gay. In "Love Is Just Love" a soft-spoken man talks about his first love, a boy he sat next to in elementary school. He soon realizes that he was too young to know what these feelings were but that is the problem with growing up. Something as simple as first loves can be forgotten because life tells us that what we feel can't be right in certain situations. It's a simple story of fun, friendship and the recognition of love on the playground. In "SLAM!" we experience a free flowing character who proclaims that he wants to be a rapper but it's all a front. He's from the suburbs, he wants to be a rapper but that requires him to be honest about who he is an his life. It is a smart homage to the ability to tell a great story through rap and a coming out story that gives hope to finding freedom in our own skin.
