There’s no place like homo There’s no place like homo There’s no place like homo
somewhere over the rainbow way up high
there’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
Wake up honi, it’s called san francisco
where white bourgie bitches getting gay married but my ass ain’t got an invite sha hoo~
Somewhere over the rainbow Blue birds fly,
Birds fly over the rainbow. Why can't, oh why can’t I?
[ all ] BECAUSE YOU’RE BROWN HONEY GURL
I’m bout to sassy gay friend this ish ~ Not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you
Rainbows are nothing but refracted white light, gay marriage activism is nothing but a temper tantrum:
Mommy I’m going to buy an “I’m a second class citizen” American Apparel v-neck to go with my corporate internship and some ass
I didn’t always think this way
Cuz philadelphia taught me everything i still know about shame
that this queer body was something to “correct”.
that looking like “a faggot with a cunt” only meant I was looking for trouble.
So in high school I laced my shoes with rainbows and preached the gospel of equal rights and pride
They teach us marriage will finally untangle our love from our shame,
will legislate us wholly human.
But the day same sex marriage was legalized in New York, DC, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa,
**it didn’t get better** because “Somewhere over the rainbow” there’s a pot of Goldman Sachs
**DUN DUN DUN DUN** We are gathered here today
for richer, for poorer.
tell that to El’Jai who lost his job last year
He lives in one of only 12 states where you cannot legally be fired for having a body that doesn’t sit right with your heart
but his job “could only be done by a man” and his genitals did not conform to his employers expectations.
I do not know if he won the court case,
only that he has a son, and that being brown and trans means being 4 times less likely to find work.
**but who needs money for bread when you can eat wedding cake!**
in good times and in bad
tell that to Temmie Breslauer a trans woman from New York who was arrested for using her father’s discount subway card.
the NYPD chained her to a wall for 28 hours and called her a he-she
**to have and to be held**
**this is what marriage means for queer people!**
as we send the government wedding invitations to incarcerate our love
till death do us part,
tell that to asher brown who at thirteen took a gun to his head as if it was an act of patriotism
because in texas being gay is a death sentence.
it is nights spent whispering secrets to open skies
it is the sound of your mother crying as she wonders how that thing came out of her
and i do, i do,
i do not believe that a marriage certificate could have stopped the bullet
Remember,
There is something beautiful about being lied to:
Rainbows are just a trick of the light,
They make us forget the storm is still happening,
When walking towards the end of the rainbow, it will **always move away**.