"Gay Broadway"

If you are not familiar with Klaus Nomi, drop whatever you are doing and go listen to him. You can find him on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, iTunes, etc. Unfortunately, you will not be able to see him perform in person, as he was one of the first celebrities to succumb to AIDS way back in 1983. Those of us who lived through the 1980s know what a scary time it was to move in gay circles in any of the larger US cities. Reagan and the Moral Majority refused to acknowledge AIDS, or if they did, it was to celebrate the disease as God’s vengeance on homosexuals. Religious bigotry and political shortsightedness cost far too many lives. There has always been a segment of the population who insist that they know exactly what God is thinking, and unsurprisingly it is always exactly the same thing these zealots are thinking in their own narrow minds. We can do better than that. We must do better.

Current listening: Klaus Nomi, Klaus Nomi

Gay Broadway

© 2011 Brian Hutzell

I pull a hyphen from my rear

And I put it right here

Nathan Lane is queer

My hair is over my ears

There are many other queers

On Broadway!

Gay Broadway!

Finally there are words

And they fly like birds

Frisky birds and bees

I'm really rather pleased

That the lines I sneezed

Found a home with the queens

Stealing all the best scenes

On Broadway!

Gay Broadway!

I could write more

But I must close the door

There's going to be a song

Before long!

"Flags"

Brian Hutzell