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Queeratives
Homage to dykes over the age of thirty-five

with apologies to Linda Barry)

hat are the things you can no longer do?

itchhike to. the Michigan Women’s Festival with only a change of sarongs,

dildo in your pack

Deliver such lines as, ‘Do ya wanna fuck—I mean, do ya wanna dance?

Time your orgasm a la Annie Sprinkle

Feel constant, 24-hours-a-day anger regarding the lesbophobic heter
patriarchy

Use words like lesbophobic

Go toa demo i in support of bare breasts

       
 
 
  

Which of the following 2

Polar fleece and gortex

Flannel sheets, flannel shirts,

Monogamy

Same sex spousal benefits

Selling your nipple clamps, butt plug, and bunny ears vibrator at a garage sale

Which of these things you now know you will never do...

For the Straight Folks who don’t mind Gays
but wish they weren’t so BLATANT

you know some people
got a lot of nerve.
sometimes, i don’t believe
the things i see and hear.

You go in a public bathroom
and all over the walls
there’s John loves Mary,
Janice digs Richard,

Pepe loves Delores, etc. etc.
Have you met the woman

who’s shocked by 2 women kissing

& in the same breath,

tells you that she’s pregnant?

BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE BLATANT.

Or you go to an amusement park
& there’s a tunnel of love

& pictures of straights

painted on the front

Or this straight couple

sits next to you in a movie

& you can’t hear the dialogue
‘cause of the sound effects.

BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE BLATANT’ Fact i is; ies arse

3 are all over the place.
And the woman in your office Supermarkets, movies, on your job,

spends your entire lunch hour in church, in books, on television
talking about her new bikini drawers every d day and night, every place—

& how much her husband likes them. ‘even in gay bars.
BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE BLATANT. / & they want gay men & women

to go hide in the closets—
So to you straight folks
isay — Sure, i'll go
Af you go too,
/ but i’m polite
so —afteryou.

 

Or the “hip” chick in your class,

rattling a mile a minute

while you're trying to get stoned _

in the john

about the camping trip she

with her musician boyfriend.

BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE BLATANT.
Sew

 

BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE BLATANT.

 

Waitress in a doughnut shop in the BC Interior, attending women’s rodeos and lesbian
feminist craftshows in your spare time and developing a carpentry business on the side,

anda

while writing a novel and living in a one-room log cabin at the end of a dirt road, having
sex every night with any one of your six or seven totally fucked up but totally all-natural

lovers, while doing incredijele drugs and eating organic, locally grown

so good so fine so elegant so well.

by Marusya Bociurkiw

A Vancouverite videomaker and the author of The Woman Who Loved Airports.

Her favouriteairport is in Castlegar, BC. Reprinted with permission.

Blue seas wave hello

The water caresses my soul

Oceans there to hold my hand

Still, why am I so sad.

Fire and air rage across

desperately trying to find my loss
changing everything in its path
before the soothing of life’s wrath
Waves of green circle ‘round me
Earthen ground gives back proud trees
Shells that washed up and held you
made the sun even more bright
alas; I see the moon in your eyes.

_ by Kendra Kawalilak

 

by Pat Parker

(used without permission from
Out rage: Dykes and Bi’s Resist
Homophobia 1993)

 

 
 

 

vulnerability does

You do it so good you thirty-something /forty-something dyke who’s laid so many girls fucked
so many dykes blazed a trail of sex right through the community and know a woman’s body

pine EXACTLY.
Bur Fok
CHAOS DT HOM,

Ext £%m our

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