Queer Liberation

Christopher Soto
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Bought a T-shirt with Sylvia Rivera’s face

Spent $50 to hear heterosexuals sing at Pride

Walked quickly past the unhoused

Clutching my Telfar leaving my Tesla

I’m not a capitalist just look at this mustache

Touch on these muscles while I read Judith Butler

I tell you Pride was a riot started in New York in 1969

Even though PRIDE was a collective in Los Angeles that

Protested police brutality outside the Black Cat Tavern in 1967

Too many people are worried about their irrelevance

I’m just worried about how my ass looks on Insta

I mean ending poverty and prisons at my nonprofit

Today I feel more like a brand than a person

Sometimes I wish Marsha P Johnson could spit on these gays

Then I wonder if she would spit on me too

Sometimes I want her spit on me to go viral

But not like that

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