{"id":395413,"date":"2023-07-06T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=395413"},"modified":"2023-07-06T06:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:06:58","slug":"an-lgbt-poet-laureate-in-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/an-lgbt-poet-laureate-in-great-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"An LGBT Poet Laureate in Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trudy Howson is the inaugural LGBT+ Poet Laureate in Great Britain since 2016. Her poem, IDAHOT, presented here is an acronym written for International Day Against\u00a0Homophobia and Transphobia. She read it at St. Paul\u2019s\u00a0Cathedral in England and it was featured on national radio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>IDAHOT 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m your brother and sister,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m both Mrs. and Mister,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Gay, Bi, and Transexual,<\/p>\n<p>I am \u2026 myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m your father and mother,<\/p>\n<p>Husband, auntie, friend, and lover<\/p>\n<p>I am different\u2026 and the same,<\/p>\n<p>I am your family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m black, white, pink, \u2026 every hue.<\/p>\n<p>Christian, Muslim, Buddhist \u2026Jew<\/p>\n<p>Skinhead, Goth, Punk, New Romantic,<\/p>\n<p>I am me. I am you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m your district nurse, your teacher,<\/p>\n<p>The boy and girl next door,<\/p>\n<p>Someone in the street,<\/p>\n<p>I am your neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m no better than you, or no worse,<\/p>\n<p>No richer, poorer, blessed, or cursed,<\/p>\n<p>Just part of the same Gravitational Wave,<\/p>\n<p>As you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trudy Howson is the inaugural LGBT+ Poet Laureate in Great Britain since 2016. Her poem,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":387597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3037],"class_list":["post-395413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-great-britain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}