Everybody’s Gay! [Come With Us To Be Free] by German Alcala – Mini Book Review 4 out of 5 stars Torch-song for those young enough to suffer A group of teenagers pass through the doors of a gay club, past the bouncer and into the spectacular and dreadful company of a drag queen. Inside the club everybody is unconventional, themselves, gay. The world of rules and regulations, with priests, parents and piers, is outside. Inside the club everybody is free just to be. This is a book of poems especially for youth and particularly for gay youth. As the ‘It Gets Better’ campaign has revealed, life for gay youth is not easy; in fact, it can be downright cruel and dangerous. Our youth are suffering and our gay youth suffer much more. These poems are written in the persona of an older gay man who has a protective wish for the young. He is battle scared, but still fighting. In the guise of a drag queen he bellows songs of anger for the torturers, and warbles messages of encouragement to the young. (German Alcala, the poet, is in fact a 15 year old youth.) url.ie/ilic Everybody’s Gay! [Come With Us To Be Free] (Kindle ed.) For the full review please click: raymondmathiesenbookreviews.blogspot.au/
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