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Gay and Lesbian Wedding Poems

Love poetry to read at a lesbian or gay wedding.

Illustration by Natalia Vico.

For The More Traditional Ceremony

Planning your gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or queer wedding? You might look at the wedding poems finder or use the lesbian section of the Christian Bible (Ruth 1:16-17) but why not include a queer poem by a queer poet, for maximum queerness? Conveniently, many of the most traditional wedding poems are already by poets who wrote to same sex beloveds, like Shakespeare, Rossetti, Marlowe, and Whitman.

- Song of the Open Road
  Walt Whitman
- O Me! O Life!
  Walt Whitman
- “Hope” is the thing with feathers
  Emily Dickinson
- Voyages
  Hart Crane
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  William Shakespeare
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
  Christopher Marlowe
- You, Therefore
  Reginald Shepherd
- A Birthday
  Christina Rossetti
- Forever – is composed of Nows – (690)
  Emily Dickinson

Celebrating The Non-traditional

Of course, not everyone—not even everyone in a committed relationship—wants to get married or be monogamous. These poems celebrate the good old-fashioned gay values of desire and free love.

- Turbidophilia
  Peter Pereira
- American Wedding
  Essex Hemphill
- A Poem for the Old Man
  John Wieners
- Epithalamium
  Phillip B. Williams

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Turbidophilia