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Music Recs: Love Is Home

Not to get ahead of myself, but this is probably the best mix I have ever made. Not just because I used only great songs which also work together very well, but most of all because of theme of those songs.

I used one of the Twenty-One Love Poems by Adrienne Rich (from the collection “Dream of a Common Language”) as the original description of it & it should tell you better than I ever could, what the theme here is.

I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming.
Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each other,
you’ve been at your desk for hours. I know what I dreamed:
our friend the poet comes into my room
where I’ve been writing for days,
drafts, carbons, poems are scattered everywhere,
and I want to show her one poem
which is the poem of my life. But I hesitate,
and wake. You’ve kissed my hair
to wake me. I dreamed you were a poem,
I say, a poem I wanted to show someone . . .
and I laugh and fall dreaming again
of the desire to show you to everyone I love,
to move openly together
in the pull of gravity, which is not simple,
which carries the feathered grass a long way down the upbreathing air.

I think you will all agree that having someone love you makes you feel like you’re home, safe & sound. And gay love somehow makes that feeling more pronounced. And so here we are! Enjoy, and let me know what you think!

Grow As We Go by Ben Platt (Jewish gay artist)
by my side by LIE NING (half-Black German queer artist)
No One Has To Know by Shy Baldwin (Black gay fictional character)
carry the weight by morgxn (queer artist)

magic by Wrabel (gay artist)
Catching Feelings by Mathew V (gay artist)
Technicolor by Iman (Black queer artist)
Preach by Keiynan Lonsdale (Black queer artist)

home by LIE NING (half-Black German queer artist)
Two Men in Love by The Irrepressibles (band; gay lead singer)
Love Again (Acoustic) by Gregory Dillon (gay artist)

Sensation by Bright Light Bright Light & Jake Shears (gay artists)
this is the part by J.Scott (Black gay artist)
Verdugo by Fields (gay artist)
love you with the lights on by morgxn (queer artist)

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