Translating Hate
Category: QUEER VOICES
In a span of 24 hours, about a hundred tweets took the "#ToMyUnbornChild" message and turned into anti-gay vitriol so heinous I couldn't stomach it. I became determined to take back these words of hate, so I began cutting and pasting words from the tweets to create poems.
By Christopher Hennessy, Contributor
Poet and author, 'Our Deep Gossip: Conversations With Gay Writ..., 2012-03-24