and right in the middle she had the grace to thank "straight allies" - she didn't need to...it isn't hard to be an ally - just to be a decent human...but she did. This poem is wonderfully honest, full of rightful outrage and yet very inviting and nurturing in just the right ways. Thank you so much for sharing it!
When I came out I actually took the door off my closet and threw it in a bonfire and replaced the empty space with a pride flag, that was the most empowering thing I have ever done..
mystiquegem, my mom said we don’t have a door for your closet yet and I said I don’t want one. She had no idea why. I wanted to make it easy to come out. One week later I came out
What's so bad about being uncomfortable around gay people, yes they are people however imagine that you are a Christian and that you know that being gay is wrong, and you see a gay person, is it wrong to see something you know is bad and be uncomfortable? I think not, homophobia is fine and there is nothing wrong with that.
@@CharlesSeipke I would love to debate with you to change your mind and show that true Christianity does not show that homosexuality is wrong, but I'm tired of this fight. I tired of constantly having to prove to people that were not monsters. At this point, I just feel sorry for you. I hope that maybe one day you'll understand. I hope your children can understand. I'm sorry.
ReTeX Gaming Homophobia is harmful and drives people to suicide. How is it fine? You people really like the cherrypick the Bible and decide which parts you want to follow huh? What happened to ‘love thy neighbor’?
The lunchroom part hit different for me. A homophobic and transphobic boy sometimes sits at “my” table and he just calls me out for being non-binary and pan the whole time. I’m sitting there and he is talking about me and says she, I politely correct. He then just kept getting louder and louder with the same sentence using feminine pronouns for me. My friends just sat there in the silence listening to him. Except for one. She went off on him. My other friends saying she’s being over dramatic. She goes with me to another lunch table but the fight continues. I’m sitting there in tears wanting to punch him with all my strength. It wasn’t him that hurt though, I expected it from him. It was my friends just sitting there yelling at me and the people helping me at the other table that we were being over dramatic. I tried to act like it didn’t bother me but that just made it worse. My friends also told my gender fluid friend to just pick a gender and that there are only two or three genders. It hurts, they wouldn’t understand though because the only thing that they were ever proud about accomplishing is being able to do the renegade. I’m being serious. My best dreams were me coming out to my whole family and all of them being so so supportive. That’s not going to happen. My grandmas uncle is gay, the family didn’t like that. I just want to go to a store once and instead of the cashier saying that my mom has nice daughters I want them to say what nice kids or going to a restaurant instead of saying is this for her, them ask me for my pronouns or say is this for them because that would make me so so happy. It would be the first time I haven’t been misgendered in public. I want a pin saying my pronouns just so I have the right to correct people when they say she. Thank you if you read this far
I love Denice! She has a gorgeous soul and she is beautiful. She speaks the words of truth. Chills every time I hear her voice. Her voice is so clear and crisp. All the love and respect in the world, Denice! ❤️❤️
Thank you!! I am a lesbian and when people stare at me like I’m fucking crazy I get so mad! At Starbucks yesterday the boy at the counter was flirting with me but after I got my coffee I sat on my girlfriends lap and gave her a sexy kiss while the guy was looking at me... it felt great!
Stinky Chamberlain If no one gives a shit then why are you even commenting? Obviously you give enough shit to come and spread hate where it’s not wanted. Go be edgy somewhere else honey.
This guy at my school said “I fucking hate when people say their pan or bi or ace or some bullshit like that! You can only be gay, straight, or a lesbian.” I told him “well you can like boys and girls and-“ he cut me off and said “you say the dumbest shit sometimes” wtf
Wasn't gonna comment but the comment section be clowning so here I am to even it out a bit: this woman is preaching truth and I may or may not have a little bit of a crush on her 😳
Dear unnecessarily loud audience, This is a brilliant poem...shame we can barely hear half of it because of the idiots hollering at every line before she can even finish her sentence. You can see that it's putting her off too when she has to pause mid-sentence all the time, just to be heard. We know you're appreciating her work, but it's more effective if you give your applause at the end; rather than interrupting her performance so much. That is all, thanks.
Straight women who like to flirt with lesbians for the attention or want to experiment with them but insist that they are straight and view it as a sort of fun and entertaining thing
I remember in school this girl asked me out and I said yes and then only a couple hours later EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE in the school knew. They all would talk about it and ask me questions and i used to say yes in m dating her and then they would walk off whispering to each other. I'm an introvert all that attention on me and my relationship with this other person caused me strain and fear when someone asked to talk to me I felt fear every time. the relationship only lasted a month so that's that but I used to walk the halls in fear. I was so scared that I completely stopped talking to people unless it was to answer questions from the teacher. There was this one kid that would walk right next to me and shove me to her and said "why don't you stand next to your girlfriend". After they said that I started to slowly distance myself from her and that led to our break up. They would say everything that I do is gay and I'm not even gay I'm bisexual. So I lost full confidence in myself to walk down the halls proud to be in a relationship with her an we broke up. To tell you the truth we didn't ever hold hands not even hug each other everytime she tried I would either go further away from her or speed up so to this person sorry. Those kids made things super uncomfortable
I know, and she knows. I'm sorry if this poem offended you in any way, but even though it's called "Dear straight people", I think she meant the splinter group of straight people who ARE homophobic. I know that it might seem like she was talking to all straight people, but she really wasn't. She even thanked straight allies 😀
dear people, i'm not sure who i should hate? i have a lot of problems but i'm not sure to antagonize. if i'm straight and white and male can i rail against other straight whites or do i need to hate mexicans or gays or something? does it just depend what part of the country? i want people to cheer for my problems. sorry if its a dumb question also loved the poem! im so sorry!
straight, cis, white males have problems as well. you can still write about your problems. you don't have to hate certain groups of people just because society tells you that you must. you are you. nobody can change that except yourself.
Ethan you don't need to hate anyone. The only thing you need to do is understand that you are in no way able to understand or know how it feels to be something other then a white cishet male. You can help with stoppning homophobia,transphobia etc, but you also need to let us fight our battles ourselves. We want to win because we can, not because of someone that's "the top of the pyramid". And you have other typer of problems, that you too can write about but those problems are probably other typer of problems, that don't have a lot to do with the lgbtqia+ and other commuenities. Thank you for asking, and sorry if My english was incorrect. It isn't My first languege :) -A queer woman /Demi-girl
Huh, I think that it should, instead of being 'Dear Straight People', be 'Dear (insert every single phobia towards gender/sexuality/sex)'. Because, well, not all Straight People are uncomfortable around people in the LGBTQ+ community, most of the straight people that I know support it. But, what I think should go there is a mouthful and wouldn't really fit well in a poem. I'm not raging against this poem or the person behind it. I'm just like everyone else here, stating my opinion. I'm sorry if I offended anyone, that was not my goal.
I'm glad that most of your straight friends/acquaintances aren't homophobes, but most people aren't so lucky. Most straight people are - in one form or another - homophobes. It's just what it is. And she does acknowledge those that don't with her "dear straight allies" bit. But the thing is that straight people have a lot of privilege, and when they don't use that privilege for good things (which is the most common thing to happen in my experience), they're not doing what they can and should. ((similar to when white people aren't directly racist but sit by and let racism happen all around them when they have the privilege, power, and influence to do something about it)) Thank you for everything. :)
Dude this is slam poetry. To be a good performer, you have to express your emotions clearly. She is just expressing how certain things make her feel, she obviously doesn't randomly scream at straight people in public.
women who flirt or have sex with other women simply for "fun" - not even for experimentation - while vehemently insisting the whole time they're 100% straight.
regardless of the percentage of homophobic straight people to straight allies (which is, by the way, nowhere near balanced), she did acknowledge straight people who aren't homophobic. very clearly. furthermore, all straight people are naturally very, very privileged. if one isn't an ally, one is not using that privilege to do good things.
I think this is a message to straight people: a smack in the face to the homophobes, something to acknowledge for neutral people, and a thank you for allies. I mean, that’s what I saw, agree to disagree.
(And Kyro, I think it’s like that Netflix show Dear White People. It’s literally pointing out privilege, and making the racists and homophobes pissed, cause they know it and they’re being called out for their hate and prejudice. I’m not gay, but I’m not upset. This is something to learn from. I’m not gay, but I know what that pain feels like. This is an inspiration. Sorry, agree to disagree.)
"Dear straight people your the reason we stay in the closet your the reason we even have a closet I DONT LIKE CLOSETS "
Thank you
So what are straight people supposed to do? Die?
@@emme3734 straight (homophobic) people*
Bro I’m straight I better get gassed
Emme how about not assume someone is straight at birth let’s start there.
She speaks lightning and spits thunder. Preach Denice.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
and right in the middle she had the grace to thank "straight allies" - she didn't need to...it isn't hard to be an ally - just to be a decent human...but she did. This poem is wonderfully honest, full of rightful outrage and yet very inviting and nurturing in just the right ways. Thank you so much for sharing it!
"Why do I make you uncomfortable?"
Because all people make me uncomfortable.
Me too.
Amen.
mEE
it's pretty easy to tell whether a person seems uncomfortable with me being gay or if they're just uncomfortable with people in general
SAME
When I came out I actually took the door off my closet and threw it in a bonfire and replaced the empty space with a pride flag, that was the most empowering thing I have ever done..
mystiquegem, my mom said we don’t have a door for your closet yet and I said I don’t want one. She had no idea why. I wanted to make it easy to come out. One week later I came out
THATS GENIUS AND SOUNDS SO LIBERATING AAAH I WISH I COULD DO THAT (my closet actually doesn’t have a door)
u look at me like I'm gonna rob u now I wanna fricken rob u
Dear anyone who is bifobic and says I should choose
No
Omg, preach!!! I feel ya, and will pepper spray the next person who tells me I need to choose/stop being confused/not go through my phases
Sameee
just say boi i already did i choose both
IHaveCripplingAnxiety really true I just like both deal with it I can find a relationship faster than freaking straight people can so frick you
YES
I listen to this so much. I am straight, but homophobia is stupid~
Cameron Camden how?
What's so bad about being uncomfortable around gay people, yes they are people however imagine that you are a Christian and that you know that being gay is wrong, and you see a gay person, is it wrong to see something you know is bad and be uncomfortable? I think not, homophobia is fine and there is nothing wrong with that.
@@CharlesSeipke I would love to debate with you to change your mind and show that true Christianity does not show that homosexuality is wrong, but I'm tired of this fight. I tired of constantly having to prove to people that were not monsters. At this point, I just feel sorry for you. I hope that maybe one day you'll understand. I hope your children can understand. I'm sorry.
Heteroni and cheese
ReTeX Gaming Homophobia is harmful and drives people to suicide. How is it fine? You people really like the cherrypick the Bible and decide which parts you want to follow huh? What happened to ‘love thy neighbor’?
She is my new best friend, where can I buy one of her?
I love this
It's hilarious
It's straight forward
This is what i think on a daily basis
@@alicia78421 LOL
The lunchroom part hit different for me. A homophobic and transphobic boy sometimes sits at “my” table and he just calls me out for being non-binary and pan the whole time. I’m sitting there and he is talking about me and says she, I politely correct. He then just kept getting louder and louder with the same sentence using feminine pronouns for me. My friends just sat there in the silence listening to him. Except for one. She went off on him. My other friends saying she’s being over dramatic. She goes with me to another lunch table but the fight continues. I’m sitting there in tears wanting to punch him with all my strength. It wasn’t him that hurt though, I expected it from him. It was my friends just sitting there yelling at me and the people helping me at the other table that we were being over dramatic. I tried to act like it didn’t bother me but that just made it worse. My friends also told my gender fluid friend to just pick a gender and that there are only two or three genders. It hurts, they wouldn’t understand though because the only thing that they were ever proud about accomplishing is being able to do the renegade. I’m being serious. My best dreams were me coming out to my whole family and all of them being so so supportive. That’s not going to happen. My grandmas uncle is gay, the family didn’t like that. I just want to go to a store once and instead of the cashier saying that my mom has nice daughters I want them to say what nice kids or going to a restaurant instead of saying is this for her, them ask me for my pronouns or say is this for them because that would make me so so happy. It would be the first time I haven’t been misgendered in public. I want a pin saying my pronouns just so I have the right to correct people when they say she. Thank you if you read this far
Nice I like this slower pace of performance.
I love Denice! She has a gorgeous soul and she is beautiful. She speaks the words of truth. Chills every time I hear her voice. Her voice is so clear and crisp. All the love and respect in the world, Denice! ❤️❤️
BRØKĘÑ do u know if she has a social media or UA-cam channel
Thank you!! I am a lesbian and when people stare at me like I’m fucking crazy I get so mad! At Starbucks yesterday the boy at the counter was flirting with me but after I got my coffee I sat on my girlfriends lap and gave her a sexy kiss while the guy was looking at me... it felt great!
Every single time I hear this poem I get constant chills. It’s beautifully done. Beautifully.
I'm a straight ally and I love this
LadyChemicalEngineer yesss
No one gives a shit
Thank you
Alicia Fuller what?😂
Stinky Chamberlain If no one gives a shit then why are you even commenting? Obviously you give enough shit to come and spread hate where it’s not wanted. Go be edgy somewhere else honey.
Goodness I love Denice! ❤️
I love this poem
I'm crying this is beautiful
I watched this a hundred times and it still gives me goosebumps! I love it so much!!❤❤❤
This guy at my school said “I fucking hate when people say their pan or bi or ace or some bullshit like that! You can only be gay, straight, or a lesbian.” I told him “well you can like boys and girls and-“ he cut me off and said “you say the dumbest shit sometimes” wtf
Rule Braking Mutt as a Pansexual, I kinda wanna hit him across the face.
As a polysexual I wanna kick him in the balls
MJ Cece he actually got kicked in the balls the other day by some girl XD
As a bisexual I want to join these comments by injuring this guy somehow.
thank u for being the one to speak the truth
Love this poem
Lady in the back was n her phone so respectful
Glad they taped it, whoever taped it!
Roast em
But im still straight
Faith IsNotAlive:😐.... Ay bro,i just did what felt right at the moment😂
Heteroni and cheese
Friendly Neighborhood Bisexual They’re saying they’re a straight ally. Chill dude.
I thought you where part of an og ghost but how your a cod decrease
Wasn't gonna comment but the comment section be clowning so here I am to even it out a bit: this woman is preaching truth and I may or may not have a little bit of a crush on her 😳
Girl in background on her phone like, you got dis imma update my twitter.
Dear straight women,
Oh, I mean "S T R A I G H T" women,
That killed me
Oh my god this is so funny! "Sniffed too much glue in 5th grade" lol
No words just woah👌👌
Powerful strong words with a lot of humour in there!
This is one of my fave poems I posted it on amino and it was pretty popular
I LOVE THISSSSS
I’m straight but this was a pretty good laugh. In a good way, like I agree with her
I’m strait, I uh. I have nothing against homosexuals. I support the lgbt community! She’s an amazing speaker. Great woman.
I love this poem it is awesome
U nailed it girl ❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥👊👊👊👊👊
Dear unnecessarily loud audience,
This is a brilliant poem...shame we can barely hear half of it because of the idiots hollering at every line before she can even finish her sentence. You can see that it's putting her off too when she has to pause mid-sentence all the time, just to be heard. We know you're appreciating her work, but it's more effective if you give your applause at the end; rather than interrupting her performance so much. That is all, thanks.
The lady in the back 😂
HOLY SHIT THIS WAS AMAZING
Ima straight woman. Im hurt that she feels that all straight women look at her that way. A lovely poem.
aleia lockridge she didn't mean real straight women, by "Straight Women" she means Bi-Curious Women
Hands down best poem in history
I'm straight but this girl totally makes me wanna change my sexuality. Honestly, I love her. Amen to that entire poem!
EYYYYYY
PREEEECH
I love this
Preach girl preach
who was dat gurl in the background on her phone the whole time????!!!! XD
Omg I loved this and sent it to my stright friend.. but all I have to say about this is bootful
What exactly does she mean by 'straight women'
Straight women who like to flirt with lesbians for the attention or want to experiment with them but insist that they are straight and view it as a sort of fun and entertaining thing
Bi-Curious Women, most lesbians and BiSexual women are uncomfortable around, them for so many reasons.- Coming from experience and a BiSexual
Omigah i luh her
Dear straight women. I mean "straight women"😂😂😭😭
I remember in school this girl asked me out and I said yes and then only a couple hours later EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE in the school knew. They all would talk about it and ask me questions and i used to say yes in m dating her and then they would walk off whispering to each other. I'm an introvert all that attention on me and my relationship with this other person caused me strain and fear when someone asked to talk to me I felt fear every time. the relationship only lasted a month so that's that but I used to walk the halls in fear. I was so scared that I completely stopped talking to people unless it was to answer questions from the teacher. There was this one kid that would walk right next to me and shove me to her and said "why don't you stand next to your girlfriend". After they said that I started to slowly distance myself from her and that led to our break up. They would say everything that I do is gay and I'm not even gay I'm bisexual. So I lost full confidence in myself to walk down the halls proud to be in a relationship with her an we broke up. To tell you the truth we didn't ever hold hands not even hug each other everytime she tried I would either go further away from her or speed up so to this person sorry. Those kids made things super uncomfortable
Not all strait people are homophobic
I know, and she knows. I'm sorry if this poem offended you in any way, but even though it's called "Dear straight people", I think she meant the splinter group of straight people who ARE homophobic. I know that it might seem like she was talking to all straight people, but she really wasn't. She even thanked straight allies 😀
she’s so fine 😻
2:15 DID YOU JUST ASSUME GOD'S FRICKIN' GENDER!?!?
god can be anything you want god to be.
God is male
I loveeee this
I can't believe the woman sitting beside her was able to contain herself!
I'm straight, but this is great
Amen.
dear people,
i'm not sure who i should hate?
i have a lot of problems but i'm not sure to antagonize.
if i'm straight and white and male can i rail against other straight whites
or do i need to hate mexicans or gays or something?
does it just depend what part of the country?
i want people to cheer for my problems.
sorry if its a dumb question
also loved the poem! im so sorry!
Ethan just don't hate, there's no need for it
Good advice. Thanks friend.
Ethan don't antagonize anyone (except umbridge [sorry if u don't get the reference I'm a book nerd])
straight, cis, white males have problems as well. you can still write about your problems. you don't have to hate certain groups of people just because society tells you that you must. you are you. nobody can change that except yourself.
Ethan you don't need to hate anyone. The only thing you need to do is understand that you are in no way able to understand or know how it feels to be something other then a white cishet male. You can help with stoppning homophobia,transphobia etc, but you also need to let us fight our battles ourselves. We want to win because we can, not because of someone that's "the top of the pyramid". And you have other typer of problems, that you too can write about but those problems are probably other typer of problems, that don't have a lot to do with the lgbtqia+ and other commuenities.
Thank you for asking, and sorry if My english was incorrect. It isn't My first languege :)
-A queer woman /Demi-girl
Thank u
Beautiful
To be fair accepting is just a very decent human manner for people which cishet people cannot understand
GO OFF!
im fucking in love
👏👏👏👏
I am a strait aly!
Huh, I think that it should, instead of being 'Dear Straight People', be 'Dear (insert every single phobia towards gender/sexuality/sex)'. Because, well, not all Straight People are uncomfortable around people in the LGBTQ+ community, most of the straight people that I know support it. But, what I think should go there is a mouthful and wouldn't really fit well in a poem.
I'm not raging against this poem or the person behind it. I'm just like everyone else here, stating my opinion.
I'm sorry if I offended anyone, that was not my goal.
I'm glad that most of your straight friends/acquaintances aren't homophobes, but most people aren't so lucky. Most straight people are - in one form or another - homophobes. It's just what it is. And she does acknowledge those that don't with her "dear straight allies" bit. But the thing is that straight people have a lot of privilege, and when they don't use that privilege for good things (which is the most common thing to happen in my experience), they're not doing what they can and should. ((similar to when white people aren't directly racist but sit by and let racism happen all around them when they have the privilege, power, and influence to do something about it)) Thank you for everything. :)
Its so sad that I can relate to all of this. I wish the world would except us as humans and not deceased aliens.
I sexually identify as a chocolate cake
All for laughs guys don’t take it to seriously
In that case, I sexually identify as a rainbow cupcake dressed in drag because I'm that gay.
@@canniglow LOL yesss 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
😂 this was awesome🔥
This is a pretty presumptuous speech
Imagine being cisgender and heterosexual.
1:31 "WHY DO I MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE", maybe because you're shouting
Why do you think she has to? Just curious. Cause like things don't happen without reason.
Hmm, I wonder why shes mad...
Dude this is slam poetry. To be a good performer, you have to express your emotions clearly. She is just expressing how certain things make her feel, she obviously doesn't randomly scream at straight people in public.
Why did she say dear straight woman in quotations? was that supposed to mean something?
women who flirt or have sex with other women simply for "fun" - not even for experimentation - while vehemently insisting the whole time they're 100% straight.
S M oh okay thanks
Alaina Delsignore she’s implying that straight women aren’t actually straight
@@INSHEPTION Uh, no. Not really...
Why do I act uncomfortable? Cause I'm afraid of clowns.
Dude we ain't Pennywise. Calm down. xD
What? Dayum I made a poem and had to change pronouns so it wouldn't be too obvious ... TONS OF 'EM. 😒
.....I'm straight.😶
hi?
S M hey
Buts its not all strait people.
PEOPLE NEED TO STOP CLAPPING
wtf?
I agree with this kinda it just seems to kind of imply that all straight people are homophobic
regardless of the percentage of homophobic straight people to straight allies (which is, by the way, nowhere near balanced), she did acknowledge straight people who aren't homophobic. very clearly. furthermore, all straight people are naturally very, very privileged. if one isn't an ally, one is not using that privilege to do good things.
I think this is a message to straight people: a smack in the face to the homophobes, something to acknowledge for neutral people, and a thank you for allies. I mean, that’s what I saw, agree to disagree.
(And Kyro, I think it’s like that Netflix show Dear White People. It’s literally pointing out privilege, and making the racists and homophobes pissed, cause they know it and they’re being called out for their hate and prejudice. I’m not gay, but I’m not upset. This is something to learn from. I’m not gay, but I know what that pain feels like. This is an inspiration. Sorry, agree to disagree.)
She did say dear straight allies
If it doesn’t apply let it fly
Not all straight people are homophobic. 😂. Should of said dear homophobics
but that's not the point of the poem. Straight people don't have to be outright homophobic to make our lives difficult.
@@ainsley6244 Bffr
@@micahc7217 Dude, I'm saying this out of personal experience...
FVD
Dear Angry Lesbians
Kinda hypocritical when she said the lines “Dear straight woman” and “Dear straight men”
DEAR GAYS DONT SHIVE GAYNESS DOWN OUR THROATS
Dear straights, stop shoving straightness down our throats ❤ y'all started it
Dear gay people watch out for an lmg for the next couple of years🤭
I HATE THIS POEM!!!!
it didn't rhyme
why... why didn't it rhyme!
If you haven't noticed, not all poems are required to rhyme.
Kayla Alves i know... but im a pissed off 5 year old holding my mom's iphone
***** it was a fucking joke JEEZ!!
***** you are an insult to youtube
BillNyeThe SciencePie
Dumb ass! It doesn't have to rhyme! Words have meaning without it rhyming. But apparently you don't understand that!
is this a man or a girl
does it matter?
thanks for ruining my morning
Jonathan Zirkel how? This made my day
This made my life. Sorry about your ignorant morning I'm to happy right now
Please no...