Queer Love Poems

Love, like identity, takes all shapes, forms, themes, and patterns. Perhaps for no other community is love more self-defining and confining than the queer community. However, like a term or a category, love is never one-size-fits-all: love can be a garden on the moon, a jar of peanut butter, the slug sublime, or just one happy night. Here is a selection of poems written from and about LGBTQ+ love, passion, sex, loss, and desire.

For more poems about love, explore our archive.