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Charles Tomlinson Griffes (17 September 1884 – 8 April 1920) was an American composer.
Changing Perspectives
His papers passed to his younger sister Marguerite, who chose to destroy many that explicitly related to his life as a homosexual. -- Wikipedia
When his sister read his papers
She was stricken with the vapors.
She was shocked and startled when
She read about his sex with men.
But he’s often played today,
To celebrate that he was gay,
And what his sister tried to hide
Is treated as a source of Pride.
Keep this cheerful fact in view
If you are LGBTQ.
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