Its Not Easy Being Green

I thought if we were all green...
there would be no more racism...
But then I thought, surely there would be
some light green, some grass green, some
very dark mossy green...
and the dark mossy green would be the
new black.

When I first came out (of the closet that is)
I experienced racism in the gay "community"...
and was shocked.
How could those who were so despised by
the straight world mistreat their own?
That was 1976.

Almost 30 years later...
I hear that a bar in the Gay Mecca of San Francisco
is dicriminating against people of color and women.
How could that be?

It's not easy being GREEN.