Get Out of Texas

Get Out of Texas

Undergraduate poem

David Matias often associated Texas with oppression. In this poem draft, scribbled on a piece of loose-leaf notebook paper during his time at Trinity University, Matias speaks as if to a lover: “‘Get out of Texas’ we’d cry!” In 1995, addressing a summer class at Harvard, Matias said: “I think I’d be dead today if I hadn’t moved to the [Provincetown] community I live in. I think if I’d lived in San Antonio, I would not be here…not just because literally there wasn’t good healthcare there, but the stigma, the homophobia, I mean, it just eats away at you.”

David Matias

David Matias Papers

Elizabeth Huth Coates Library Special Collections, Trinity University

1979-1983

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