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LGBTQ+

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  • Poem
    By Brandon Young
    My father said to me once your only choices are the factories. Oil stains or the selfsame bruises. No...
  • Poem
    By Brandon Young
    Oh, don’t worry, we will let our hair down tonight— but first we must remember on this stage, the queen...
  • Poem
    By R. Erica Doyle
    letting the words fly like smoke uncurling from our mouths we lie in bed with dykes ten years our junior...
  • Poem
    By Cyrus Cassells
    My friend is by no means Dracula or a werewolf, but the full moon’s mostly lawless beauty has never ...
  • Poem
    By Melvin Dixon
    The children in the life: Another telephone call. Another man gone. How many pages are left in my diary...
  • Poem
    By Bruce Snider
    No matter who leads tonight, who follows, I feel his stare as we work the floor. He swaggers from heel...
  • Poem
    By Timothy Liu
    Coming back from the ski trip in the back of a van, it had gotten dark enough for the steady hum of ...
  • Poem
    By Stacie Cassarino
    I admired the sea, most days, but not the heirs or millionaires sailing in stiff-capped winds, buttoned...
  • Poem
    By Trish Salah
    i. Dog. The time you take home, the time you take away from home. The insistence, the instance worried...
  • Poem
    By Richie Hofmann
    My sweat soaked the sheets. You used to be like everyone else but then the way you hurt me (fingers,...
  • Poem
    By Assotto Saint
    where do you find strength to climb down the hill to your lover’s grave what do you bring but thirteen...
  • Poem
    By Assotto Saint
    hooked up to the same pole i.v. garlands of cytovene & pentamidine unravel queer patterns of a survival...
  • Poem
    By Assotto Saint
    his shades of blossoms ties that thread-thin silver bells bracelet always laced round his left wrist...
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