JUNE 2026 / ISSUE 52

Orion

by LJ Jensen

It’s been years since top surgery, and my chest is still numb. The nerve endings never healed. I picture the skin outside my heart woven together with…

Holding Hands: Three Essays

by Ed Wolf

I worked in the typesetting division of George Litho with seven other gay men when I began the Shanti AIDS Volunteer Training in San Francisco in 1983…

HVNGRY for more

by Valerie Reding

Welcome to our pantheon of queer icons, where otherness, diversity and vulnerability are nurtured, shared and celebrated. We are HVNGRY for more…

All That Distance, Still Arriving

by Arya Samuelson

To be in bed with the woman you love at five in the afternoon, five-thirty, six. To become the Milky Way, shuddering, smeared with stars. Contained, yet…

June, Eating

by Zoë Fay-Stindt

The grass beats its edges
on wind: in a great/white surge the moths
rise overnight: I watch…

Riding on the Backs of Giants

by Sharon Pink

We gather our helmets and stuff them into our ally’s ride-along car. Two beloveds pop by to hug and share mutual admiration for our leather. They will lead the…