by Austin Scott

“It’s Liza with a ‘Z’ not Lisa with an ‘S’ ‘cause Lisa with an ‘S’ goes…” I twirl around and point with both index fingers to the man next to me.  He is in ...

by Bruce Ransom

After picking up my 72-year-young mother at LAX, we arrived at my apartment in West Hollywood. Walking up the steps to my building, me carrying her huge luggage (bigger than her 5...

It was at the airport check-in counter that I first saw him. Sweatpants and a sweater. I can’t remember his face anymore. Waiting to board the plane, all I could do was look at ...

by Danielle S.

I’m a late bloomer. I came out…(I always have to figure it up) 16 years ago, when i was 33. Between one moment and the next, one as a straight person, the next as a…not stra...

That’s the way it feels sometimes. Disgusting. I’ve just been reading I’m From Driftwood. Before that I was masturbating. I stopped. It felt disgusting. Not the physical ac...

by Kelley Halvorson

FEATURED ARTIST – Brian Ness STORY by Kelley Halvorson It was 1976, the year I won a Soprano spot in the North Dakota State Honors Choir. A small-town gal, I was thrilled to ha...

by Whittier Strong

RRRRIIIPP! I checked for the source of the sound, and felt a small hole in the crotch of my jeans.  “Fifteen hours,” I assured myself.  “Fifteen hours, and I can unpack my...

by David B.

“You guys look like faggots,” I heard someone say in the general direction of where I was standing with a friend. Not a standard greeting, to say the least. This comment confu...

by "Sammy the K"

Twelve years old. That’s how old I was when I had a dream that absolutely changed my life. One night when I went to sleep, I went into my typical dreamscape, but this one was di...