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Wrong Rainbow

By | 2023-12-13T16:03:46-08:00 December 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 142: December 2023|Tags: , , , |

By L. Acadia   Describing our droomhuis for Dutch class, my worksheet filled with my dream house’s garden: Hollyhocks, hydrangea higher than I, wrought iron table for morning coffee, serenading birds, frogs ringing a pond. My love wrote an interior my mind couldn’t fit: puppy-claw impervious tile floors, dormer bedroom, dinner-party primed kitchen, postprandial dancing space. [...]

Two Poems by Nancy Squires

By | 2023-09-04T10:24:44-07:00 September 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 141: September 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

As the Waters Rise   O God, look down On all our drowned. Hear us, we beg— We’re on our knees. Sorry, so sorry About the trees, The polar bears, the birds, The bees; the icebergs Gone, the thirsty lawns, Plastic gyres, redwood Pyres and all the many, many cars. The eclipsed stars We never see. [...]

Birthday Wishes

By | 2023-07-04T08:57:37-07:00 June 15th, 2023|Categories: Issue 140: June 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

By Phoenix Ning   Sixteen-year-old person of color desires escape from this inferno where dark-skinned individuals burn, and alabaster spectators cheer from the sidelines, popping confetti guns and feeding oil to ancient flames while claiming to be long-awaited saviors. Eighteen-year-old student desires world history classes with curriculums that celebrate African kingdoms, Indigenous empires, and South Asian [...]

Vile Affections

By | 2023-03-09T12:44:05-08:00 March 15th, 2023|Categories: Issue 139: 16 March 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

By Soon Jones   I grow up in a Florida church being warned about god-hating bull dykes and sissy fairy fags leaving the natural use of the woman, which is sex, because all a woman is good for is sex and tempting men. Yet when a woman tempts another woman somehow that is not about sex, [...]

Sip-In: 1966

By | 2021-06-18T12:53:10-07:00 June 19th, 2021|Categories: Issue 131: 19 June 2021|Tags: , , , , , |

By Jesse Mavro Diamond   For LGBT Rights Activist Dick Leitsch   Carpenters, bankers, bricklayers, undertakers. Why gay bars? Because we could only be gay In gay bars. The N.Y. State Liquor Authority CEO: no discrimination in bars. Why? because bars had the right to refuse customers not acting suitably. Therefore, disorderly. Bankers, bricklayers, undertakers, carpenters. [...]

Reparative Therapy

By | 2019-02-18T20:30:45-08:00 February 21st, 2019|Categories: Issue 81: 21 February 2019|Tags: , , , |

By Dein Sofley   It’s not that there’s anything wrong with you. It’s just that, well, you know ... it’s normal to have sexual feelings. Our bodies were made to procreate. Reproduce. Have babies. When you’re married. It’s just that a man and a woman, they fit together, by design. See? A woman provides the egg and [...]