Contributors
Joshua Barton
Joshua Barton is a queer writer, artist, photographer, and journalist documenting queer life and love in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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Joshua Barton is a queer writer, artist, photographer, and journalist documenting queer life and love in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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Pablo Cáceres
While typically utilizing live models for both his traditional medium and digital art works, Pablo Cáceres captures the human form using a range of themes from queer to Gothic and playful to solemn. Pablo’s preferred medium is acrylic painting and collage. His art has been featured on MTV’s Music Experiment, PQ Monthly, Vancouver Vector, Queer Voices and appeared in galleries throughout the region. Born in the United States to Chilean immigrants in 1979, Pablo has been a resident of the Portland metropolitan area for over 20 years. He is known by his friends and within his local art community as “Pablito”. This nickname was given to him as a child by his family and is what he currently uses to sign his artwork.
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While typically utilizing live models for both his traditional medium and digital art works, Pablo Cáceres captures the human form using a range of themes from queer to Gothic and playful to solemn. Pablo’s preferred medium is acrylic painting and collage. His art has been featured on MTV’s Music Experiment, PQ Monthly, Vancouver Vector, Queer Voices and appeared in galleries throughout the region. Born in the United States to Chilean immigrants in 1979, Pablo has been a resident of the Portland metropolitan area for over 20 years. He is known by his friends and within his local art community as “Pablito”. This nickname was given to him as a child by his family and is what he currently uses to sign his artwork.
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Wes Fanelli
Wes Fanelli currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA. His work is informed through personal exploration of the queer family and potentiality for love and belonging. Fanelli’s staged events recall eroticized versions of family dinners from the traditional Catholic household of his upbringing, retold starring his inner circle of friends. Through painting and drawing, his events are translated into thick layers of memory, longing, and a hope for validation. His drawings become love letters. Fanelli received his BA in Studio Art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2006 and his MFA in Studio Practice from California College of the Arts in 2013. His group exhibitions include the “22nd Annual Juried Exhibition” and “CAC East Side Projects” at the Contemporary Arts Collective in Las Vegas, Nevada, “Tear it Out” at Issues in Oakland, CA, and “Doing Your Dirty Work” at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco, CA.
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Wes Fanelli currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA. His work is informed through personal exploration of the queer family and potentiality for love and belonging. Fanelli’s staged events recall eroticized versions of family dinners from the traditional Catholic household of his upbringing, retold starring his inner circle of friends. Through painting and drawing, his events are translated into thick layers of memory, longing, and a hope for validation. His drawings become love letters. Fanelli received his BA in Studio Art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2006 and his MFA in Studio Practice from California College of the Arts in 2013. His group exhibitions include the “22nd Annual Juried Exhibition” and “CAC East Side Projects” at the Contemporary Arts Collective in Las Vegas, Nevada, “Tear it Out” at Issues in Oakland, CA, and “Doing Your Dirty Work” at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco, CA.
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Michael Horwitz
Michael Horwitz is an artist and comic editor based in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Virginia, he made his first paper doll set at age 8. He received his BFA in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts and his MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Before moving to Portland he worked as an editor at Marvel Comics, where he oversaw adaptations of Stephen King’s The Stand and The Dark Tower.
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Michael Horwitz is an artist and comic editor based in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Virginia, he made his first paper doll set at age 8. He received his BFA in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts and his MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Before moving to Portland he worked as an editor at Marvel Comics, where he oversaw adaptations of Stephen King’s The Stand and The Dark Tower.
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Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco
Since publishing “Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers” (Arsenal Pulp Press 2001) and “Killing Me Softly” (Suspect Thoughts Press 2004), Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco has been called one of Canada’s queer enfant terrible writers. He keeps penning brazen nonfiction, his last gambit is in a memoir book titled “Giving It Raw: Nearly 30 Years with AIDS” (Transgress Press 2014). For Francisco, living in Canada since 1985 has been living and writing with HIV. His prose is pert, pithy and picante. He now lives in Toronto where he works as an educator and scientist.
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Since publishing “Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers” (Arsenal Pulp Press 2001) and “Killing Me Softly” (Suspect Thoughts Press 2004), Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco has been called one of Canada’s queer enfant terrible writers. He keeps penning brazen nonfiction, his last gambit is in a memoir book titled “Giving It Raw: Nearly 30 Years with AIDS” (Transgress Press 2014). For Francisco, living in Canada since 1985 has been living and writing with HIV. His prose is pert, pithy and picante. He now lives in Toronto where he works as an educator and scientist.
givingitraw.ca
Grahame Perry
Grahame Perry is a San Francisco/Bay Area photographer creating interesting and artful images. He is drawn especially to street photography, urban landscapes, community, travel, and night photography. Returning to school in the mid-2000’s, he discovered a passion for photography and went on to complete an A.S. in Photography from CCSF. In the last several years, he has been Inspired towards image-making through photography. He has exhibited individually and participated in numerous group shows and as part of the 81 Bees Photo Collective. The image Clean/ Dirty in Faggot Journal is from his series Am I Blue? which explores HIV and long term survival, hope and regret, joy and fear. His visual images capture the struggles that might exist alongside well-being and gratitude, showing the many ways that this experience has created unexpected symbols and unforeseen reactions. The photographs from the Am I Blue? series have also appeared in gallery shows at the Grunwald Art Gallery, SF Cameraworks, and Rayko Photo Center. Excerpts from the series have been published in RFD Magazine (Summer 2014) and in Visual AIDS Web Gallery (Sept. 2014).
GrahamePerryPhotography.com
Grahame Perry is a San Francisco/Bay Area photographer creating interesting and artful images. He is drawn especially to street photography, urban landscapes, community, travel, and night photography. Returning to school in the mid-2000’s, he discovered a passion for photography and went on to complete an A.S. in Photography from CCSF. In the last several years, he has been Inspired towards image-making through photography. He has exhibited individually and participated in numerous group shows and as part of the 81 Bees Photo Collective. The image Clean/ Dirty in Faggot Journal is from his series Am I Blue? which explores HIV and long term survival, hope and regret, joy and fear. His visual images capture the struggles that might exist alongside well-being and gratitude, showing the many ways that this experience has created unexpected symbols and unforeseen reactions. The photographs from the Am I Blue? series have also appeared in gallery shows at the Grunwald Art Gallery, SF Cameraworks, and Rayko Photo Center. Excerpts from the series have been published in RFD Magazine (Summer 2014) and in Visual AIDS Web Gallery (Sept. 2014).
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Tim Rains
Tim Rains is a photographer, writer, and composer. After five years working in National Parks in Alaska, he moved to Portland, Oregon, to seek community and art where he sang with the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus. After a year of “lunching with the ladies”, he returned to work as a media specialist for Glacier National Park where he is rediscovering his love of wild places. Through his journalistic art he seeks to connect people with the raw poetry of the earth and the vulnerability of the human experience.
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Tim Rains is a photographer, writer, and composer. After five years working in National Parks in Alaska, he moved to Portland, Oregon, to seek community and art where he sang with the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus. After a year of “lunching with the ladies”, he returned to work as a media specialist for Glacier National Park where he is rediscovering his love of wild places. Through his journalistic art he seeks to connect people with the raw poetry of the earth and the vulnerability of the human experience.
rangerrains.com
Simon Sheppard
Simon Sheppard ‘s many books include Man on Man: The Best of Simon Sheppard; Homosex: Sixty Years of Gay Erotica, which won the Lambda Literary Award; Hotter than Hell and Other Stories, winner of the Erotica Authors Association Award; Sodomy!; The Dirty Boys’ Club; and Jockboys. He is also the author of well over 300 published stories, and curates San Francisco’s oldest continuing performance series, Perverts Put Out! He lives in the gentrified heart of San Francisco with his delightful husband and partner in crime, and loves roller coasters, cruise ships, and hot, twisted sex.
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Simon Sheppard ‘s many books include Man on Man: The Best of Simon Sheppard; Homosex: Sixty Years of Gay Erotica, which won the Lambda Literary Award; Hotter than Hell and Other Stories, winner of the Erotica Authors Association Award; Sodomy!; The Dirty Boys’ Club; and Jockboys. He is also the author of well over 300 published stories, and curates San Francisco’s oldest continuing performance series, Perverts Put Out! He lives in the gentrified heart of San Francisco with his delightful husband and partner in crime, and loves roller coasters, cruise ships, and hot, twisted sex.
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Michael V. Smith
Michael V. Smith is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches creative writing in the interdisciplinary Creative Studies department. His first novel, Cumberland, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca / Books in Canada First Novel Award. His short fiction has won the Western Magazine Gold Award for Fiction and been nominated for the Journey Prize. In 2007, Smith received the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers and Vancouver’s Community Hero of the Year Award. His most recent book is a memoir titled My Body Is Yours, appeared in Spring 2015 with Arsenal Pulp Press.
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Michael V. Smith is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches creative writing in the interdisciplinary Creative Studies department. His first novel, Cumberland, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca / Books in Canada First Novel Award. His short fiction has won the Western Magazine Gold Award for Fiction and been nominated for the Journey Prize. In 2007, Smith received the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers and Vancouver’s Community Hero of the Year Award. His most recent book is a memoir titled My Body Is Yours, appeared in Spring 2015 with Arsenal Pulp Press.
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Eric Sneathen
Eric Sneathen is a poet and PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He focuses on contemporary poetry and poetics, especially those related to the AIDS crisis, pornography, and environmental destruction. His other academic interests include the relationship between neoliberalism and crisis and the formation and possible disintegration of gay and queer identities, solidarities, and communities across literature, visual art, and film. In addition to his occasional zine Macaroni Necklace, which features emerging writers and visual artists in conversation with established writers of the San Francisco Bay Area, his recent creative and critical work has been published or is forthcoming in The Equalizer,Mondo Bummer, and Tripwire.
Eric Sneathen is a poet and PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He focuses on contemporary poetry and poetics, especially those related to the AIDS crisis, pornography, and environmental destruction. His other academic interests include the relationship between neoliberalism and crisis and the formation and possible disintegration of gay and queer identities, solidarities, and communities across literature, visual art, and film. In addition to his occasional zine Macaroni Necklace, which features emerging writers and visual artists in conversation with established writers of the San Francisco Bay Area, his recent creative and critical work has been published or is forthcoming in The Equalizer,Mondo Bummer, and Tripwire.
Navid Tabatabai
Navid is a literary scientist, playful meditator, divine slut, educator, lover, faggot, healer, faerie, wanderer, grinder, and Buddhist. He spends his days contemplating: How can humanity harness the power and energy of unbound sexuality to create good human society? What is the relationship between a passionate fuck and compassionate loving? Why is our society collectively embarrassed by pure passion? He fucks mostly in Vancouver, BC, but occasionally in other cities as well.
Navid is a literary scientist, playful meditator, divine slut, educator, lover, faggot, healer, faerie, wanderer, grinder, and Buddhist. He spends his days contemplating: How can humanity harness the power and energy of unbound sexuality to create good human society? What is the relationship between a passionate fuck and compassionate loving? Why is our society collectively embarrassed by pure passion? He fucks mostly in Vancouver, BC, but occasionally in other cities as well.
Robert Birch (co-editor)
Robert is a PhD student in the Social Dimensions of Health Program and a doctoral researcher with the Centre for Addiction Research of BC (CARBC) at University of Victoria, BC. He is presently investigating gay group sex events, HIV/AIDS and community focused Knowledge Translation. He is also a doctoral researcher for the Momentum Health Study in Vancouver, BC. During his thirty year career as an international arts-based educator and community activist he has delved into the areas of gender equality, socio-cultural diversity and queer-trans* health and wellness. He is also a regular columnist for the award-winning online HIV/AIDS magazine,
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Robert is a PhD student in the Social Dimensions of Health Program and a doctoral researcher with the Centre for Addiction Research of BC (CARBC) at University of Victoria, BC. He is presently investigating gay group sex events, HIV/AIDS and community focused Knowledge Translation. He is also a doctoral researcher for the Momentum Health Study in Vancouver, BC. During his thirty year career as an international arts-based educator and community activist he has delved into the areas of gender equality, socio-cultural diversity and queer-trans* health and wellness. He is also a regular columnist for the award-winning online HIV/AIDS magazine,
Positivelite.com
Marcus Greatheart (co-editor)
Marcus is a community-based social worker, radical therapist and resident physician. In the early 1990s he co-founded Canada's first youth-for-youth AIDS service organization and went on to specialize in LGBT health and education. His graduate research for a Master of Social Work led to the publication of Transforming Practice: Life Stories of Transgender Men that Change How Health Providers Work (2013, Ethica Press). He recently completed his Medical Degree at McMaster University's Michael de Groote School of Medicine, and is currently completing his specialty training in Family Medicine at the University of British Columbia.
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Marcus is a community-based social worker, radical therapist and resident physician. In the early 1990s he co-founded Canada's first youth-for-youth AIDS service organization and went on to specialize in LGBT health and education. His graduate research for a Master of Social Work led to the publication of Transforming Practice: Life Stories of Transgender Men that Change How Health Providers Work (2013, Ethica Press). He recently completed his Medical Degree at McMaster University's Michael de Groote School of Medicine, and is currently completing his specialty training in Family Medicine at the University of British Columbia.
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Pan (Art Director)
Pan is an interdisciplinary artist whose work resides within the act of performance. He uses photographs, videos, installation, and performance to explore notions of persona and authenticity, pointing to the thin line between the self, persona, and the other. He was born in Portland and raised on a farm in Boring, Oregon. He holds an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art, an MS in Teaching from Pace University, and a BA in Theater from University of Oregon. Pan has performed at the Ludlow Festival in the U.K. and in Portland with PICAʼs TBA: 09, TBA:11, and TBA:13 festivals. He has exhibited in San Francisco at SOMarts and in Portland at the Q-Center, PNCA’s 2011 Faculty Biennial, PLACE, Cock Gallery, Disjecta, and the East End. He received a 2012 Project Grant from Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Pan is an interdisciplinary artist whose work resides within the act of performance. He uses photographs, videos, installation, and performance to explore notions of persona and authenticity, pointing to the thin line between the self, persona, and the other. He was born in Portland and raised on a farm in Boring, Oregon. He holds an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art, an MS in Teaching from Pace University, and a BA in Theater from University of Oregon. Pan has performed at the Ludlow Festival in the U.K. and in Portland with PICAʼs TBA: 09, TBA:11, and TBA:13 festivals. He has exhibited in San Francisco at SOMarts and in Portland at the Q-Center, PNCA’s 2011 Faculty Biennial, PLACE, Cock Gallery, Disjecta, and the East End. He received a 2012 Project Grant from Regional Arts and Culture Council.