Do you ever see the New York you live in reflected back to you on paper or the screen? The voguers on the pier; the sweat shining on performers as they sing for you, dance for you, strip for you; the whispering in the bar, lips to ear, curled and open. What’s that you say? You hardly ever see that? What about the New York you lust after? Women standing in doorframes, the heat steaming them open li
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In a time when gay activism has been hijacked by white hetero-normative combat and relationships, In the Flesh asks “How do you fight? How do you love? How do you live?” In the Flesh is a bridge. It’s about a q***r* reality melding with a q***r imaginary. What makes you analytical, erotic, maternal, spiritual, angry, activist, hustling, pulsing flesh. Send us your fiction, essays, poems, theory, photos, artworks, erotica, and book, music or event reviews. A Word on “Queer”
We are not interested in q***r as another identity to be consumed. We believe q***rness is a desire for knowledge wedded to the erotic. It is the assertion that there is no knowledge without risk; there is no intelligence without feeling; no discovery without love.
