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Shane Allison
Shane Allison's Pushcart nominated poems have appeared in over seventy magazines, journals and anthologies. His work has appeared in Chiron Review, RFD, Coal City Review, The Absinthe Literary Review, Aura Literary Arts, Unlikely Stories and Can We Have Our Ball Back?. He has work forthcoming in Starbooks Press' Saints and Sinners and the sequel to Rudy Kikel's anthology, Gents, Badboys and Barbarians. He is an MFA candidate at The New School of Social Research. This is his first published story.
Read The Torsos of Angels


Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite
Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite is the author of the novels Wigger and Ratz are Nice (PSP). He has written many short stories some appearing in Bluesprints: An Anthology of Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature, Velvet Mafia and Of the Flesh: Dangerous Fiction. His new novel is More at 7:30 (Suspect Thoughts Press) 2003. Braithwaite lives in a fugative bunker in the Fernwood district of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Read The Versionization of Zora: 6. John and Marsa


Jameson Currier

Jameson Currier is the author of the novel, Where the Rainbow Ends, and a collection of short stories, Dancing on the Moon. His short fiction can also be found in the anthologies Men on Men, Best American Gay Fiction, Best Gay Erotica, Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, Making Literature Matter, Rebel Yell, and Circa 2000, among others. His story “Snow,” published in the first issue of Velvet Mafia, was also selected for Best Gay Erotica 2003.
Read What You Find


Todd Gregory
Todd Gregory is a New Orleans based writer who enjoys exploring all aspects of gay life and sexuality. This is his second published story; the first will appear in the STARbooks anthology Latin Boys. He is currently writing his first novel, an erotic suspense thriller titled SUNBURN.
Read The Sea Where It's Shallow


Charles Harvey
Charles Harvey, a graduate of The University of Houston, did not start writing until after he left college and landed a job as Computer Operator with a 3-day week that allowed him time to write. Occasionally his creativity catches fire, sometimes it's like a Lady in Waiting - waiting for the Queen to set something in motion. His catalyst was Rosellen Brown, a very inspiring teacher. His play, The Ladies and the Iron Ball was produced at Kuumba House in Houston, "Cheeseburger" won first place in the PEN/Southwest Prizes and was published in Ontario Review. He has had two short stories published in STORY Magazine. When Dogs Bark is his latest creative endeavor. It is a collection of some of my best poetry and stories. "I'm happy to be a writer. What else could I be?"
Read My Manhood Is Important To Me


Trebor Healey
Trebor Healey's fiction can be found online at Blithe House Quarterly, Lodestar Quarterly and Ashé. Anthologies include Best Gay Erotica 2003; Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists; Wilma Loves Bette and Other Hilarious Gay and Lesbian Parodies; Mama's Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers; and Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Manic D Press), of which he was co-editor. Trebor has also written a hit single, "Denny," for Pansy Division. His first novel, Through It Came Bright Colors, will be published by Haworth Press in Spring, 2003.
Visit him online at: www.treborhealey.com
Read Gravity


Ryan Kamstra

Ryan Kamstra (or sCRATCH) is a Toronto-based bi songwriter and writer who has one album to date (aLL faLL dOWN 1 & 2, September 2001, independent) and a full collection of poetry (lATE cAPITALIST sUBLIME, June 2002, Insomniac Press). He writes weird porn to amuse himself when his novel isn't working. Lately he's been writing a lot of porn.
Info: http://allfalldown.freewebsites.com.
Read uNDERTOW


David Pratt
David Pratt published stories in recent issues of Blithe House Quarterly and Lodestar Quarterly, and in The James White Review, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly (also upcoming), A&U, Genre, The Chiron Review, and other periodicals. He has published pieces in the anthologies Men Seeking Men (Michael Lassell, ed.) and His3 (Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake, eds.) He has performed in New York City at The Cornelia Street Cafe and Dixon Place, on WBAI-FM, and at Puppetheque. This winter he will sit on a panel with other Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly writers at the 2003 Associated Writing Programs conference in Baltimore.
Read Another Country


J.D. Roman
Born and raised in Hawaii, J.D. Roman digs Rufus Wainwright and men in malos. Check out more of J.D.'s stories at Mind Caviar.
Read Vamp


Lawrence Schimel
Lawrence Schime is a full-time author and anthologiest, who's published over 50 books, including His Tounge, The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica (with Carol Queen), The Drag Queen of Elfland, and Kosher Meat, among others. His PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality (with Carol Queen) won a Lambda Literary Award in 1998 and other of his titles have been finalists for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, Small Press Book Award, and Spectrum Award. His work has been widely anthologized in The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Best of Best Gay Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories, Gay Love Poetry, and The Random House Treasury of Light Verse, among many others. His writings have been published abroad in more than eleven languages. His website is http://www.circlet.com/schimel.html He currently lives in Madrid, Spain and New York City.
Read Falling


Jack Slomovits
Jack Slomovits is a commercial and portrait photographer as well as a graphic and web designer. Maturing sexually during the 80's, in an age of AIDS, Jack's lust for adventure was tempered by his fear and awareness of the disease. He refocused his sexual energy into his art and his camera became his wand of control. Jack's work has been collected by galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and have been published in two photographic anthologies. Visit his website at jackny.com
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