Velvet Mafia has ours out front and in your face every week. Drop trou and show what you've got beneath your belt. Send in your words, works and cock shots and we'll post the best online. Contact the editor with your "honorarium". Until then, slip off your shorts and enjoy what the family has posted. You won't leave empty handed...

Call For Submissions to Velvet Mafia's 8th Anniversary Issue: Velvet Mafia has been online for 8 years causing trouble and inconvenient erections. We've outlasted Bush and now we're looking to celebrate. Send us provocative fiction, poetry and erotica that incorporates our birthday into the piece. Eight nights on the town, eight cocks in the bed, eighty-sixed from your favorite restaurant/sexclub? Hit us up with your 8 and score in our anniversary issue this November. Writers selected for this issue will earn $8.00 for the first electronic rights to the story. Email Submissions to:

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05.30.09: Velvet Mafia celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Emanuel Xavier's novel Christ Like, reissued by Queer Mojo. Join Mikey on his journey through a New York where Santeros, transsexuals, and voguing queens live, dance and party. Taste Christ Like with a selection, Woes of the Pharisees.

Then sit in on a conversation about growing up in 90's New York, Ballroom days and the resurrection of Christ Like with the author and Charlie Vázquez. Read the interview...

05.25.09: Shoplifting can be an erotic sport, especially when you are apprehended by a fullback-sized cop. Our young delinquent finds out how perpetrators are manhandled in this department store. Get caught red-handed with Christopher Stone's 'A Stolen Quickie'.

04.10.09: Turn off the news on that latest bank failure and insurance giant bailout and click your radio over to the future of viral-terrorism. They have lists of the "clean and healthy" and are coming for you. Step into the new reality in 'Independence or Terrorism? A Dispatch from the Viral Guerrilla' by Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco

03.27.09: Would you strip for the camera? Novice writer Jimmy Hamada bares all for a famous New York photographer, and discovers his own body in the moment. What will be captured on film? Spend "'fifteen minutes naked" and find out.

03.13.09: "Everyone knows there aren't any faggot Nazis" and Spencer hides with the ranks of the male-dominated group, slipping off one dogma for another like changing his t-shirt. His next phase stands in the guise of Tom, who is...different, but can he make the change? Take off your t-shirt and slip on Riley MacLeod's "In Skin".

02.27.09: It's easier to hook up... but sometimes you have to talk. Slip into an awkward conversation with Thomas Kearnes and fill yourself with "Seed".

12.20.08: Our Poetry Editor, Philip Clark, delivers a quartet of sexually-driven poems from New York based poet Daniel Diamond, courtesy of his literary executor, Jerry Rosco. Discover a poet lost too soon with a brief biography and via his work, which places remarkable trust in readers' sensitivity in their exploration of a brutal sensuality. Read Daniel's bio and poetry.

12.08.08: Whet your appetite with a juicy interview of Hal Duncan by our newest associate, Eric Arvin. Dive into the manly world of pirates, dish the dirt over realistic versus speculative fiction, and tie one on with SF writer, Hal Duncan. Read the Interview...

Snack on an excerpt of Duncan's "The Island of the Pirate Gods", republished in Wilde Stories 2008.

And enter to win a copy of the anthology from Lethe Press. There are only five golden tickets so eat all the chocolate you can before January 30th. Winners will be announced after we're done licking the snozberries. Click HERE to enter.

11.14.08: Velvet Mafia delivers a one-two punch with two new bracing shorts.

Join Fiona Glass on an erotic journey through the blazing desert. An Englishman happily trapped "alone in the desert with a handsome native guide" learns to split the difference between reality and fantasy. Read "Heat Haze" and share in the naughty adventure.

Then head out for a night with your mates in the bars and sex-clubs of Paris. Break fully reality and dive face first into the maze of male flesh cruising The Pig. Slip into something uncomfortable with Richard Hennebert's "I Wish", and damn the consequences.

Don't forget your passport.

10.31.08: Velvet Mafia Tricks your Treat with a special Halloween quartet.

Jump in with Tom Cardamone as he explores Scott Heim's mysterious third novel, We Disappear, along with their mutual obsession with true crime, slasher movies and Kansas! Wanna know more? Read their conversation...

“Being single is not a crime,” Alexander rebuffs his exterminator in an offering from Steve Berman's second collection of short fiction. Even if being single draws an infestation of xylophagous German children trying to eat their way through his live-in museum. Battle loneliness and the "Kinder".

When David realizes that his hands have rebelled against his body, he seeks medical attention. But once those hands discover the body of David's boyfriend and bring him to a heightened level of ecstasy, David must take action against his adulterous "Hands", from Sean Meriwether.

Jameson Currier briefly shares one of his ghost stories. Join a circuit boy who picks up more than his next trick in "Wait!" But don't wait to read it, this story is only available until December 31, 2008.

Events, Press & Commentary:

Velvet Mafia breathed a cathartic sigh of relief, and got a little choked up, watching the presidential race tilt overwhelmingly to Barack Obama. With his campaign alone he has already established a new tone for America. He has reunited a country fractured by the Bush administration, which has employed fear tactics to terrorize people into submission and taken away civil rights and privacy. Many around the world have cheered Obama's election, setting the stage to rebuild relationships that had been so easily discarded while waging a fictitious war. He has empowered millions of people, once disillusioned to believe their opinions did not matter, to seek and demand that things be changed for the better. Best yet, he made us part of the solution.

Getting President Obama into the White House is only half the battle. We need to keep up the tidal momentum that has carried us this far. We need to sweep out the corruption and disregard for the legal system, the constitution, or human life, that has marked the last eight years. This may take years to achieve, especially as the world sits on the precipice of a global recession, but it can and will be done. Our persistence and involvement in the process is required to make this a reality, and to help President Obama stay the course he has plotted.