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 "honorium". Until then, slip off your shorts and enjoy what the family has posted. You won't leave empty handed...

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We challenge you to write a ten word review of your favorite queer tome. Classic, commercial, fiction or non, love it or loathe it... we are looking for all players and gamers. Submit via our contact form. The best will be published online.

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' senstivity 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 15th. 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.

06.08.08: Alistair McCartney gives us a sample of his encyclopedia of a novel, The End of the World Book. Just what is a Double Czech? It's related to gay porn, you'll want to find out by reading his excerpt.

Then Dan Callahan gets to Q&A Alistair McCartney on the origins of The End of the World Book, how the novel came to life from a creative writing project, and posts the question, "Who would you rather have sex with, Proust or Kafka?" Dare tell. Read the Interview...

05.15.08: Check out the work of our favorite Sydney-based Canuck, Andy Quan, from his second collection of poetry, Bowling Pin Fire.

04.04.08: Dive head first into the lonely night with Slavko, hitting the clubs to quiet his urges for the company of male flesh. Read "Blossoms in Autumn" by Gojmir Polajnar.

Gregg Shapiro sits down with Gerard Wozek to discuss his travel erotica collection, Postcards from Heartthrob Town. Get the inspirations behind the stories, how music has shaped his fiction, and read about upcoming projects. Read the Interview...

03.30.08: In the 45 years since his first book, Stand Up, Friend, with Me, won the Lamont Poetry Prize, Edward Field has produced a uniformly readable body of poetry. Of the new pieces in After the Fall, fully half qualify as political poems, culminating in the lengthy title poem’s devastating examination of the destruction of the World Trade Center.
Read Three Poems from the collection, including "Sex Among The Savages"...

Then read a review of the collection by Philip Clark, who gives us insight to the politics, bohemian character, and sexuality of Field's work.

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.