by Joseph Itiel
Bruce Tobias is an outstanding research librarian. There are many other things that can be said about him but they seem not to matter much. Except for being a genius at research he is, as someone once described him, “just a dude.” It would probably be a cliché to say that he looks [...]

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by Janet Trakin
The hermetically sealed airplane cabin felt like a hot air balloon which suspended me between my life in Los Angeles and my umbilical cord to Delray Beach, Florida. There, my mother lay in storage in the same funeral home we used for my father. I had fled South Florida like an Iraqi refugee [...]

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by Joseph Itiel
…Saul’s son Jonathan was deeply attracted to David and came to love him as much as he loved himself (I Samuel, 18: 1).
I grieve for you, my brother Jonathan; how dear you were to me! How wonderful was your love for me, better even than the love of women (II Samuel l: 26).
Crown [...]

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by Corey Crossfield
The streets are empty as is my life. How does someone get to this point? So entrenched in their own lies that they actually start to believe themselves, and your life becomes one big deception. I read somewhere once that self-deception is the worst kind of lie. You lie so much to others [...]

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By Janet Trakin
Ronald had been my lover for eight years–a veritable eight-year one-night stand– totaling over 100 orgasmic evenings which had capped frustrating days as a legal secretary with emotional and sexual fulfillment. He came from St. Lucia bearing thin, dreadlocks to his shoulder and a dumbfounded look upon his face. He declared himself a [...]

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by Janet Trakin
I had tried to seduce her before, stripping naked-notwithstanding my socks-because I was too drunk to drive home. It didn’t work. It was if I were a translucent ghost.
She had occupied the side of the bed facing the bathroom and closet alcove. She stared at it, clutching the pillow. She had not even [...]

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LGBT literature is a term for literature produced by people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. This genre includes literary works where the characters, plot lines or themes concern the gay and lesbian community. According to the Writer’s Digest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender literature has officially positioned itself as a new and thriving [...]

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