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The History of Music
With unrehearsed bravado you rise and play a difficult concerto that makes your cheap new violin resound like a Stradivarius. You aren’t even on the program, but the audience adores you, some women fainting with joy, men tear...
Pop Culture And Sexuality
By Gareth Trew Gaga. Madonna. Bowie. In late 2007, at Carnegie Hall, New York, J.K. Rowling announced to over 1500 youngsters – and subsequently the world – that Albus Dumbledore was gay. Her audience’s reaction was a...
Asking that Queer Question
“There is no politically correct way to be gay in Pakistan. Your very existence is politically incorrect,” says a young person in Pakistan. Maria Amir investigates life for an oppressed minority.
The Forgotten Language
By Salman Latif Urdu on its death bed? Language is not only a vehicle to transmit human thoughts and feelings, it also chronologizes human evolution. Despite having such profound importance, human languages have both eroded and...
Spotlight: Mohammad Ahsan Masood
Muhammad Ahsan Masood’s journey as an artist, exploring the oft-ignored sexuality of the male psyche in the context of Pakistan’s uneasy social and religious situation, has been fraught with turmoil. An admirer of t...
Schroeder and Lucy, Nocturne #9
By Dolan Morgan The Peanut Gallery I was going to visit Lucy at her school, had saved up some money and gotten a plane ticket. We weren’t dating anymore, but she’d recently been dating Charlie. And he’d really changed...
Spotlight: Fayez Ahmed Agariah
Fayez Ahmed Agariah, fashion designer extraordinaire graduated from London College of Fashion. His creations have a distinctly unique identity and serve as a visual testament to the mind behind them. Hot on the heels of his vib...
The Limit
By J. Scott Hardin Part One The old man had left with the dawn, gone home quietly – mercifully, without saying a word. Doubtless he thought his son was asleep. The young man’s back had been turned to him, but his eyes w...
Masturbation
Pleasure plays no part in this expo of inadequacy; every orgasm is a prayer, faithless but fiercely profound: please, send me someone. –Gareth Trew Gareth Trew is a young, Australian poet who lives in a state of constant ...
