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No One issue 2

Steve Watson — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:20:54 +0000

Each issue of No One sets out for a different city and reports on the queer nightlife it finds there. For this second issue the magazine travelled to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to create a richly detailed picture of the overlapping scenes that have grown up within and between Vietnam’s most populous cities.

In this issue:

How Lô Tô brought trans artistry to Vietnam’s mainstream
Inside Vietnam’s burgeoning ballroom scene
The queer artist who dances with a motorcycle on her head
Club nights, cave raves, ballroom functions, villa gatherings, beach parties, and more
And lots of photography from the cities’ clubs, streets and queer spaces

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Nobody issue 3

Steve Watson — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:36:02 +0000

A magazine dedicated to telling, ‘stories about everything else’, Nobody provides a home for the sort of journalism that might not be picked up by more mainstream outlets. Each issue is built around a different theme, which provides a loose, provocative direction for contributors, and this issue’s theme of ‘Burning’ gleefully confounds readers’ expectations.

In this issue:

Reconsidering shipworms as queer, kinky, anticolonial activists
One writer’s disillusionment with the “quasi-religion” of human spaceflight
The science nerds who volunteered to live on a Pacific island of acid-spitting ants
The last party in South Philly
And editor Tessa Love discovers herself via her Notes app

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Surprise Pack issue 4

Steve Watson — Tue, 28 May 2024 08:59:35 +0000

Have you ever wanted to try Stack without committing straight away? This limited-edition Surprise Pack is the perfect way to do exactly that, providing a one-off delivery of five previous subscriber magazines for just £20. As always, there are only 100 of these Surprise Packs available and we’re not re-stocking, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.

The magazines in this pack are worth a total of £73 and just like with our monthly magazine club, you won’t know what they are until they arrive at your door. They cover a range of subjects, from art and design, to literature, fashion and the environment, and they have all been enjoyed by our subscribers at some point in the last year. (It’s worth emphasising that the illustration above gives no clue about what you’ll receive. I don’t think there’s a single article about insects in any of the magazines.)

Numbers are always strictly limited for these special offers, so grab yours while you can. And at the risk of stating the obvious, please don’t buy this Surprise Pack if you have been a Stack subscriber in the last year, because you will already own these magazines!

Our artwork for this fourth edition of the Surprise Pack was created by Lebanese illustrator and comics artist Raphaelle Macaron. She’s currently based in Paris, and we love her bold, distinctive graphics – see more at raphaellemacaron.com.

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The BitterSweet Review issue 2

Steve Watson — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:44:27 +0000

Describing itself as, “A literary magazine for queers and their friends”, The BitterSweet Review is a publishing platform dedicated to the advancement of queer literature and visual culture. This second issue is themed, ‘I started a joke’, exploring the places where queer culture and humour rub up against each other.

In this issue:

Michelle Tea on polyamory and a cold shower
Considering the underappreciated importance of humour in Greer Lankton’s photography
Kafka’s A Hunger Artist gets a bizarre twist in A Humour Artist
Chris Kraus remembers her days as a dancer in a ‘hustle bar’
And artist-cum-fashion designer Bárbara Sánchez-Kane spills the beans on the art of grooming pubic hair

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Gayletter issue 15

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 09:18:02 +0000

Gayletter started out as an email newsletter in 2008, providing a highly selective guide to New York gay culture. Today it’s a biannual arts magazine, reporting on the coolest, strangest and sexiest corners of queer culture.

Readers will receive one cover option selected at random.

In this issue:

Charli XCX photographed by Matt Grubb
A brief history of the jockstrap
And Lady Bunny on the apps, politics and drag

Like what you see? Issue 14 and Issue 12 of Gayletter are also available in the Stack shop.

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Butt issue 30

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 11:23:01 +0000

Butt is back in print. “The veritable home of faggotry returns with a brand new 30th issue spilling over the rim with a super diverse cast of contemporary people”.

In this issue:

Hyperpop DJ Babynymph loves the artificial and hates discreet men
Hosting London’s Black Perverts Network
Holli Smith, The reigning queen of queer hair
Homokomando: Buff resistance in Poland

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Worms issue 4

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:32:09 +0000

Worms is a biannual literary magazine that celebrates female and non-binary writer culture, and issue four is themed around walking. Inspired by the act of walking during lockdown, the issue considers psychogeography and the situationists from a non-male perspective, and also mixes literature with stories on exercise, exploring and taking up space on the streets.

In this issue:

How can the act of walking the streets spark political conversation?
Poet and novelist Eileen Myles on how walking expresses both invulnerability and vulnerability
Graphic novelist Alison Bechdel on The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Sex worker and writer Tilly Lawless on breaking taboos
Plus conversations with Lauren Elkin, Mckenzie Wark, Therese Estacion and Carmen Winant.
Also includes I’m Busy Writing Lists, a zine by Victoria Margrethe Bencsik.

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Little Joe issue 6

Heval Okcuoglu — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 15:12:44 +0000

Little Joe is a unique forum for the discussion of cinema, sexuality and gender, and queer history.

In this issue:

Michelle Handelman’s BloodSisters, the groundbreaking 1995 documentary about lesbian BDSM
LA-based artist Jonesy talks to Roger Earl about his definitive 1975 gay S/M porn Born to Raise Hell
Liz Rosenfeld interviews artist and filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang about sexual outlaws and surveillance

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Gayletter issue 14

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:48:27 +0000

Gayletter started out as a newsletter in 2009, providing a highly selective guide to New York gay culture. A printed arts magazine since 2014, Gayletter publishes biannually.

Readers will receive one cover option selected at random.

In this issue:

Honey Dijon
A brief history of the Jockstrap
JW Anderson x Tom of Finland Foundation

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Are We Europe issue 11

Heval Okcuoglu — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:13:49 +0000

Are We Europe is an independent magazine taking on European identity at this crucial moment in the continent’s history. This issue is a journey through the European LGBTQ+ landscape in all its colours.

In this issue:

Falling in love with a videogame character
Queer and Roma in Romania
Public Toilets, private affairs
Napels’ ancient third-gender community

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