Vol. 5, Issue 4: Gay Asexuality/Aromanticism

Vol. 5, Issue 4: Gay Asexuality/Aromanticism

AZE Journal
Journal, 2023

AZE, 5(4): Gay Asexuality/Aromanticism

Contributors: Rosie Clarke, Michael Paramo, daniel p. lopez, Berit Hanna, Moira Armstrong, Shastra Deo, Alex Terry, Joey Thurmond, Anna María Mengani, Ginko Pascual, Hussain Ebrahim

Editor: Michael Paramo

Cover Artwork: “untitled,” Paramo

Supporters: This journal issue would not be possible without AZE’s supporters on Patreon. A special thank you to Lindsey, Alex Hansen, Caitlin McKenna, Chris Pasillas, and Heidi Samuelson!

Date of Publication: February 18th, 2023

Featured
Growing Up Acespec: A Speculative Approach to Queer Time
Rosie Clarke
Growing Up Acespec: A Speculative Approach to Queer Time
Rosie Clarke

Acespec development infers growing without a qualifier: not growing sideways or growing into anything in particular, but just growing—directionless and aimless by societal standards perhaps, but growing still, in unexpected ways.

Rosie Clarke
comparing myself to other gays
Michael Paramo
comparing myself to other gays
Michael Paramo

comparing myself to other gays

Michael Paramo
Untitled
daniel p. lopez
Untitled
daniel p. lopez

fortunately, this is rarely an issue with my gay friends since i'm clear about my boundaries. i do feel like an outcast at times, though.

daniel p. lopez
Touch and Go
Berit Hanna
Touch and Go
Berit Hanna

So for now, I’ll walk that tightrope of compromise, walk, and fall and fall again until I have my footing.

Berit Hanna
Asexual/Aromantic Concerns, Gay Spaces: Anti-Amatonormativity and the United Kingdom Gay Liberation Front
Moira Armstrong
Asexual/Aromantic Concerns, Gay Spaces: Anti-Amatonormativity and the United Kingdom Gay Liberation Front
Moira Armstrong

This shows that amatonormativity is not only a concern of theorists, or of modern-day asexual and aromantic activists; instead, it has been a thread through gay liberation from the roots of the movement.

Moira Armstrong
LESBIANS IN THE KITCHEN
Shastra Deo
LESBIANS IN THE KITCHEN
Shastra Deo

but the issue is really that none / of those poems have / you

Shastra Deo
lavender, spearmint, and herb garden
Alex Terry
lavender, spearmint, and herb garden
Alex Terry

and although everyone else there says it’s fine, / i still insist that i haven’t quite gotten the color right.

Alex Terry
There’s something about David and Jonathan
Joey Thurmond
There’s something about David and Jonathan
Joey Thurmond

But what if both perspectives meet somewhere in the middle? What if they weren’t straight, and what if they weren’t gay? What if they were homoromantic, even asexual?

Joey Thurmond
To You, From 2019
Anna María Mengani
To You, From 2019
Anna María Mengani

I can finally say, I am much healthier and happier without her. From 2022 until some day, I have someone who understands the Asexual experience, and loves me.

Anna María Mengani
Sleepy Love Poem
Ginko Pascual
Sleepy Love Poem
Ginko Pascual

undressing, your back / an unmade bed

Ginko Pascual
Romanticizing Asexual Identities: Deconstructing Aromance while indulging-in versus refuting sex encounters through Art and Yoga
Hussain Ebrahim
Romanticizing Asexual Identities: Deconstructing Aromance while indulging-in versus refuting sex encounters through Art and Yoga
Hussain Ebrahim

Effeminate gays and masculine lesbians struggle through societal expectations onto them. They are unable to even satisfy internal desires of being nurturing versus providing, being homemakers versus breadwinners, in a constant conflict with their inner being.

Hussain Ebrahim
to discover an orientation / Satisfaction

to discover an orientation / Satisfaction
Growing Up Acespec: A Speculative Approach to Queer Time

Growing Up Acespec: A Speculative Approach to Queer Time

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