Invert(e) #1: Flagrantly Queer Culture, Politics, Sex, and Dish

Is Invert(e) a periodical, a journal, or an anthology? Yes, it is. Invert(e) #1 includes conversations between filmmakers, artists, authors, musicians, and activists; opinionated nonacademic essays; and assorted cutting-edge artwork, poetry, and memoir; all focused on popular culture, politics, and sex. Dodie Bellamy, S. Bear Bergman, Justin Chin, Richard Glatzer, Matty Lee, Ali Liebegott, Kirk Read, D. Travers Scott, Rob Stephenson, Susan Stinson, Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Zak Szymanski, Wash Westmoreland, and others share their queerest thoughts and experiences—things that rarely make it into mainstream—even gay mainstream media. Some of the topics to be queervisioned into Invert(e)'s blender: class, race, sex, age, gender, identity, body image, violence, drugs, addiction, movies, TV, travel, music, love, beauty, death, art, politics, spirituality and religion, pop culture, pornography, public sex, safe sex, sex with straight men and the down low, fabulousness, no fats and no femmes, butch/femme, carnivore/herbivore, monogamy/polyamory, the S/M sci-fi connection, the Christian right, the Catholic Church, the Supreme Court, the US in the Middle East, the WTO/World Bank, HIV/AIDS, war, peace, taxes, the death penalty, global warming, Bush/Cheney, Republicans/Democrats, assimilation and Gay.com's media empire—does A-gay stand for assimilated gay?, gay marriage, gay TV, tattoos, plastic surgery, teletubbies, roller derby, and taxidermy. And wrapped up in a really cool journal that looks great sandwiched between your copies of Butt, BOMB, and Bitch Magazine.