Contents

Introduction by Benjamin Law

Freedom of Heart by Holly Throsby

Shame and Forgiveness by David Marr

How to be Both by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Rob, and Queer Family by Nayuka Gorrie

Caritas by Jack Kirne

St Louis by Oliver Reeson

Boobs, Rags and Judy Blume by Phoebe Hart

From Dreams to Living by Nadine Smit

The Most Natural of Things by Justine Hyde

Binary School by Roz Bellamy

Why I’ve Stopped Coming Out to My Mum by Vivian Quynh Pham

Training to Be Me by Cindy Zhou

The Watering Hole by Samuel Leighton-Dore

Car Windows by Tim Sinclair

Bent Man Running by Steve Dow

The Bent Bits Are the Best Bits by Jax Jacki Brown

Reunion by Kelly Parry

You Can Take the Queer Out of the Country by M’ck McKeague

The Risk by Thom Mitchell

When Worlds Collide, Words Fail by Thinesh Thillainadarajah

Radelaide/Sadelaide by Gemma Killen

LGBTI-Q&A: William Yang

LGBTI-Q&A: Georgie Stone

LGBTI-Q&A: Tony Ayres

LGBTI-Q&A: Sally Rugg

LGBTI-Q&A: Kate McCartney

LGBTI-Q&A: Christos Tsiolkas

Coming In by Joo-Inn Chew

Androphobia by Heather Joan Day

Living in a Fridge by Michael Farrell

Wanting by Fiona Wright

Coming Out, Coming Home by Adolfo Aranjuez

The Wall of Shame by Natalie Macken

Meinmasha by Atul Joshi

Kissing Brad Davis by Scott McKinnon

Something Special by Rebecca Shaw

Floored by Nic Holas

Not Special by Tim McGuire

Jack and Jill and Me by Stephanie Convery

To My Man of Seventeen Years by Henry von Doussa

Angry Cleaning by Nathan Mills

The Exchange by Alice Boyle

Faggot by Beau Kondos

So You Wanted Honesty . . . by Sue-Ann Post

Sometimes I Call You Even Though I Know You Can’t Answer. It’s a Symbol, I Think . . . by Anthony Nocera

How Not to Quench Your Thirst by Jean Velasco

Silence and Words by Aron Koh Paul

homosexual by Mike Mullins

A Robust Game of Manball by Patrick Lenton

The Equality of Love by Yamiko Marama

A City Set Upon a Hill by Dang Nguyen

Trust Me (Tips for My Teenage Self) by Thomas Wilson-White

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