

331 Miles Away... with Furkan Y
Furkan Y got in touch with us in response to a call put out on our behalf by the folks at GZone Magazine, Turkey's one and only LGBT...


Istanbul, the Gay Beacon... with Sasha B & Tema P
When I was doing my PhD, I spent a lot of time in Tbilisi, Georgia. At the time I remember several gay guys there talking about how much...


What Does Erotic Mean?... with Şahin C
I recently got a letter from a Swedish reader about his experience reading Elska for the first time. He'd come across Elska via our...


A Canadian Issue?...with Miguel E by Jonathan Lemieux
A huge country thirty-six times the size of the UK but containing half the population; with great diversity not only from its...


We Are Not Alone... with Ekin K & Emrullah T
I'm always embarrassed by how long it took me to feel OK about my sexuality. When I was a kid, I just wanted to be normal, and whether...


My Istanbul Crush... with Mert E
Like Taras D from Issue (01) Lviv, Luca T from Issue (02) Berlin, Lionel C from Issue (03) Reykjavík, Matheus G from Issue (04) Lisbon,...


Cats, Cigarettes, and Hairy Men... with Efe B
"Cats, Cigarettes, and Hairy Men" - this is the slogan I coined for Istanbul based on my biggest impressions after a week in the city....
!["So I joined the Army" [所以我加入了軍隊]... with Justin L](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4b4fc2_7ac6fd98ae4c4bcfab506102c4b641d6.jpg/v1/fill/w_332,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/4b4fc2_7ac6fd98ae4c4bcfab506102c4b641d6.webp)
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"So I joined the Army" [所以我加入了軍隊]... with Justin L
[Original in Mandarin; English version follows] 帶者些許醉意,我走出台北最大的夜店,回頭看著還在狂歡的其他人們,心裡想的卻是還在家裡的男朋友,也許真的是到了不愛玩的年紀了~ ...


Rethinking My Motivation... with Lucas M by Jean-Baptiste Huong
The story that Jean-Baptiste Huong wrote to accompany his Lucas M series in the Elska Taipei issue really got me thinking. In it he...


Picked Second-to-Last for the Team... with Rhenz T
One of the things I didn't like about growing up in Chicago was the cultural obsession with sports. Even when I moved to London as a...