QT \\ Queer Toronto Literary Magazine

This is a space for the incredible, strange, provocative, and confrontational pieces that don’t fit a particular issue theme.

Traditional (Marriage//Tattoo)

Felix Menashy

She/Her, Saviour \ The Lover Girl’s Lament

S.N. Michelle

Becoming \ Villain-Coded \ Pigeons

Thistle Dunsmuir

Lipstick \ Revenant \ Sun Kissed

Harlequin Crow

peach \ off the water \ lookalike

Alex Colaneri

Existentia

Faye Susan

A Sad Millennial, Chronically Online \ I just want a hug \ You, a bad tattoo

Melody Sun

We fucked so hard we knocked his nightstand over

Taylor Kelley

Silly little human

mansi r

Not Gay Enough

Kevin Li

Reflection

A.L Zaritzky

Of the Same Year (1987)

Martin Soudek

Dusk & Yearning

Jamie Quinn Mader

Crossover

Saheed Sunday

ode to an older woman

A. Gabrielle

forevermore

Marcus Proctor

Adieu

Abdulbasit Oluwanishola

Somewhere in Nigeria

Fadairo Tesleem

Hamartia

Rachel Linton

Portrait of Elian

Garima Soni

Review of Micheline Maylor’s "The Bad Wife"

David Bateman

Do you not believe in angels?

Rayyan Dabbous

You Scare Them

Jessica Dubie

Kaleidoscope Eyes \\ A candid romantic encounter \\ Be More Intimate

Jamie Quinn Mader

Alternate World \\ Keen

JC Cormack

A Tale of Queer Sorrow Becoming Unabashed Queer Joy

Akhil Mulgaonker

Percentage of Humans in The Water

Christian Ramirez Ramos

Transcribing Moonlight \\ Finger to Finger

David Bateman

All In My Head

Becca Fischer

“that’s why this pride month, i’m partnering with mephistopheles”

Loren TKTK-30

QUILT SQUARE \\ FLASH FLOOD \\ ORPHAN

Alejandro Pérez

Transfer of Power

Kyle E Miller

Dear Boy

Adam Arca

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY DESERVED MORE THAN

Frederico Voroniuk Manica

Ancient Love \\ Siren \\ Morning Sex in the Aftermath of a Catholic Upbringing

A Gabrielle

Fires \\ Eye

James Kangas

Adoration \\ California

Alex Rettie

Threads Review

David Bateman

Tattered sunsets in my dreams \\ Dreams flowed through my fingers \\ Sleepless days

Malcolm Reher

Edward

Hazim Ismail

The Duty of Indian Daughters

Monisha Pathak

Glowing Pink Until the Sunrises

Kris Lodu

Gender Fuck \\ Passing

Dominic Gatto

Eldritch Mother \\ What is a native tongue?

MA Florin

Transitory

Subhaga Crystal Bacon

We Have Always Existed: Introduction
Ancient Transgender LGBT History

Sophie Edwards

1957

DC Diamondopolous

Unsolved Problem

Ranjith Sivaraman

How I yelled at God \\ Lyrics of thoughts

Fadairo Tesleem

Elena

Susana Meza

Flirting, Space, and Existence

Emily Coussons

Lips \\ How Easily I Fall \\ The First Date

Elizabeth Almeida

Flirting Mayhem

Kim theBwordPoet

Flirt (A Rather Cis How-To)

Renee Vroom

The (Un)Packing List

Yolande House

Watching You From the Doorway Outside

Sylvia Frey

Regular Joe

Lindsay Clarke

M4M: to the twink who absolved me of my sins

Josh Dixon

Overthinking

L. Tran

Animals and Machines

Gillian Bowles

One Summer: A Haiku Quintet
(For D.)

Greg Fewer

Finding Queer Happy Endings in Schitt's Creek

Emily Garside

Zipper: The Dancer - Summer Fling
Chapter 1

Adam Quang

Wake Up \\ River

Bella Melardi

Someday, Not Today

Lindsay Clarke

It’s "Trans Women," not "Transwomen."
Here’s Why That Matters.

S.B. Edwards

Watching lines of men in hats kissing ladies in skirts

Rebecca Casalino

Hollow Bones \\ I Hope This Email Finds You Well \\ Sense Memory \\ Stealing More Time \\ Fading

Cassandra Cervi

The Ethical Other Woman

Jesse Boland