Imageoutwrite Volume 6

ImageOut, New YorkÕs longest running LGBTQ film festival, is proud to celebrate our 2017 issue of ImageOutWrite! ImageOutWrite, Volume Six, captures the modern LGBTQ experience in prose and poetry. Volume Six presents a broad array of LGBTQ and allied voices to enrich and entertain youÑwhile preserving the narrative of those lives. Crack the cover and lose yourself in a world where words blur the lines between feminine and masculine, where cappuccino enables the erotic, where love defies the wicked, and where beauty reveals itself in the mundane hours.

ImageOut, New York's longest-running LGBTQ film festival, is proud to celebrate our 2018 issue of ImageOutWrite! The prose and poetry comprising ImageOutWrite, Volume Seven, will transport you through LGBTQ perspectives that span the past, present, and future, as well as the realm of pure fantasy. It also provides vivid glimpses of the trans experience through the eyes of parents, spouses, those who transition, and those who dream of doing so. As varied and vibrant as the LGBTQ community itself, this volume reverberates with shared humanity. Whether you're out and proud, exploring your identity, or newly allied, this collection will leave you feeling unequivocally that you're not alone.

ImageOut, New York's longest running LGBTQ film festival, is proud to celebrate our 2016 issue of ImageOutWrite! ImageOutWrite captures the modern LGBTQ experience in prose and poetry. Volume Five presents a broad array of LGBTQ and allied voices to enrich and entertain you-while preserving the narrative of those lives. From the crab apple trials of youth-through the back-stage tribulations in Camelot-to the conditional triumphs of unconditional love-and much more-this collection will remain with you long after the last page is read.

ImageOut, New York's longest running LGBTQ film festival, is proud to celebrate our 2015 issue of ImageOutWrite! ImageOutWrite, volume four, celebrates the writing of LGBTQ and allied writers. This edition showcases high quality poetry, fiction, and non-fiction that engages the reader with the diverse voices of local New York poets and writers.

ImageOut, New York's longest running LGBTQ film and arts festival, presents ImageOutWrite's third volume of contemporary poetry and prose. In Personal Pronouns writers examine the theme of identity and gender.

For the past 20 years ImageOut has been recognized and respected as a major arts and cultural organization celebrating LGBT artists and themed work. This special collection of poetry and short fiction by 23 contemporary writers celebrates ImageOut's 20th Anniversary.

I had a moment's indecision-a stab of worry."Trust me," she said.And so, I did.The year is 1862. Driven by a leading from the Spirit, Chloë Parker Stanton leaves the woman she loves to enlist in the Union Army and fight for abolition in war as she has in the streets of Philadelphia. At home, her lover, Leigh Hunter, eagerly awaits Chloë's letters, anxious to hear of her survival without discovery, for women are not allowed to wear the Union blue.Three days after Gettysburg comes the news: the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry has survived, but Chloë Stanton is missing, presumed dead.The year is 2020. Sergeant First Class Leigh Hunter came of age during her seventeen-year stint in uniform. Since childhood, she'd been drawn to the Army in search of something, all the while fighting her inner truth as a trans woman. After her final combat tour, Leigh left the military a decorated combat veteran and finally transitioned. She was quickly recruited by the Joint Temporal Integrity Commission: a new, secretive government agency tasked with intercepting temporal refugees and integrating them into present-day society.Two years after joining the JTIC, Leigh is entrusted with a special assignment: personal custody of a Pennsylvania cavalry soldier from three days after Gettysburg.Her name: Chloë Parker Stanton.Grey Dawn is a tale of war, abolition, union, and women who forge ties that carry them from one life into the next. When the grey dawn breaks on a new era and a new cause, who can you trust to fight beside you?