Sage Kalmus 
Hashtag Queer [EPUB ebook] 
LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Volume 1

Editor’s Note -    vi

Fiction | Short Stories & Flash Fiction

1957 |DC Diamondopolous – 1
A Memory of His Rising | Adam Mc Omber – 11
First/Then | Sam Heyman – 25
Studies Show Cigarettes Kill | Paige Zubel – 53
How Jac Twist’d Turned You | Emma Munro – 107
All and Nothing At All | Richard Natale – 114
And Then This | Calvin Gimpelevich – 133
A True Host Leaves Nothing to Chance | Thomas Kearnes – 142
The Time You Give and the Time You Take | Joe Baumann – 188
The Livorno Story | Bill Gaythwaite – 207

Nonfiction | Essays & Memoirs

To An Ex-Lover, after A Natural History of the Senses | Miah Jeffra – 44
Chasing Home | Laura Gullveig – 78
A Lenten Examen of Past and Future Incarnations of Myself  |Carolyn Agee – 111
The Flip Side of Coming Out | Eva M. Schlesinger – 136
The Year of Eating Banana Splits | Carla Sameth – 170
A Worn Sole | Darlene O’Dell – 226

Poetry | Poems

Her Name Was Nancy | Lylanne Musselman – 6
Straight A’s | Lylanne Musselman – 7
I Wanted to Be a Beatle | Lylanne Musselman – 8
400, 000 | Kenneth Pobo – 9
Grace | the Piano | Kenneth Pobo – 10
Not Human | Kimberly Ann Priest – 24
L’chi/L’cha: on being queer and jewish | Sacha Mankins – 43
If my father were retired to rural France, | T. Stores – 48
If my father were a humanist capitalist, | T. Stores – 51
Fagtastic Damage | Zac Cahill – 65
A Small Matter of Fellatio Emphatics | Colin James – 66
Pedantry & The Three Legged | Colin James – 67
Freaky| Kenneth Pobo – 68
This City | Serene Vannoy – 93
Cruising Christopher Street | Gabriella M. Belfiglio – 94
The Dyke With No Name Doesn’t Really Think About Sex | Judith Barrington – 104
emotion invoice | Mud Howard – 105
Letters from Outside the Binary | L.C. – 110
Brows | Emenual Wolff – 113
Twinning | Serene Vannoy – 126
Poetics of Nature | Gabriella M. Belfiglio – 129
Clavicula | Kristin Laurel – 131
I Like Dick | Maddie Godfrey – 139
The World in Reverse| Jean Mikhail – 167
silver makes everything disappear | Scott-Patrick Mitchell – 184
celestial | oakley flanagan – 205
inadvertent angels | oakley flanagan – 206
Presence and Absence| Laury A. Egan – 221
The Spirit’s in It | Kristin Laurel – 229

Scripts | Plays,  Screenplays & Monologues

His Name Was Doug | Richard Ballon – 4
Jared – from the play “Unstuck”, Monologue 1 | Evan Tsitsias – 63
The Girl Who Dressed as a Bear | Alex Clarke – 69
Jared – from the play “Unstuck”, Monologue 2 | Evan Tsitsias – 95
Two Slaves in a Cage | Thomas Klocke – 96
A Life Enriching Community | Philip Middleton William – 157

Contributors – 232
About the Editor – 242
About the Publisher – 242

Sage Kalmus is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Qommunity LLC. He teaches writing in Lesley University’s Creative Writing MFA program. His fiction has appeared in Whisperings Magazine, Carnival Online Literary Journal, and Rose Red Review. His essays and articles have appeared in The Writer, The Hampshire Gazette, and Livestrong.com. He wrote and directed three plays in San Francisco. He worked as an editorial intern for Dzanc Books and is a three-time contest reader for Salamander Magazine’s summer fiction contents. Since 2004 he’s been a part-time freelance writer, editor, and ghostwriter. He holds a BS in Film & Broadcasting from Boston University and a MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. He lives in western Massachusetts with his loving husband and their four-legged family.