The Lavender Gaze

@thelavendergaze
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GAZE: “A steady intent look.”
The possibility to look, to be looked it. A space for connection, vulnerability, and presence.

LAVENDER: “A light pale shade of purple or violet.”
A colour used to refer to the LGBTQIA+ community, re-appropriated as a symbol of empowerment and resistance in the face of oppression.

This is a space for expression, in words and images. Not everything is about sexuality.
But as a gay man, I have a lavender outlook on life.

Gaze with me.

THE BODY SPEAKS
https://thelavendergaze.com/2017/03/the-body-speaks/

During the last three months I underwent three surgeries in my pubic area: fixing an inguinal hernia …

#Body #Essay #QueerWriters #Sex #Writing #WritingCommunity

FEARING WHAT I WANT; WANTING WHAT I FEAR
https://thelavendergaze.com/2017/03/fearing-what-i-want-wanting-what-i-fear/

For years I’ve lived my life guided by the reins of safety. Security served as the north star …

#Essay #Fear #Life #Writing #WritingCommunity

I AM GAY
https://thelavendergaze.com/2017/04/i-am-gay/

I recently had a discussion with someone who told me that he doesn’t like using the word ‘gay’ because sexuality is fluid …

#Gay #Homophobia #LGBTQ #Queer #ComingOut

VALAR MORGHULIS
https://thelavendergaze.com/2017/01/valar-morghulis/

All men must die.

Such a fact of life,
we fervently neglect.

Out of sight,
out of mind ...

#DarkPoetry #Death #GayWriter #Life #Poems #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #ReflectionsOnLife #Existential #ExistentialQuestions

DO YOU LIKE S&M?
https://thelavendergaze.com/2017/01/do-you-like-sm/

S&M: sadism and masochism – two words that elicit a range of reactions from disgust and judgement to curiosity and excitement ...

#Abuse #BDSM #GayWriter #Guilt #Power #QueerMastodon #QueerWriters #ReflectionsOnLife #Religion #Writing #WritingCommunity #Sex #Sadism #Masochism

FACING THE HURRICANE
https://thelavendergaze.com/2016/11/facing-the-hurricane/

We are afraid of the unknown – a force so much bigger than we are and over which we have no control. We are afraid it will crush us, destroy us …

#Courage #Death #Existential #ExistentialQuestions #Fear #GayWriter #Life #QueerWriters #TheUnknown #Philosophy

FOR NOW
https://thelavendergaze.com/2009/04/for-now/

You chose to sail through stormy weather,
unchartered waters and raging seas.

You could run away
live life as many do:
as “normal” guys – ...

#ComingOut #Gay #GayLove #GayWriter #LGBTQ #LGBTQLove #LGBTQPoetry #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Pride #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerLove #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #QueerWriters