Taipei Taiwan – Elska

Beschrijving

Elska is a project devoted to sharing our voices and our bodies through honest photography and personal stories. Through our publications, we take you to different cities around the world, introduce you to a dozen or so local guys, and let you get to know them and a bit about gay life in their city. Filled with positivity, sincerity, ad-free and lovingly made, Elska is an independent gay mag that you can truly be proud to own.

Elska Magazine is our flagship product, your key to discovering each Elska city through its local boys and local stories. They are over 150 pages, split into individual chapters that focus on a local guy, filled with evocative images taken of him in the city and at home, plus the story he wrote for us. The experience is most intimate, letting readers feel like they’ve travelled there with us and really gotten to know these men.

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This edition was made in Taipei, Taiwan. It’s our first edition to leave Europe, and we chose what’s fast becoming Asia’s LGBT capital as its setting. As a country whose identity can be associated with defiance against Chinese communism, Taiwan’s spirit of freedom spreads into the gay community, with one of the most vibrant and open scenes on the Asian continent. The response from Taipei’s local boys was so great that this became the hardest issue to edit down.

Not to be overlooked, showcasing Asian men, especially in a way that highlights their sexuality, is still a rarity among gay publications, or among all publications for that matter. Despite the bombardment of advice that no one would buy an Asian issue, we did it anyway, because of course Elska believes that all men are beautiful, sexy, and totally lovable. “No fats, no fems, no Asians” – fuck that!

In this issue you’ll meet fourteen Taipei local boys, each contributing their own local story. Plus in our Elska Dehors series, you’ll also meet two other boys from beyond Taipei. The first is by Paul Sixta, shot in Rotterdam, Netherlands; the second is by Jean-Baptiste Huong, shot in Paris. France. These are two of the most talented gay photoartists out there, and we’re proud to have them in Elska.

Ondertitel: Local Boys + Local Stories

Auteur: Liam Campbell

Jaar van uitgave: 2018

Aantal pagina’s: 164

Bindwijze: paperback

Uitgeverij: Elska Magazine