Black Heart Magazine

THE CAROUSEL HORSE

Peter Baltensperger — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:50:35 PDT

Ursula rode around the carousel on her wooden steed, oblivious to the screaming children and the smiling parents and the obviously bored and disinterested attendants. She had fallen in love with the horse as soon as she saw it moving around on the carousel and could hardly wait her turn in the line-up to mount it and ride around on it as the calliope played its all-too-familiar tunes.

HERE AND QUEER

Laura Roberts — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:59:51 PDT

Montrealers can be competitive. You may not think so at first, given our laissez-faire attitude that keeps us chill even in the hottest of weather, but there’s a lot of talent in this city, and sometimes people get bitten by the “anything you can do, I can do better” bug. This can be both a [...]

CLAMOROUS SUNDAYS, GET YOUR QUEER ON, BURLESQUE FEST & EROTIC BALL!

Laura Roberts — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:49:32 PDT

[UPDATED July 9, 2009] Sex News Round-Up for July 7, 2009: This week’s edition of the Sex News Round-Up is totally Montreal-centric, because lots of hot ‘n’ sexy events are coming our way. Here’s the deets… CLAMOROUS SUNDAYS First up, you’ll definitely want to check out my dirty, filthy storytime at Jeff Gandell’s Clamorous Sundays event, this Sunday, July [...]

BUSTING OUT

Laura Roberts — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:29:01 PDT

Summer is finally here! As the temperatures climb towards sweltering and the humidex registers somewhere in the “muggy and sweaty” range, the clothes inevitably start to come off. Despite Montreal’s permissive attitudes towards strip clubs, sex shops and swingers – who, as you may have heard, were forced to run from the burning Auberge 1082 [...]

WAXING ELOQUENT

Donna George Storey — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:23:39 PDT

As an erotica writer, I had to try it at least once in my life. For the sake of the authenticity of my art. And so, purely out of professional duty, I did indeed let a lady in a white coat dab my crotch with searing hot wax and then, just as the burn was [...]

POETRY WHORES

Laura Roberts — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:52:37 PDT

While poetry readings may not typically conjure up a frisson of sexual excitement, the new generation of poets certainly has a few tricks up its sleeve. Or, in the case of New York’s sexy new Poetry Brothel, those tricks and tips are stuffed into the bosom of their tightly laced corsets. Suited up in satin, lace [...]

REVIEW: FISH BONES + NEW POEMS BY GILLIAN SZE

Laura Roberts — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:22:53 PDT

In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that I love Gillian Sze. Not in a “we’re romantically involved” kind of way, but yes, we were classmates at Concordia University for our undergraduate degrees in creative writing, and from the first moment I read her work, I knew she was a great writer. So [...]

MS. SEABOURNE, 1975

Alan Girling — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:15:25 PDT

She passed around condoms and diaphragms for everyone in the class to examine. She had us scan glossy magazines for subliminal sexual imagery in photos of ice-filled whiskey glasses. One day she displayed a series pictures of female breasts so we could recognize the myriad sizes and shapes of real women—in contrast, that is, to [...]

SEXY FRINGE MADNESS

Laura Roberts — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:28:57 PDT

Though my fellow Hour staffers listed some of their Fringe favourites in last week’s issue of the Hour, I’d like to make a few of recommendations of my own. After all, this year’s Montreal Fringe Festival is quite possibly the sexiest in the history of the fest. S.C.R.E.W. you The first production that caught my eye, and [...]

EROTICA WRITING GROUP: WRITERS WANTED

Black Heart Staff — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:57:52 PDT

Are you an erotica writer, or do you aspire to be? Do you live in Montreal? Black Heart editor-in-chief Laura Roberts is looking to start a new writing group focused on erotica, with weekly or bi-weekly discussions, workshops, and a monthly reading series attached. If you’re interested in joining, even if you’ve never written erotic [...]