Ten Years of Elska: Special Retrospective

Elska is a bi-monthly photography and culture publication dedicated to sharing the bodies and voices of gay communities all over the world. Each issue is made in a different city where readers get to know to several local gay guys through honest photography and personal storytelling. One article described Elska as "part intellectual queer pin-up mag and part sexy anthropology journal", and another as "probably the nicest, most sincere magazine ever". We quite like that!

Ten Years of Elska: Special Retrospective

The ‘Ten Years of Elska: Special Retrospective’ celebrates our milestone anniversary by taking a look back at our favourite stories and portraits from the first ten years of Elska. Inside are fifty chapters, each dedicated to one elskan and their story from all of our first fifty issues.

With nearly eight hundred local boys and local stories featured so far, it’s pretty much impossible to choose favourites, but here are the fifty men we’ve chosen for this special retrospective: Albin H, Alejandro G, André N, Andrew S, Ashul S, Bastian C, Bruno V, Bryill B, Cathal Ó F, Dan S, Daniel U, Dave R, Davið J, Efe B, Faraz A, Fayçal B, Filip S, Han L, Jamin P, Jay E, Jayke F, Jayvon T, Jimmy E, John B, Juan C, Julien R, Kai B, Kolya K, Larry D, Lian J K, Matthew L, Max G, Milan C, Mohammad R, Mykola K, Natthasit B, Nika J, Oleksii V, Omar B, Patrick Inada A, Ran M, Rodrigo F C, Ruben S, Salman C, Santi G D, Santino M, Tal M, Toni K, Yuri K

And here are the topics of just some of the fifty stories included:

• a travelogue from Paris about some men discovered (and fallen for) during a road trip around Eastern Europe

• a call from Odesa to understand, or at least think more about, what's happening in Ukraine

• a diatribe from Belfast about the rampant homophobia in Northern Irish society;

• a tale from Manila of how to flirt on a super-crowded Metro train

• a ode from Pittsburgh to the pleasures of being part of a throuple

• an account from Salt Lake City about coming of age and coming out in Mormon a community

• a memory from Tbilisi of what the author, as a little boy, felt when Russia invaded his country

• a recollection from Providence of a typical night out, including good music, good men and good porn

• a poem from Mumbai about a fascination for foreskins

• a story from Montréal about falling in love in the car park of a poutine joint while singing along to some songs on the radio

• and many, many more!