i, a lover of men and women, meandering before a high altar, safe in the crumbling tower— orphaned in self-denial, left with the obvious absurdity of god himself, over respectability and renegade ambitions, my delusions gave no comforting superstitions—
Excerpt from “the gay atheistic beloved” by Caseyrenée Lopez with text appropriated from The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice, published in Calamus Journal










