GAY SEX WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

3×3” waterproof sticker

INSTRUCTIONS

For 3×3” stickers, venmo me $4 at @charlielouevans‍ ‍

For bumper stickers, venmo me $6 @charlielouevans‍ ‍

For either sticker, write: “GAY SEX” and your name and address in the message.

If you would like to purchase the chapbook, find it online for $12 at Sibling Rivalry Press.

Every sticker and chapbook purchased helps me to pay off my top surgery medical bills and fund my Trans Continental Bike Tour Book Launch for my first full length book of poetry, The Quarter Life Crisis of an American Transsexual. I will bike across the country and perform my poetry at queer cities and towns along the way. On this tour, I will interview trans people across the states and compile a book of portraits and interviews that form an androgynous patchwork quilt of the many different (and similar) ways to be queer across America.

At a time when the current administration is trying to erase trans people, I am determined to show the beauty of queer folx in our creativity, community and resilience. Trans people have always existed, and will continue to exist!

Thank you for supporting a trans poet!

What The Poets Are Saying…

“I knew Charlie when he was just a gleam, just a whisper in a body on the way to becoming a home. I’ve never known someone more hopeful or resilient, or more likely to find humor at the core of cruelty and darkness. His poems reflected this, they were large and rambling and generous, and always, no matter their subject, conveyed the force and intention of embrace. While still the case, the poems in Gay Sex are even more deeply celebratory, joyous, and loving, for Charlie is no longer unhoused in his own body. Charlie is now Charlie, and Charlie is now home.” — Bob Hicok

“Charlie Lou Evans’ personal quest to reclaim his desire becomes, in these radiant and often raunchy poems, a broader appeal to embrace all that we’ve been taught to abhor—from the eroticism of slugs to the “permanent blood stain in the center of the bed / where our bodies / failed to become one.”

From the details of mental “sex tapes,” past regrets, and new erotic experiences, Evans calls forth something transcendent: a celebration not only of queer and trans beauty, but of a possible world where we are more alive, more permeable to each other. Ultimately, this book is a raw and unapologetic call to incorporate—from the Latin for “to take into one’s body”—all the lovers and selves we’ve called our own.” — Ryler Dustin, author of Trailer Park Psalms

“Charlie Lou Evans’s new chapbook, Gay Sex, is bold, sumptuous and uncompromising. There is so much here to admire. Reader is allowed into a space of intense vulnerability, sexual pain, sexual pleasure. And there is so much to be surprised by, surreal and humorous moments, such as in the poem “Cock Snake” where “One day, I peeled back my lips and a second head / thrusted forwards . . . I was making eye contact with my own cock. / It blinked. I blinked. / And we went on like that / for about thirty minutes / until it told me it was hungry.” — Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Author of Disintegration Made Plain and Easy