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Since 2017, the year of Marriage Equality, we have produced three editions of Bent Street, a journal variously described as ‘a twisted tapestry of our time’, ‘the road less travelled’, and ‘a page for rainbow essayists, yarn spinners and queer theorists, a canvas for diverse doodlers and alternative artists, an ear for wrathful rants and interesting interviews, an eye for raw reflections and a mouth for personal opinions’.

Bent Street is now evolving to become a bi-annual publication, with our usual end-of-year edition (The Year in Queer), and now a mid-year edition plugging into different topical areas. We are thrilled to welcome Jennifer Power, Henry von Doussa, and Timothy W. Jones as our Guest Editors for this first special edition on Intimacy Technology, seen through the frame of COVID-19. The circumstances of social distancing and the move to mostly online contact for many Australian alternative and artistic communities are partly what prompted our new publishing model. We see it as a way of keeping a community electricity alight and boosting our connectivity.

We would like to thank the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) and La Trobe University Transforming Human Societies Research Focus Area for their support for this issue. We thank all of our contributors and welcome new writers and creatives to these pages, as well as familiar names. We hope that the Bent Street model of creative collision will continue to spark possibilities through fusing together our many disparate ideas and energies.

Tiffany Jones—Editor-in-Chief, Bent Street

Gordon Thompson—Publisher, Clouds of Magellan Press