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Liam Heitmann-Ryce-LeMercier
Liam Heitmann-Ryce-LeMercier

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Published in Prism & Pen

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I Met a Guy in a Gay Sauna in Berlin and Now I’m Going to Canada

Opening up to new opportunities — I was asleep when he first saw me, passed out on a massage bed in the Ruheraum of the Boiler men’s sauna. The room is no bigger than a train station Starbucks, housing two parallel rows of about ten beds, as seen through a glass wall allowing visitors to seek…

Gay

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I Met a Guy in a Gay Sauna in Berlin and Now I’m Going to Canada
I Met a Guy in a Gay Sauna in Berlin and Now I’m Going to Canada
Gay

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Published in SNAPSHOTS

·Jan 2

Sunglitter Homeland, Ribboned in Bluesky

Poem for Australia — Hair combed by daylight, skin rich with sun, Nights spent in t-shirts through hours that run Silent in daybreak, beneath sky benched with green, Into blue afternoons softened with heat, Whispered and stinging to finally reach The still evening light that falls at your feet. Toes twined with sand, Hands wrapped…

Poetry

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Sunglitter Homeland, Ribboned in Bluesky
Sunglitter Homeland, Ribboned in Bluesky
Poetry

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Published in Prism & Pen

·Dec 20, 2022

A Gay Guy Invited Me to Toronto and I Fell for the City Instead

A boy’s own (Canadian) adventure — It was my 26th birthday last week and I am soon to be at the point of choosing between the northern and southern hemispheres. …

LGBTQ

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A Gay Guy Invited Me to Toronto and I Fell for the City Instead
A Gay Guy Invited Me to Toronto and I Fell for the City Instead
LGBTQ

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Published in SNAPSHOTS

·Nov 23, 2022

Green Summer Light (London Fields, Hackney, August 2022)

Poem for Eleanor — Outward movement in tangled space, Striding yonder at uncertain pace: To move and settle, To hold, be fettle, Is a journey wrought With scrambled and Conflicting thoughts; But is a journey better made When with someone whom also wades Through the shifting waters Of a new and non-specific life. If…

Poetry

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Green Summer Light (London Fields, Hackney, August 2022)
Green Summer Light (London Fields, Hackney, August 2022)
Poetry

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Sep 29, 2022

Party Until Dawn, Then Keep Going: Inside Berlin’s Tresor Nightclub

Burning midnight oil in the world’s party capital — Sunrise was at 06:45 that morning. I know this because I glanced at my watch while taking a cigarette break. The softness of the morning light presented a startling contrast to the muddy darkness of the club’s inner depths, punctured as it was by explosive puffs of blue and purple…

Nightlife

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Party Until Dawn, Then Keep Going: Inside Berlin’s Tresor Nightclub
Party Until Dawn, Then Keep Going: Inside Berlin’s Tresor Nightclub
Nightlife

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Published in Prism & Pen

·Sep 23, 2022

Sense of Place: How it Feels to Belong Somewhere as a Young Gay Man

When you know, you know — Some relationships form before you are even aware of them. Love at first sight is perhaps the most overused example of this, but it can also manifest itself as a song that stays in your brain for days after you hear it only once, or it could be an overriding…

Travel

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Sense of Place: How it Feels to Belong Somewhere as a Young Gay Man
Sense of Place: How it Feels to Belong Somewhere as a Young Gay Man
Travel

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Sep 15, 2022

I Was in London When the Queen Died, and Now the Lights Are Out

Deathly quiet in the capital — September 14th, 2022 The body of Queen Elizabeth II has returned to London and the capital seems split in two tonight. The central tube stations — Kings Cross, Leicester Square — are as busy now as though it were 8am, with as just as many people heading into the city as there are…

London

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I Was in London When the Queen Died, and Now the Lights Are Out
I Was in London When the Queen Died, and Now the Lights Are Out
London

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Published in Prism & Pen

·Jul 21, 2021

Ten Days with My 19-Year-Old Self

Reflections from self-isolation — One of my colleagues recently tested positive for COVID, and as I was one of the people with whom he’d recently been in contact, I have been forced into 10 days of self-isolation. Writing this now, I am just a day away from freedom, and I am pleased to conclude…

Memories

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Ten Days with My 19-Year-Old Self
Ten Days with My 19-Year-Old Self
Memories

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Published in Invisible Illness

·Jul 12, 2021

Failure, Dread, and Displacement: A Case Study in ‘Soft’ Trauma

Why I’m leaving England — Derived from the Greek for wound, trauma is closely associated with acts of explicit violence or disturbance. Sexual assault, physical and mental cruelty, alcoholism, and eviction from one’s home are watertight examples of what one would accept without question as traumatising experiences. …

Mental Health

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Failure, Dread, and Displacement: A Case Study in ‘Soft’ Trauma
Failure, Dread, and Displacement: A Case Study in ‘Soft’ Trauma
Mental Health

9 min read


Published in Prism & Pen

·May 4, 2021

Trans Drag Queen Margo Marshall to Ignite Fabled London Gay Bar

Livestream event will raise a lacquer-nailed middle finger — Queer people have long been forced into corners — and closets — on account of who we are, and for refusing to integrate into heteronormative society. …

LGBTQ

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Trans Drag Queen Margo Marshall to Ignite Fabled London Gay Bar
Trans Drag Queen Margo Marshall to Ignite Fabled London Gay Bar
LGBTQ

5 min read

Liam Heitmann-Ryce-LeMercier

Liam Heitmann-Ryce-LeMercier

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Gay writer who will always talk to strangers // Australian, 26 // Keith Haring & classical music // https://bit.ly/liam-hrl-portfolio

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