Q Magazine

September 2025 issue feat. The King of Kink

q world: ELSKA TURNS TEN

ELSKA CELEBRATES TEN YEARS OF SHARING PHOTOGRAPHY AND STORIES DEDICATED

TO QUEER MEN AROUND THE WORLD

Elska is celebrating its ten year

anniversary. During this time, the

project has published over fifty

issues, spotlighting local men from

LGBTQ+ communities around

the world. To commemorate this

milestone, a print publication

titled ‘Ten Years of Elska: Special

Retrospective’ has been released.

Inside, a collection of Elska's favourite

stories and portraits has been

selected.

The compendium reflects Elska’s

celebration of honesty and diversity.

Instead of models or celebrities, the

men featured are beautifully ordinary

and appealingly imperfect. And instead

of highly edited and polished writing,

the texts are real, raw and sometimes

random. Alongside tales of coming out