My Love Is a Beast: Confessions (from Unbound Edition Press), a provocative and poetic look at one young queer man’s coming of age in rural America.His exploration in the kink and fetish world, his embrace of sex work and recreational drugs, even his move from city to city in search of himself and his people reflects so much of the modern queer experience in the gay meccas of the country today.
As Cheves moves from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Atlanta to New York, having sex with abandon, he moves through issues including a reappraisal of what it means to be “gay” today, his role as a feminist in a cis male body, and what is acceptance versus a betrayal of self.His embrace of sex work and his own sexual thirsts are laid bare, very bare,.