THE FIGHT SOCAL'S LGBT MONTHLY PUBLICATION NOVEMBER 2015

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Stanford Altamirano
MANAGING EDITOR Mark Ariel
ART DIRECTOR Nadeen Torio
MARKETING CONSULTANTS Tom Pardoe
Eric Slayton
Joe Faragher
With his first single “Sideways”
featured on iTunes and downloaded
nearly half a million times—and his
song “Ten Feet Tall,” featured in a
Bud Light commercial during the 2014
Super Bowl—it’s safe to say that
singer and songwriter Stephen Wrabel
(better known as simply “Wrabel”) is
on his way to becoming a household
name, writes Mark Ariel in this issue’s
cover feature—“Moving Forward
Sideways” on page 32.
Wrabel, headlining at Palm Springs
Pride this month, has written songs
for Phillip Phillips, Adam Lambert,
Katharine McPhee, Pentatonix, Will
Young, and Ellie Goulding and is consistently
called upon by top producers
in the music industry while continuing
to write for his next record.
In the interview with THE FIGHT
Wrabel, a gay man, talks about a
painful breakup, his creative process
and the “bully in his head.”
Also in this issue Brenden Shucart
examines a “sexual revolution
quietly building momentum”—gay
polyamorous relationships (“When
Three Is Not A Crowd,” page 38).
“Not to be confused with polygamy,
an often very repressive system
where one dude is entitled to multiple
wives, polyamory can be described as
the practice of accepting non-exclusive
romantic and/or sexual relationshipsbasically
ethical and honest non-monogamy,”
explains Shucart.
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