Slake’s Second Issue—Delayed for Gay Sexual Content—Coming Soon

During the early stages of printing the issue, someone at the printing house read and objected to the story “Tommy Crow” by Sam Slovick. It’s a story of teenagers falling in love—and lust, as teenagers do—and contains some explicit sexual language, including one scene that mentions a specific sexual act.

Slake found its printer through Four Colour Graphics, a U.S.-based print broker that provides sales and customer service for a number of different printers.

The magazine’s bulk print run was shifted to a printer in South Korea....