Your answer made me risk a second look. I think what really hurt my eyes was the "contents" page - the combination of unreadability and not knowing what it is all about made my eyes hurt. I clicked "contents" first because I hoped it would let me figure out what your page is all about (english not being my first language, I didn't realise that Queensspech would be a journal about/for homosexuals).

I clicked on article links now, and I think they are acceptable (some finetuning of the colors wouldn't hurt, though). The layout reminds me of the time when I still read Wired (but I hated their layout), but more happily, of the 80ies, when school magazines would still be created with scissors and glue.

I am still not sure what the "contents" page is about...