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Editor's Note on Fairies Toby Johnson
"Attending a Faerie Gathering" Morley Chalmers
"Night on Short Mountain" Bo Young
These two articles recount Faerie Gatherings, one in Canada, one in
the U.S. They both provide a nice peek into the fun and adventure of
faerie gatherings.
"Radical Faerie Transformation" N .A. Diaman
By longtime gay novelist Nikos Diaman, this short autobiographical
sketch illustrates the appeal of the movement.
"Harry Hay, Radically Gay" Walter Robinson PhD
In part a book review of Radically Gay, edited by Will Roscoe, this
article discusses the important thought of Harry Hay, founder of The
Mattachine Society and one of the founders of the Radical Faeries. In
many ways, modern gay liberation can be traced to Hay's initial
work.
"Contradictory Views on Radical Faerie
Thought" Mitch Walker
This thoughtful piece by another of the group of men who issued the
original "Call for a Spiritual Conference of Radical Faeries," from
which developed the Radical Faeries per se, distinguishes between the
ideas of Harry Hay and those of San Francisco gay activist and writer
Arthur Evans, whose book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture
inspired a S.F.-based Faery Circle.
"On Being a Radical Faerie! Weeeee!" Steven Lewis
This article, by a Chicagoan not particularly connected with the
loose organization of the Radical Faeries, demonstrates that being a
"faerie" is more a state of mind than an institutional
allegiance.
"A New Kind of Gay Science" Douglas Sadownick
Originally a letter to the editor of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian
Review, this article by an L.A.-based psychotherapist and
accomplished writer calls for a new way to synthesize psychological
thinking with gay activism.
"Why Do They Hang Up A Dead God?" Bobby Gray
Subtitled "A Wiccan looks at Christian symbols, mysteries &
actions in the modern church," this piece critiques the place of
magic in religion, arguing that Wiccan and Faerie thinking makes
better use of such "powers" than institutional Christianity.
"Farmers' Arizonan" Mark Thompson
This whimsical news report by an influential gay writer and former
Advocate editor plays up the difference between gay faerie
consciousness and conventional thinking. Thompson's new book, GAY
BODY, a fascinating blend of memoir and archetypal analysis of the
gay psyche, will be released by St. Martin's Press in November
97.
"Gay Meaning" Arthur
Evans
The influential writer and organizer explains the "faerie" motivation
for his newest book CRITIQUE OF PATRIARCHAL REASON.
"Radical Faeries" Cassell's Encyclopedia
An entry excerpted from Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol
and Spirit by Randy Conner, David Sparks, and Marija Sparks.
"Joseph Campbell: 'Why fairies fly...'"
A whimsical piece quoting Joseph Campbell's discussion of a notion in
James Frazer's GOLDEN BOUGH of how costume and demeanor sets sacred
persons off from the everyday and, mythically, insulates their
"magical or taboo power"
"Bodhisattva Watch: Georgie"
Even in lyrics by pop singer Rod Stewart, the image of the
bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara shines forth in the person of a lovable
and beautiful gay man.
"Pride, Prejudice, Segregation and Spirituality" Don Clark,
PhD
A short piece by proto-gay psychologist and author of LOVING SOMEONE
GAY reminds us that "you must do something as a gay person in order
to earn gay pride."
"Book Excerpt: Critique of Patriarchal Reason" Arthur Evans
A brief excerpt from Evans's new book recounts how a hidden nature
religion (referred to negatively by Christians as paganism) survived
through European history.
"Review: Between the Cracks Gavin Dillard" Thomas
Thurston
A review of The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse, edtied by Gavin
Dillard ("the Naked Poet").
"Review: Que(e)rying Religion by Gary Comstock and Susan
Herking" from Second Stone
A review of an anthology of articles about gay people and religion
and spirituality.
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