Rainbow Rising
Spiritual liberation is the missing element in the modern journey of LGBTIQ+ people around the world. Coming out about our sexuality or gender identity results from our need to be true to ourselves, we listen to our souls and from the soul comes the courage to be who we are. The same principle applies to…
FAERIE! Know Thyself! Be Thyself!
Oscar Wilde: ‘Know thyself’ was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, ‘Be thyself’ shall be written. Harry Hay: Faeries everywhere must begin to stand tall and beautiful in the sun. Faeries must begin to throw off the filthy green frog-skin of Hetero-imitation and discover the lovely…
The Queer Thing about Death
At the London Queer Spirit Samhain Full Moon Drum Circle (24 Oct 2026) we remembered friends, lovers, family and tribe in spirit. Around 70 Radical Faeries, Queer Spirits and Rainbow Souls gathered in our enchanted south London community hall, just down the road from the bars and clubs of Vauxhall, where, since Winter Solstice 2012…
How Homophobia Infected the World
The French and the British — especially the British — in the age of European imperial expansion imposed laws against homosexuality and transgender expression that are still causing injustice and suffering around the world today. These laws were attempts to impose European morality on the cultures the imperialists were subduing, as well as attempts to…
Pointing into Fairyland
What an enormous honour and thrill it is to see my hand, enlarged, protruding from a wall and pointing the way into Tim Walker’s Fairyland exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. This exquisite show features fantastic, inspired photos of 250 queer pioneers of the last 50 years – activists, artists, performers, characters who have influenced…
The Queer Spiritual Calling
IN THE ANCIENT TEMPLES OF ISHTAR, that stretched across the lands of Mesopotamia, which we nowadays call Iraq, Kuwait, Syria and the border lands of Turkey and Iran, from at least 10000 BC, the Goddess, often known as Ishtar, was served by gay and transgendered priest/priestesses. They were called ASSINNU, KURGARRU, KULU’U, legends told of…
ANTI-LGBTQ+ CRACKDOWN IN TURKEY
Under the guise of ‘protecting the family’ the government of Turkey has initiated a nation-wide coordinated attack on the freedom of same sex attracted and gender-nonconforming people. Never mentioned is the fact that queer children are born in, raised in, and are part of family structure, and of course always have been. This kind of…
Why do Benders love Divas?
Why do benders love divas?… was the question posed at a highly enjoyable Sunday afternoon Duckie event at London’s Royal Festival Hall (20/9/2026)… but unfortunately while the question was posed it was not really addressed and definitely not answered! The afternoon was good entertainment – a panel discussion about the adoration of powerful women (and…
Pride Triumphs!
It seems there’s no more effective catalyst to get the LGBTQ+ community on the streets expressing our passion, our pride, our love than challenge. The AIDS crisis was a key factor in birthing the globally connected network we have now, in the UK Clause 28 mobilised us in the 1990s to form stronger community bonds…
AIDS Survivors Syndrome
“…the most common features of ASS (AIDS Survivors Syndrome): extreme emotional pain, trauma, and depression; survivor’s guilt and low self-esteem; suicidal ideation; anger, over-guardedness, and chronic anxiety; social isolation; fear of aging; and difficulty envisioning a future.” The media love to focus on suffering: “An entire generation of AIDS survivors is now struggling with a…
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