August 2026 brings the tenth anniversary of Queer Spirit Festival, of which I am one of the founders: 10 years of LGBTQ+ people collectively connecting through the heart to community, nature and spirit; breaking the chains of religious bigotry and reclaiming queer nature as part of the cosmic order is a ground-breaking step in LGBTQ+Continue reading “Here! Queer! Cosmic!”
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Queerness is the Crossweave on the Loom of Life
One Love One World One Spirit One Mind LOVE opens the eyes to the Oneness if love is practised as a way of life, allowed to expand and thrive. The Heart is the doorway to Heaven, but we also need to understand that: Consciousness is collective as well as individuated, love can open our eyesContinue reading “Queerness is the Crossweave on the Loom of Life”
Budapest Pride: We March for Freedom
I visited Budapest in 1990 very soon after the fall of the Iron Curtain, when the first glimmers of open gay life were just starting to show – nervous glimmers indeed compared to the astounding turnout of an estimated 200,000 people at the LGBTQ+ Pride march in the Hungarian capital on the 28th June 2025,Continue reading “Budapest Pride: We March for Freedom”
On Homosexuality
In the 1970s Michel Foucault wrote these lines that have influenced the discussion of same-sex love and culture ever since, with many accepting today the notion that same-sex lovers and gender-variant people did not begin to self-identify as a sub-group of the wider culture until the late 19th century: “Homosexuality appeared as one of theContinue reading “On Homosexuality”
Men Love Mutual Masturbation
When I came to London aged 21 in 1986 I discovered that men cruised for sex in public toilets across the city. From Wood Green, Highbury, Finsbury Park to Clapham, Brixton and Balham, via Hyde Park Corner, Green Park, Oxford Circus and Soho I discovered men were lining up against the porcelain and masturbating together.Continue reading “Men Love Mutual Masturbation”
in queerness it began…
It all began in queerness and in queerness it will end: there was no strict differentiation between gender roles for tens of thousands of years of human existence and sex was simply the sharing of pleasure between anyone of any sex. strong masculine women were once dominant in the world: the legends of the amazonsContinue reading “in queerness it began…”
Lamentations 5 13
There are many books out there discussing the various references to homosexuality in the Bible – Sodom & Gomorrah gay rapists, prohibitions in Leviticus, queer temple priests in Kings, love between David & Jonathon and Ruth & Naomi, Jesus on eunuchs, Jesus and the Centurion’s Boy, the Beloved Disciple, Paul wailing about pagan sex ritesContinue reading “Lamentations 5 13”
LGBTQ+ Activism
I attended Over the Rainbow, an LGBTQ+ History Month conversation between Simon Fanshawe and Mark Simpson hosted at Verdurin, a cultural project space in east London, by art curator and critic Pierre d’Alancaisez. Simon and Mark are veterans of the Gay Liberation movement – Mark was part of the grassroots Lesbians and Gays Support theContinue reading “LGBTQ+ Activism”
The Gay Spirituality Library
A reading list of inspired and informative, liberating and enlightening texts about the spirituality of love between men. C19 and more ancient roots: Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass (especially the sections Song of Myself and Calamus) 19th century poetic visions of love between men Edward Carpenter Iolaus (1902) “…draws on and quotes from a panoplyContinue reading “The Gay Spirituality Library”
The She in the He is the She in EveryBody
People are the mystery: some are sexy, some are stubborn, others are flexi; some people create and others just consume, some follow the trends, some sing their own tune. Some suffer, some party, some find the world when they lose everything. Some praise, some complain many are lost in the game. Some waken, some soarContinue reading “The She in the He is the She in EveryBody”
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