In 19th century America, Walt Whitman dreamed of unlocking the potential in every man’s heart to love other men. He did not envision male same-sex attraction as a minority phenomenon. “Whitman knew that capacity for same-sex love lies in every man’s heart. He had seen it and experienced it firsthand in the war hospitals. ItContinue reading “Whitman’s Comrades”
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The Gay Lovers of Apollo
“In order to free homosexuality from being viewed through the lens of pathology and perversity, we may need to return it to the gods.” Christine Downing, Myths and Mysteries of Same Sex Love. Greek historian Plutarch (lived 46-c119 CE), who was himself a priest of Apollo, wrote in his work Parallel Lives: ‘And there isContinue reading “The Gay Lovers of Apollo”
Eros: Ancient God of Love
In the civilisations of ancient Europe LOVE was regarded as a primordial, winged deity: In Hesiod’s Theogony (Greece, C8 BCE) only Chaos and Gaia were said to be older. EROS was the last God to be born from the fundamental, raw, divine energies of Creation – after him, other gods manifested through the union ofContinue reading “Eros: Ancient God of Love”
Carpenter’s Wisdom: Love
English philosopher, poet and mystic Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) had an enlightening ‘cosmic consciousness’ experience in 1881, aged 37. “As a direct result of the oncoming of the Cosmic Sense he practically resigned his social rank and became a laborer; that is to say, he procured a few acres of land not many miles from Dronfield,Continue reading “Carpenter’s Wisdom: Love”
LOVE OF ALL KINDS
Between adult Humans, various kinds of erotic love are possible love of woman and woman love of man and man love of woman and man sometimes the sex of the body does not reflect the active gender of the person . all forms of gender and love deserve respect and honour all deserve room toContinue reading “LOVE OF ALL KINDS”
Canaries in the meth mine
the second sexual revolution has been building since the turn of the millennium once AIDS had disappeared from our hospitals and gay bars. dating websites were the start of the cyber game, which gay men embraced with gusto where drug deals and dates started to become a normal combination in some quarters gaydar – gayContinue reading “Canaries in the meth mine”
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