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”
there’s more to being queer than our gender or sexuality
Our ancestors have been trying to tell us… there’s more to being queer than our gender or sexuality the reason why the LGBTQ belong together is because of our spiritual nature which is what monotheism was really trying to suppress… “And if the vulgar and malignant crowdMisunderstand the love with which we’re blessed,Its worth isContinue reading “there’s more to being queer than our gender or sexuality”
He-Males, She-Males, He-Shes and They/Thems
in the blur of nonbinary newness and gender ideological mudslinging, it seems we’ve forgotten there’s always been both he-males and she-males, both he-shes and they/thems, butches, bitches and femmes. biological definitions of gender are just part of our current cultural mythology that rates science over soul the exterior over the interior and hides the sacredContinue reading “He-Males, She-Males, He-Shes and They/Thems”
IN-BETWEEN PEOPLE
“The words gay and lesbian do not exist in the village, but there is the word gatekeeper. Gatekeepers are people who live a life at the edge between the worlds – the world of the village and the world of spirit.” In-Between People are born to live at the threshold between the polarities of gender,Continue reading “IN-BETWEEN PEOPLE”
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…”
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”
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 lovelyContinue reading “FAERIE! Know Thyself! Be Thyself!”
The Uranian Vision
INTRODUCTION In the late 19th century, as the new science of psychology grappled with the notion of same sex love, the new term ‘homosexual’ did not sit well with some gay men, who believed that nature created queer people for much more than sex. Uranian was a term for same-sex lovers and genderfluid people favouredContinue reading “The Uranian Vision”
GAY LOVE COULD SAVE HUMANITY
African Wisdom Teacher Malidoma Some of the Dagara Tribe brought his tribal understanding of gender and sexuality to the West in the 1990s. He, and his wife Sobonfu Some, both taught that it was accepted in their culture that a person’s inner gender may be different to their physical sex, and that the sexuality ofContinue reading “GAY LOVE COULD SAVE HUMANITY”
Gay Priests of the Goddess
“Our beautiful lovely sexuality is the gateway to spirit. Under all organised religions of the past, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, there has been a separation of carnality, or shall we say of flesh or earth or sex, and spirituality. As far as I am concerned they are all the same thing, and what we need toContinue reading “Gay Priests of the Goddess”
The Queer Spiritual Inheritance
When I write and speak about the commonalities between the spiritual roles often taken by same-sex loving and gender-fluid people in traditional cultures around the world and also in pre-Christian Europe I tend to feel like I am delivering ‘news’, releasing a perspective little known in the world. However it is no new discovery IContinue reading “The Queer Spiritual Inheritance”
Gay Spirituality
Spirituality is about the search for the Self (while religion tends to put the emphasis on relationship with a God figure, spirituality honours the divine within us and all beings). Science gives us tools to explore and examine the outer universe, and spirituality offers tools to discover the riches and mysteries of the inner planes.Continue reading “Gay Spirituality”
Sodomites in the Temple
There were SODOMITES in the temples so the so-called Holy Bible says – but the sodomites were the real Holy Ones, which is maybe why some straight Christians hate gays. They were known as the Qedesh, the Anointed – People went to see them to make offerings to the Gods, seeking answers through divination orContinue reading “Sodomites in the Temple”
Texts of Queer Spirit
Queer is a 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 transgendered priest/priestesses. They were called ASSINNU, KURGARRU, KULU’U, and the worship of IshtarContinue reading “Queer is a Spiritual Calling”
rainbow messenger 