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”
The Rainbow Message
“The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things,” said the old, wise one. “It is a sign of the union of all peoples like one big family. Go to the mountaintop, child of my flesh, and learn to be a Warrior of the Rainbow, for it is only by spreading loveContinue reading “The Rainbow Message”
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”
Pride in A Time of Crisis
I have been going to Gay Pride events since the mid 1980s, seen Pride grow in size, seen the emphasis shift from protest to party to diverse and inclusive community parade; seen the spread of Pride events to cites and towns around the UK. I’ve often been on the London march and went for yearsContinue reading “Pride in A Time of Crisis”
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…”
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 Meaning of QUEER
“Queer is a continuing moment, movement, motive – recurrent, eddying, troublant. The word ‘queer’ itself means across – it comes from the Indo-European root – twerkw, which also yields the German quer (traverse), Latin torquere (to twist), English athwart. . . . Keenly, it is relational and strange.” Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) “The soft-spoken queenContinue reading “The Meaning of QUEER”
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