Two AI voices discuss my articles Laws that Punish Love: A History, 1600 Years of Christian Persecution of Queers and How Homophobia Infected the World Pip: Rainbow messenger, where the history is long, the laws are older, and the injustice has been hiding in plain sight for about sixteen centuries. Mara: Today we’re following shoktiContinue reading “Podcast Episode: History Of Anti-Queer Persecution”
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Sex in the Temples
Excerpt from ‘The female experience and the nature of the divine’ by Judith Ochshorn, 1981 What seems to have been the case in the ancient Near East, then, for most of the period from the third to the first millennium, is that both women and men performed sacred sexual rites in the service of femaleContinue reading “Sex in the Temples”
The Call of Cosmic Consciousness
“Just as a river has a source, so the river of consciousness has a source. It descends from Cosmic Consciousness, the consciousness of God that is beyond all creation.” Yogananda “Abandoning the quest and the glorification of the separate isolated self we have to return to the cosmic universal life. It is the blossoming indeedContinue reading “The Call of Cosmic Consciousness”
THE QUEER SHAMANIC CALLING part 1: Know Our History
Judith Grahn,Another Mother Tongue, 1982: The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. David Greenberg,Continue reading “THE QUEER SHAMANIC CALLING part 1: Know Our History”
Cambridge LGBT Alumni Gather
I am attending the Cambridge University LGBT+ Alumni Association Annual Dinner at Girton College this weekend – and staying overnight at Churchill College, the first night I will have spent there since I graduated in 1986! The LGBT+ Alumni Association “aims to provide a personal and professional network for LGBT+ alumni, to promote awareness aroundContinue reading “Cambridge LGBT Alumni Gather”
The Long War on Trans and Gay People
As Spring approaches and a UK General Election looms, the debased and immoral Tories continue their cultural war against so-called ‘gender ideology’, with the vitriol directed mainly at born males who embody a strong feminine energy – transgender, effeminate, epicene, androgyne, mollie, intermediate type, woman-ish man: there have always been terms, in societies across theContinue reading “The Long War on Trans and Gay People”
