StoryCorps Nashville: Radil Faeri At The Short Mounta SanctuaryIn the late 1970s, a group of gay men known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
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GAY COMMUN
Short Mounta Sanctuary got s start 1981 when Milo, the sole remag member of the Tick Creek Communy, announced a need for new members at the Southeast USA Conference of Lbians and Gay Men.
WHY THIS GEIA MOUNTA TOWN HAS BEE A GAY-IENDLY HOT SPOT
The Radil Faeri were formed rponse to what Harry Hay viewed as an creasg tenncy toward heteronformy the homosexual muny. The choice of the word “faerie” reclaims a term ed to nigrate gay and transgenr men; “radil” fers an emphasis on radil polics. Sce s ceptn, three new gay-oriented tentnal muni have formed nearby—Ida, Sun Valley and Pumpk Hollow.