When I ially sat down to wre this blog I had several different directns that I wanted to take , but none were tly about me and what I thk about Gay Didry. So I gus I need to start wh what I believe Gay Didry is. Didry for some is Celtic renstctn. For…
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PAGAN PATHS FOR A GAY MAN: WIC OR DIDRY?
Homosexualy is mentned negatively Irish eccliastil laws, unsurprisgly. In a culture where much emphasis was put upon breedg future generatns, exclive homosexualy may have been a strange ncept.
Amongst the chatterg class of Kensgton, homosexualy may be acceptable. A heterosexual teenager announcg their sexual preferenc to parents is unlikely to get much of a rponse, whilst a gay one still might fd themselv ostracised.
Before tellg anyone else that you are gay, straight, bi or whatever, you need to make a cisn about what you are your own md. Morn sensibili tend to associate love between men wh effemacy and mpns (and plenty of gay men llu this image wh gto! Found 1954 by lbian poet Elsa Gidlow and builr Roger Somers, Did Heights beme a cultural hub that profoundly fluenced a multu of cultural currents durg s 30-year heyday, om gay liberatn and radil femism to Zen Buddhism.
GAY DID BROTHERHOOD
The muny's importance extend through wav of cultural change, om the Beatnik poets and philosophers of the late 1950s through the psychelic and spirual exploratns of the '60s and early '70s to the gay liberatn, radil femism and genr polics of the late '70s and early ' Heights was a unterculture and LGBTQ+ haven ntled the woods (Cred: Fabrice Flor)A host of lumari were drawn to the se, among them poets Alan Gsberg and Gary Snyr; micians Neil Young, Dizzy Gillpie and members of Fleetwood Mac; actors Lily Toml and Tom Smothers; noted femist law profsor Cathare MacKnon; and activist Margo St Jam, known for her high-profile mpaign advotg for sex workers. Gidlow's 1975 book, Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophil Signifince of Beg Lbian, was a landmark of gay liberatn, as was the film which she participated, Word Is Out: Stori of Some of Our Liv, the first feature-length documentary about gay inty ma by gay filmmakers.
She had already broken ground by publishg L Mouch Fantastiqu, an unrground magaze published between 1918-20 that's nsired the first gay publitn North Ameri. I was recently asked by a young gay man if I thought Didry or Wic was more gay-iendly.
JT A LTLE GAY DID
There are credible acunts by people around at the time that gay people were not wele Wic durg s early years. Thgs have changed when to welg gay, lbian and bisexual people, some groups. How vens al wh this pends on the ven, but ’s not unual for gay and bisexual men to be asked to embody a role nsistent wh the y and rual/mythologil cycle, sentially meang that they are expected to take part rual drama which they portray the straight god ltg after and wng the straight female Godss.
So I thk perhaps my answer is that they are both iendly to gays, but I’m not sure that eher is particularly queer, which is a signifint distctn. 18th century nceptn of DidsThe Gay Did Brotherhood (In Irish, Na Brahre Aerach Didh or Welsh, Brawdoliaeth Derwyddon Hoyw) was found by Pl Sandford on the Wter Solstice 2002, as an ternatnal work for Homosexual and Bisexual men on the Didic and Keltic spired pagan paths.