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• GAY WIC GROUPS
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GAY WIC GROUPS

We are a Coven of gay and bisexual male wch based New York Cy of the Gala Tradn of Wchcraft. We seek to provi a muny for gay cisgenr men to study and explore the Male Mysteri their wchcraft practice. We also help gay men rell and reclaim their spirual signifince and how to navigate their power a morn society.

We provi gay and bisexual men a place to learn and/or epen their practice wh a 3-gree iatory Wicn Tradn.

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Gay men through men were meant to be wch. However, the centuri of homophobia have taken that llg om , leavg many of feelg isolated and alone.

The simple fact is that the current rnatn of the Gay Communy has fotten s magic, and ’s time to remember. Gala helps heal Gay men by reclaimg that anctral magil CovensLike and follow our pag to keep up to date on what each ven is up to their area.

Casey has worked tirelsly to empower Gay male wch to reclaim their history and rtore their rightful place as magil workers. What do mean to be Gay and the Craft? I thk there are several qutns here, a relig one about whether you n have a pagan fah and be gay - and a magickal one about whether is possible to work the Craft as a gay person:Gay you be Gay and a Pagan?

Do the Pagan Gods accept Gay people? 162)We know that most of the monotheistic religns tend to be a ltleoffabout homosexualy - at bt the rponse tends to be "Love the sner, hate the s". Most gay people will at one time have been quoted Levic or Pl by some bible-thumper as to why God hat religns and cultur have been a ltle more tolerant - Taoism and Confucianism have been tolerant of multiple sexuali, certa Hdu tradns the transsexual is seen as an embodiment of Siva and his Shakti, and the tradn of the genr-blurrg Berdache some Native Amerin Cultur is well documented.

Spirualy:The qutn here is whether Gay people are different. For a gay person readg such myths, 's easy to feel "but what about me? 169)No wonr that human sexualy is so plex (the Kiensey sle allows for 100 possible gras between the theoretilly purely gay and purely straight!

)Gay WchReligly and spirually there seems to be good reason why gay people n be pagans, but there is still the magickal qutn - n we work magickally as Gay people?

'You n't work magic wh a homosexual. Homosexuals jt n't create a current'"(T.

It is then that you get the ia that gay people n't work effectively bee they are Spirually "different":"[we feel Wic is] built around natural malens and femalens of md body and spir. We are therefore out of tune wh the whole ia of a "gay" ven, and would be very ill at ease if we were guts at one, however much we liked the people volved"(Farrars, 1984; p.

170)(To be fair a footnote the Farrars do say "We liberately rea om mentg on the "gay" vens (another particularly Amerin phenomenon) bee we feel that we are not equipped to do so and bee anythg we might say might be terpreted as anti-homosexual prejudice" They do have "homosexual iends" and regard their sexual attu as their own bs. They have even had "one or two Homosexual members" but only if they assume their actual Genr role any Wicn ntext. "In most Pagan tradns there is no barrier to Homosexualy.

164)But beg gay and a ven is still a different qutn to whether one n work Gay Wchcraft - or work sexually as a gay man wh Wicn rual... We are an tablished group of like md gay men who meet and celebrate the Wheel of the Year through magil workgs, class and rual.