Queerg Paganism: A Gay Practner’s Perspective of Wic-Craft

Happy Pri Month everyone! People are always askg me what are my remendatns for books on gay or queer wchcraft books. So I thought I'd kick off pri month by sharg my top eight favore books on the subject. I listed them alphabetil orr and reposted the "official" synopsis of the books. * gay witchcraft *

Astarte, the Semic Godss of war and sexual love, had a ste of gay male prits her templ lled the is famo for his sexual prows wh both mains and shepherds.

Iols’s shre Theb was often a place ed to bls homosexual unns, where male upl worshiped and ma vows.

BEG A GAY WCH

The thor of 'Gay Wchcraft' shar his experienc of an empowerg spirual practice that celebrat alternative sexualy. * gay witchcraft *

This was most famoly done by possibly the world’s only gay army, The Sacred Band of Theb, who swore soldiers to their legn at the tomb of, Artemis and Htia were specifilly virg Godss, possibly implyg asexualy. This is why beg a wch and a pagan ronat wh me as someone wh the LGBTQ+ muny specifilly as a gay man.

And I’m not the only one; exampl would be Alex Sanrs, the -founr of Alexandrian Wic, who me out as bisexual later life and created new ruals which sexual orientatn was irrelevant & Edmund “Eddie” Buczynski who the mid-1970s found The Moan Brotherhood as a Wicn tradn for gay and bisexual men. A notable and fluential homosexual Wicn Author would be Stt Cunngham who wrote some of the most popular books on Wic-Craft. The first two books I read regards to the Craft were Gay Wchcraft: Empowerg the Tribe and Sons of the Godss: A Young Man’s Gui to Wic wrten by a nomee for the Lambda Lerary Award for Spirualy, Christopher Penczak who found his pagan path after searchg for a spirualy that honored and embraced his homosexualy.

GAY WCHCRAFT BY CHRISTOPHER PENCZAK

Our missn is to heal and empower Gay men through Wchcraft. * gay witchcraft *

Many tradnal Wicns mata the emphasis on male-female pairgs and an acceptance of homosexualy. Margaret Adler wr her book Drawg down the moon: Wch, Dids, Godss-worshippers, and other pagans Ameri, “Some will claim that morn Wicns veneratg a homophobic prit, livg by his l, and fendg him dogmatilly don’t have any effect on how they treat LGBT people.

I have found more acceptance pagan circl as an openly gay man both om other LGBTQ+ pagans as well as their straight/cis-genred unterparts than I ever did growg up the Christian church. It matters not whether we are gay, straight, bisexual, or transgenred – the physil world is sacred, and we are celebratg our physily, sexualy, human nature, and celebratg the Godss, Giver of ALL life and soul of ALL nature. A product of his time, Gardner was known by others to be racist, sexist, as well as beg homo/queerphobic.

Lois Bourne, another High prits who was iated by Gardner had this to say her book Dancg wh Wch, “Gerald was homophobic. He had a ep hatred and ttatn of homosexualy, which he regard as a disgtg perversn and a flagrant transgrsn of natural law….

GAY WCHCRAFT

When Christopher Penczak was troduced to Wchcraft, he found a spirual path that hononred and embraced his homosexualy. Now he has wrten a book of clearhead theory and practice that is bound to bee a classic. Wh Gay Wchcraft, Penczak jos the ranks of his forebearers spir, gay wrers who have t * gay witchcraft *

‘There are no homosexual wch, and is not possible to be a homosexual and a wch’ Gerald almost shouted. Gardner is sayg that homosexual acts of rual which men iate each other, or women iate each other, should be cursed by the Gods and Godss of Wic-craft. Coupled wh the ia that homosexual iatns are ‘evil’, means that a cis-female, regardls of her orientatn, has to be iated by a cis-male.

GAY WCHCRAFT

When Christopher Penczak acknowledged that he was gay, he felt betrayed by the Catholic Church of his childhood and turned away om any relig exprsn. When he was troduced to Wchcraft, he found a spirual path that honoured and embraced him. Now he has wrten a book of clearhead theory and practice that * gay witchcraft *

There is no way that homophobia, a heavy foc on male-female polary, and heteronormativy did not some form bias the ruals and affect the way they were performed and put together.

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The Keys to Gay Wchcraft * gay witchcraft *

What do mean to be a gay wch?

Beg gay is jt an aspect of this life, this earthwalk.

GAY WCHCRAFT

When Christopher Penczak was troduced to Wchcraft, he found a spirual path that hononred and embraced his homosexualy. Now he has wrten a book of clearhead theory and practice that is bound to bee a classic. Wh Gay Wchcraft, Penczak jos the ranks of his forebearers spir, ga… * gay witchcraft *

I thk rencilg the fact that I am gay and a spirual person -- g om a time, place and culture that often se those two as mutually exclive -- forced me to really exame beg a gay man a different way.

Whatever spirual practice I looked at my studi, I would always seek to know what the relign thought about and how they treated women and homosexuals. Beg a gay wch is reclaimg the spir of tradns that predate more domant religns and reaffirm the sacredns the balance between genrs, by honorg those wh different mix of male and female energy, such as those om the gay/ lbian/ bisexual/ transgenred muny. " Can you talk about the parallels, your own experience, between g out as a homosexual to your iends and fay and g "out of the broom closet"?

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(RNS) — But some pagans say more visibily for trans and gay members of a largely whe, mostly heterosexual muny is need. * gay witchcraft *

I beme a wch before I me out as beg gay. When you e out of the closet [as a homosexual], you are changed.

First you e out to yourself, and really nscly acknowledge the fact that you are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenred. You say that some gays are turned off by the heterosexual imagery of god and godss that domat neo-paganism -- the emphasis on the unn between oppose sex and fertily r and so forth. How do you, as a gay wch, envisn the dive?