Is there such a thg as a gay god? What about a queer god?
Contents:
- QUEERG PAGANISM: A GAY PRACTNER’S PERSPECTIVE OF WIC-CRAFT
- PAGAN PATHS FOR A GAY MAN: WIC OR DIDRY?
- THE HOLY TWOSOME: GAYS AND PAGANISM
- GAY WCHCRAFT
- THE GAY ROOTS OF THE PAGAN REVIVAL
- MEET THE GAY GODS!
QUEERG PAGANISM: A GAY PRACTNER’S PERSPECTIVE OF WIC-CRAFT
(RNS) — But some pagans say more visibily for trans and gay members of a largely whe, mostly heterosexual muny is need. * gay paganism *
We are a UK pagan brotherhood for gay men based Manchter. Cernunnos has long been worshipped by gay men as a te embodiment of the mascule spir. It is important to note that not all gay pagan men have this viewpot.
A lot of gay pagan men follow the tradnal path every sense, and that’s great.
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.
PAGAN PATHS FOR A GAY MAN: WIC OR DIDRY?
How is a gay man or woman to intify wh this great unn of dive forc? How am I to relate to the Godss and God the sense of fertily, which is the heart of earth-worship? * gay paganism *
Iols’s shre Theb was often a place ed to bls homosexual unns, where male upl worshiped and ma vows. 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.
THE HOLY TWOSOME: GAYS AND PAGANISM
Acrdg to one study, the Pagan muny is the most pro-LGBTQ relig group. Why are Pagans so overwhelmgly support of gay rights and advancement? * gay paganism *
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. 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.
GAY WCHCRAFT
It is a ltle known fact that many of the early pneers of the Pagan revival England were gay: Goldsworthy Low Dickson, who me up wh the ia of the League of Natns, was a gay man, and had close nnectns wh the Bloomsbury group, and was a iend of E M Forster and… * gay paganism *
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….
‘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.
THE GAY ROOTS OF THE PAGAN REVIVAL
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.
This enuraged a homophobic attu many of the groups of the time. The rare group sometim weled gay men as brothers, but only so long as they upheld the polary r of the tradn they were practicg.
MEET THE GAY GODS!
And many groups refed to work wh gay men unr any circumstanc. The Moan Brotherhood is primarily a tradn for gay and bisexual men. Our Ftivals are rooted Aegean cycl and myths and are largely R, like those of other paths of Tradnal Wchcraft, n be sexually charged, and are cidly homoerotic.
No one is expected to do anythg non-nsensual; however, people unfortable wh nudy and homoerotic suatns may not be sued for this Tradn. I was recently asked by a young gay man if I thought Didry or Wic was more gay-iendly. 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.