Gay Spir: Myth and Meang by Mark Thompson (St. Mart's: $18.95; 320 pp.) - Los Angel Tim

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• GAY SPIR: MYTH AND MEANG BY MARK THOMPSON (ST. MART’S: $18.95; 320 PP.)
• GAY SPIR: MYTH AND MEANG (WHE CRANE SPIRUALY SERI) PERFECT PAPERBACK – JUNE 1, 2005
• EDOR AND AUTHOR, MARK THOMPSON, REMEMBERED FOR GRASP OF GAY SPIR
• GAY SPIR : MYTH AND MEANG
• GAY SPIRIT: MYTH AND MEANG
• GAY SPIR: MYTH AND MEANG
• GAY SOUL: FDG THE HEART OF GAY SPIR AND NATURE WH SIXTEEN WRERS, HEALERS, TEACHERS, AND VISNARI HARDVER – JANUARY 1, 1994
• GAY BODY: A JOURNEY THROUGH SHADOW TO SELF
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• GAY MUNICH

GAY SPIR: MYTH AND MEANG BY MARK THOMPSON (ST. MART’S: $18.95; 320 PP.)

Most Amerins have never heard the ias of Harry Hay, Gerald Heard, Will Rose, Don Kilhefner, Jim Kepner, Aaron Shur, Edward Carpenter, Mch Walker or Jam Broughton, et al, exprsed anywhere else those who believe the spir, pecially the religly orthodox, will have difficulty believg the radil msage that through here: “I thk gay people have to restate themselv as a kd of tribe, heal themselv ep wh , and then proceed wh the work we’re obvly beg lled to do. ”“Gay Spir” is no ls than an attempt to refe what’s normal, what’s good, what’s spirual, what belongs to the dive, who’s relig and who isn’t, and what n and should be done to fd fulfillment.

Especially homosexuals as answer is homosexuals as Faeri? Readg “Gay Spir, ” one feels how diverse and rich and excg every unual sex act uld be. When the parts about Gay Faeri appear, most people will lgh, but should they?

GAY SPIR: MYTH AND MEANG (WHE CRANE SPIRUALY SERI) PERFECT PAPERBACK – JUNE 1, 2005

Maybe gay men really do have a special “magil... But magil perspective certaly hasn’t been said very Mark Thompson wants very much to substute pre-Christian myths about male-femalens for the prevailg anti-gay myths of our society. Thompson do not thk gays are jt like straights except for what they do bed.

Instead, he wants the world to seek them out for what they are--healg, blsed kooks, as “blossoms” on the tree of, the Gays Are Normal Contgent will not like this one b, bee much of the morn gay liberatn movement has been a strenuo effort to nvce at least some people that gays are not odd and feme and nfed to profsns where passn and such are this book wise or prepostero?

EDOR AND AUTHOR, MARK THOMPSON, REMEMBERED FOR GRASP OF GAY SPIR

At the same time, “Gay Spir” is so terrific at makg the rear feel there might be somethg more wondro, more miraculo to life, and maybe, jt maybe, one shouldn’t e his bug-zapper on those Faeri dancg at the bottom of his the rear is darg and wants a book that vts non-tradnal sex acts wh vast importance, if the rear wants a book that reveals the tremendo hurt of homosexuals and a cry om the heart for the world to make a place for them, then get “Gay Spir.

Gay Spir: Myth and Meang (Whe Crane Spirualy seri) Perfect Paperback – June 1, 2005. Gay Spir: Myth and Meang broke new ground when first appeared 1987, givg voice to an entire generatn of gay men seekg alternative visns about the fundamental qutns facg their liv.

GAY SPIR : MYTH AND MEANG

This now classic volume has been wily hailed by the Lambda Book Report as among the 100 gay books that changed our liv.

This work helped shape a now ternatnal movement of spirually aware gay men. In s ft weave of anthropology, history and sexual polics, Gay Spir provis illumatg sight for all stunts of genr, queer and relig studi.

Edorial Reviews Review Gay Spir is so terrific at makg the rear feel there might be somethg more wondro, more miraculo to life...

GAY SPIRIT: MYTH AND MEANG

--Los Angel TimGay Spir lls gay people back to the Circle of Life as full participants the dance of survival and anthology is like the ras of sprg hasteng our unique growth, flowerg and un. --Gay Communy NewsGay Spir is darg, which only prov s timels...

Signals the openg of a new area of gay publishg, a field of spirual exploratn outsi the ntext of relign or polics.

--The Advote About the Author One of the premier nam morn gay culture, Mark Thompson was once the Cultural Edor of The Advote.

GAY SPIR: MYTH AND MEANG

Reviewed the Uned Stat on Augt 26, 2020This book is rich gay history and rife wh gay perspective.

I remend to every gay man mg on the eper meangs of who and why he what he’s here for. I adm to some bias here sce I know the thor personally, but is the bt summary of current gay thkg on gay spirualy.

The thst of the book is that we gays are different fundamental ways om straights.

GAY SOUL: FDG THE HEART OF GAY SPIR AND NATURE WH SIXTEEN WRERS, HEALERS, TEACHERS, AND VISNARI HARDVER – JANUARY 1, 1994

All gays and lbians should be acquated wh those who have stggled wh fdg those answers. "Thompson gave voice to a part of gay life and culture that no one else uld.

"Thompson was raised California and got started LGBT as a foundg member of the Bay Area-wi Gay Stunts Coaln at San Francis State Universy, acrdg to a bgraphy on his webse. He beme not only a rpected journalist but also thor, remembered for wrg The Advote's five history, Long Road to Freedom: The Advote History of the Gay and Lbian Movement.

The Advote was found jt one year earlier, 1967, and is now headg to s 50th anniversary first book Thompson's seri on gay culture -- 1987's Gay Spir: Myth and Meang -- was named by the Lambda Book Report to s "100 Lbian and Gay Books That Changed Our Liv.

GAY BODY: A JOURNEY THROUGH SHADOW TO SELF

" It was followed by 1994's Gay Soul: Fdg the Heart of Gay Spir and Nature and 1997's Gay Body: A Journey Through Shadow to Castro knew Thompson for 25 years, startg as a eelance photographer for The Advote where he took assignments shootg historic moments. "Mark Thompson was a groundbreaker for gay rights durg a time when was difficult to do so, " Castro remembered. An Epispal prit, Boyd thored several books on social issu and relign, and he was nsired one of the most important gay figur relign.

"But what is gog to happen when the last sodomy law is toppled and homophobia no longer tolerated?

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" "I mean, I believe there is somethg trsilly queer about beg gay, no matter how much we try to normalize , " he said that terview. Xviii, 310 pag, 16 unnumbered pag of plat: 22 cmThis book of says explor gay male inty and looks at ways gay men might fd a place and purpose human culture unique to themselvInclus biblgraphil referenc (pag 309-310.

Flamg whout burng: some of the rol of gay people society / Judy Grahn; Reform or revolutn? The challenge of creatg a gay sensibily / Michael Bronski; What price gay natnalism? / Dennis Altman; Thoughts on a gay state / William S.

Burroughs; Sex and polics of inty: an terview wh Michael Fouult / Bob Gallagher and Alexanr Wilson; Double reflectns: Isherwood and Bachardy on art, love, and fah / Mark Thompson; Children of paradise: a brief history of queens / Mark Thompson; Livg the tradn: gay Amerin Indians; Tellg a lie for Christ? Gay people at a cril crossroad: assiatn or affirmatn?

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/ Gerald Heard; Harry Hay: a voice om the past, a visn for the future / Mark Thompson; In the service of ecstacy: an terview wh Jam Broughton / Mark Thompson; Visnary love: the magickal gay spir-power / Mch Walker; Gay soul makg: g out si / a group terview -- Part III. The tth e out / Aaron Shur; This gay tribe: a brief history of fairi / Mark Thompson; A separate people whose time has e / Harry Hay; The evolutn of a fairie: not toward a new fn of Gay / Mark Thompson. The Role of Gay Inty the Transformatn of Human Conscns.

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