Witchcraft and gay counterculture
Witchcraft and the Queer Counterculture
Andy
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This review is rambling, and a bit angry, but I'm not re-writing it again
This was a very depressing decipher and reminded me of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the Joined States." This is a history of the development of human society told from the show of view of the wiped out native cultures, pagans, witches and homosexuals.
As a homosexual man I've often been alienated from the domesticated, bourgeois homosexuality of up-to-date society. This stems from both the suffocating force of HIV/AIDS which has haunted gay sexuality for decades and made sex a rendezvous with Thanatos, and the emergence of "corporate pride" and our desperate seeking of respect and inclusion from a society that hates us. This book is a call for the stark rejection of that.
Paternalistic societies became increasingly militaristic, and many disfunctions pursue from that. In his chapter on Rome it's plain to see parallels to today; the military consumes most of the resources, dictates what leaders can do, enforces a "cult of discip
Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by Arthur Evans
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Publisher: Fag Rag Books
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Edition: First
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"The novel socialism is not just political, it is magical and sexual." First edition of this controversial and influential book, a history rather than a how-to-guide of gay witchcraft, exploring the relationship between homosexuality and paganism. Employing anthropologist and folklorist Margaret Murray's "witch cult hypothesis," same-sex attracted activist and writer Arthur Evans compares the persecution of pagans by Christians in old Europe to the current marginalization of and discrimination against the LGBT community. Evans was politically active in the s and 70s, participating in a number of sit-ins and protests in New York and San Francisco; he went on to become involved with several groups during the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s that eventually converged into ACT UP. His philosophical and political work is still felt today. Much of his text,
Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture
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From the introduction to this edition:
In the context of a renewed interest in the history of Witchcraft and the rise of Christian civilisation, this book offers a significant contribution. In recent years, anti-capitalists and pagans alike possess explored a radical analysis of these histories and have worked to understand the conditions by which patriarchy and capitalism hold developed together as two heads of the same monstrosity. This line of inquiry is perhaps best illustrated by the widespread reading and discussion of Silvia Federici&#;s Caliban and the Witch, and also the renewed excitement about Fredy Perlman&#;s Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
This radical faerie classic, first published in by Fag Rag Press, uncovers the disguised mythic link between homosexuality and paganism in an elegy for the world of sex and magic vanquished by Christian civilisation. From Joan of Arc to the Cathars and the underground worshippers of Diana, the writer shows how every upwelling of gender transgression and sexual independence was ta