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	Heathen Harvest - Radical Faeries
		If you are not familiar with radical faeries there is a very fun animated movie that tries to tackle the issue.
		The DC Radical Faeries is a religious and educational organization whose members organize to explore, promote and advance Queer notions of spirituality.
		Faerie Camp Destiny fills this need within the Radical Faerie community by supplying a regular schedule of gatherings in Vermont and the North Eastern United States.
	www.heathenharvest.com /index.php?topic=Radical_Faeries (629 words)

	Radical Faeries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Radical Faerie communities generally are inspired by aboriginal and native, traditional spiritualities, especially those that incorporate queer gender.
		Radical Faerie communities practice queer-themed spirituality associated with radical politics, paganism or neopaganism, feminism, gender liberation, and may encompass any and all religions or a lack of them.
		Faerie gatherings are a space "between the worlds." Generally, Radical Faeries celebrate the 8 pagan holidays of the year: Samhain (Halloween), Yule (Winter Solstice), Imbolc (Candlemas), Ostara (Vernal Equinox), Beltane (May Day), Litha (Summer Solstice), Lughnasadh (Lammas), Mabon (Autumnal Equinox).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radical_Faeries (989 words)

	Contradictory Views on Radical Faerie Thought
		And thus a grassroots social movement was born, the Radical Faerie Movement.
		Radical Faeries celebrate and explore the Gay Spirit, which is itself the source of spiritual existence, wisdom and initiation.
		When we called the Faerie gathering in 1979, we were aiming to reclaim and explore the magical homosexual universe known by queer wisepeople in all cultural traditions.
	www.whitecranejournal.com /wc01019.htm (2046 words)

	Electric Pride - Lesbian & Gay Products (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is my intention to share the history of the Radical Faeries, to explore their philosophies, and to evaluate their impact on this society and especially on the life of the gay man.
		On the same token of this feeling of connectedness, Faeries have come up with a philosophy that they call, ãsubject-subject consciousness.ä This philosophy is based on their belief that mortal society is a dog-eat-dog world where push comes to shove and the early bird gets the worm.
		At Faery gatherings we discover that we want to share rather than compete, that we like to listen to one another and exchange our touch in loving ways.ä In short, Faeries are defining the spiritual culture for gay men and in the process discovering the real gay identity.
	www.electricpride.com /spirituality/radical.html (3229 words)

	Radical Faerie Frequently Questioned Answers
		The Radical Faerie Fellowship is a diverse, rather unorganized group of Gay men who center their spiritual lives around various and sundry animist and/or pagan doctrines.
		The radical in Radical Faerie means root; we are rooted in the earth, in our community, in our hearts.
		Radical Faeries use ritual to open and close gatherings, to celebrate the Wheel of the Year, to honor the Full Moon, and to mark significant personal events.
	home.pacbell.net /apsaps/rff4p1.htm (2959 words)

	DC Radical Faeries - Go Ahead... BE FABULOUS!
		The DC Radical Faeries is a community-based organization of men and women who explore queer spirituality.
		The Radical Faeries are a cultural phenomenon, and there is no one thing that makes an individual a Faerie, but there are many qualities that together create the Faerie.
		So, Radical Faeries view all beings, animals, their environment, and the world from their own being, which is rooted between the worlds.
	www.dcradfeys.org /what.asp (1987 words)

	Peridot: Radical Faeries (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Faeries are both gay men, and men who prefer to use any other moniker that might describe them, as well as women who wish to be a part of the group, and people who choose not to be called men or women and beings who choose not to be called people.
		Faeries are organized as a group attempting to create community out of ritual and cooperation, except for faeries who are attempting to create community out of subversion of process and structure, as well as some faeries who wish to create chaos, often celebrating it, often not admitting it.
		Many faeries are spiritual, lifting whole or part of their spirituality from any one of the world's religions or spiritualities.
	www.riverdream.org /peridot/radical.htm (1125 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Radical Faeries
		This reclaiming of the radical notion that gay-identified men have a special place in culture dovetailed nicely with the experiments in communal living that had been continuing with varying degrees of success since the hippie movement of the 1960s.
		Both styles of faeries coexisted and shared their influence at the gatherings that were organized during the 1980s, at first in rural settings in the Southwest, and then all around North America, sometimes at designated sanctuaries purchased and maintained communally by faerie communities in the United States and Canada.
		The Short Mountain Radical Faerie Sanctuary was established in the hills of central Tennessee, near several rural communes that were openly exploring alternative consciousness and lifestyles.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/radical_faeries.html (737 words)

	Who are the Radical Faeries?
		As Faeries, we share a view of the world in which the dualities of either/or, minority/majority thinking are dissolved in the experience of "both/and," "I am you" ways of thinking and being.
		Radical faeries are invited to bring their fantasies, arts, memories, dreams and reflections.
		As faerie babes we were each born with a penis and (because of this penis) a burden of social expectation.
	eniac.yak.net /shaggy/faerieinf.html (1337 words)

	Radical Faeries FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Radical Faerie Fellowship is a diverse and unorganized group of Gay men who center their spiritual lives around various and sundry pagan doctrines.
		It is paradoxical the most Radical Faeries come into contact with the movement in urban areas, while the focus of the movement is on nature, ecology, and rural living.
		As for the FAQ's description of faerie structure, I'd have to say that the descriptions of group conscience decision-making, servants to the group, circles as sacred space are all aspirations of a majority of participants, aspirations that are often not achieved or that take unexpected twists.
	www.sexuality.org /l/lesbigay/faeries.html (2621 words)

	disinformation \| queer rites now: a brief history of the radical faeries (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With a fusion of anarchism, communitarian living, green ecology and North American native spiritual practices, the Radical Faeries sought to generate spiritual practices that would foster a space of "gay-centeredness" in which Queer men could fully develop, away from oppressive Judeo-Christian concepts of who or what a homosexual was supposed to be.
		Similarly refusing to be pinned down politically, the Faerie tradition still maintains its anarchic roots, and a commitment to deep ecological or green politics, sometimes referred to as the Lavender Green movement.
		A gender-inclusive Radical Faerie Sanctuary on 315 acres, in a mountain climate.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id767/pg1/index.html (1155 words)

	Serving the Spirits
		The Radical Faerie Movement, with its mèlange of spiritual practices, grassroots politics and counter-culture values, is a couple of decades old at this point.
		Both Vodou and Radical Faerie spirituality have evolved because the question has been answered, in part, by the organic inclusiveness of disparate beliefs and practices rather than the dogmatic imposition of one belief or practice to the exclusion of another.
		Faeries, feeling 'limited' by the use of ground flour, coffee and spices, began incorporating Easter candy, basil leaves and Chinese joss sticks into the work.
	www.whitecranejournal.com /wc01085.htm (1700 words)

	Radical Faerie Gatherings at Breitenbush
		Cascadian Radical Faeries are planning their next gathering at the Breitenbush Hot Springs Resort and Conference Center in Oregon.
		Radical Faeries, discovered and undiscovered, of all ages and colors, shapes and sizes, are encouraged to attend.
		On the property are a rustic wooden lodge, rock-lined meadow pools, spiral temperature hot tubs, a quiet Sanctuary, workshop spaces, a greenhouse, a mineral spring sauna, geothermally heated cabins, and a resident community of workers who've welcomed Radical Faeries at least once every year since 1982.
	www.radfae.org /breitenbush (208 words)

	Radical Faeries Almanac Entry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As such, faeries draw from the cultural traditions that come together on that part of the planet: euro-pa, diaspora fl, native american, hispanic, asian.
		It is true that faerie rituals usually follow a neopagan formula: a circle is cast, energy is raised through chanting and dancing, excess energy is "earthed," the circle is reopened.
		She is exploring a new dimension to herself, dancing the edge between male and female, the alleged sacred and supposed profane, the lavendar fantastic and the lavendar present.
	www.eskimo.com /~davidk/faes/almanac.html (1019 words)

	the laws of lawlessness
		And for the purposes of education and support of the belief that the earth is alive and all of life is sacred and interconnected, and to produce other related events as the opportunity arises to further the purposes of the organization.
		However, womyn and children have organically become a part of Faerie culture and society and are therefore welcome and included in the Faerie community.
		Faerie Camp Destiny follows an equal opportunity employment policy, and employs personnel without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental handicap, veteran status, and marital status.
	www.faeriecampdestiny.org /pages/bylaws.html (2859 words)

	San Diego CityBEAT
		Stillman identifies as a Radical Faerie, one among a community of nature-loving gay men whose name puts a proud twist on the pejorative term “fairy.” Radical Faerie culture began in the 1970s, when gay rights pioneer Harry Hay was inspired by the role of the Berdache—a sexless or pansexual shaman—in many Native American cultures.
		Hay created the Radical Faerie movement with the hopes of establishing an independent civilization of Pagan gays that functioned politically as their own entity.
		“Radical Faeries gather and commune together in nature to throw off the cloak of what it is to be a man in an urban environment,” Stillman said.
	www.sdcitybeat.com /article.php?id=3428&atype= (899 words)

	RixArtz Radical Faeries
		Faeries have taken their direction from gay mystics throughout history - from ancient pagan and Greek rituals involving homosexuals to the gay medicine men of the native Americans.
		Faeries weave their spirituality with the threads of many diverse sources.
		As is the custom in other religious groups, many faeries take on a selected name of their own choosing - sometimes to describe their personality, sometimes just because they like the name.
	www.rixartz.com /faeries.html (568 words)

	Amazon.com: Faeries: Visions, Voices and Pretty Dresses: Books: Keri Pickett,James Broughton (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The trust the 'faeries' have in Pickett, who is not gay, is so evident in her elegant fl and white photos as she captures a group of individuals who search for a place in a society the frequently denigrates their lifestyle.
		That the text was written by interviewing radical faeries about their personal exsperiance, rather than impossing an outside "expert" view gives one a chance to see the faeries as individuals rather than some tiddied up social phenomana.
		Her faerie photos are a mix of magazine-style candids - of guys cooking, chopping wood, talking, dancing, swimming - and more formal portraits in which poses, lighting and setting sometimes echo fine art, particularly paintings by Monet, Courbet, Botticelli and Vermeer.
	www.amazon.com /Faeries-Visions-Voices-Pretty-Dresses/dp/0893818968 (2842 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Faerie Paganism has a firm belief in the Faerie Folk stemming from the mythologies and folk beliefs of the Celtic and Nordic Peoples.
		Faerie also can be seen to have a double barreled meaning - a near universal and powerful mythological figure, and a derogatory name appliled to gay men by heterosexuals.
		By combining these meanings the the Radical Faeries expressed one of their basic tenets, the oft-bandied notion that gays are a spiritual tribe...
	www.eurofaerie.org /HISTORY.HTM (1398 words)

	OutSmartMagazine.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Up until that point, I’d never heard of Radical Faeries (which the book described as men who ran through the woods in combat boots and long, flowing skirts, often sporting questionable facial hair), but I was intrigued.
		They chose to call themselves Faeries for the same reason a lot of people choose to call themselves queer: They were reclaiming a derogatory word, and they added Radical to emphasize the casting off of their old identities.
		I decided then and there that the Radical Faeries were officially Not For Me. But a couple of years later, during a sort of spiritual lull in my life, I started thinking about that memorial and realized that it didn’t matter whether or not I was comfortable there.
	www.outsmartmagazine.com /cms-this_issue/200411--Faeries+Fly.html (1245 words)

	radical
		Faeries, held at an ashram in northern Arizona in September, 1979.
		Radical Faeries emerged in the late 1970's as both a part of and a rejection of certain aspects of gay male culture in the
		The Faery Circle's ritual was an attempt to identify spiritual needs and to articulate them outside of the hackneyed Judaeo-Christian tradition with a sense of humor and subversiveness (Evans, 187, 188).
	www.users.drew.edu /rlamborn/radical.htm (4118 words)

	Communities Directory: Folleterre
		Radical Faeries work world wide to discover and promote queer spirituality.
		We are a radical alternative to main stream gay/lesbian culture.
		EuroFaeries, the european strand of radical faeries: where it all started....
	directory.ic.org /records/?action=view&record_id=20479 (336 words)

	RadFae.Org: Radical Faerie Web Server
		California, Sacramento: New Avalon - Sacramento Radical Faeries tribe
		Hawaii: Aloha Faeries - Yahoo Group - Reese and Tolver - childmage@hotmail.com is an online circle for faeries who wish to discuss, visualize, and plan a new faerie sanctuary in Hawaii.
		Michigan: Huron Valley Radical Faeries, Ann Arbor tribe
	www.radfae.org /localcircles.htm (668 words)

	That Was Then
		Then, for about the fourth time, someone mentioned the Radical Faeries to me as if it was something that I either knew about or would be interested in.
		After I was to my second Faerie event, it was clear to me that I had been a Radical Faerie all along and not known it.
		Faeries were still arriving and the library was gradually filling up.
	www.scn.org /~davidb/thatwasthen.html (1057 words)

	Bambi Gauthier: Let's Talk about the Fringes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Having been a part of this community for close to twelve years I can say proudly there is something fringe about it, its radical quality is in the attempt to become inclusive, respectful and inspired by the diversity of queer community.
		That we claim so many aspects of our chosen community be it leather, drag, transgender, or pagan, deflects in some ways from the simplicity of the process we are involved in: attempting to regroup as a culture around values that empower us individually to shape our immediate lives.
		I see faeries as a family, as friends we have just changed the locale from bar, community center, extended friends to coming together at gatherings.
	www.mountainpridemedia.org /oitm/issues/1999/may99/letter3.htm (502 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Hay, Harry
		Meetings of the Radical Faeries generally occur in rural settings, and their celebrations combine Native American and New Age elements.
		At his side were John Burnside, with whom he had registered as domestic partners only weeks before, and his care givers from the Radical Faeries, who laid Hay out and sprinkled rose petals over him.
		A movement that emerged in the late 1970s, the Radical Faeries identify with the gender variant sacred outsider that has appeared and reappeared in many cultures throughout human history.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/hay_h,3.html (1267 words)

	The Rebirth of the Faggot God
		Thinking about what it means to be a radical faerie and our spirituality and how we are in the world.
		We’ve always held (Ok some of us have...) that faerie consciousness is about being Conscious above all else – conscious about the nature of reality and how we fit in it and we Know we barely know what we’re doing, it’s so new still after 25 years or more.
		I’m real interested in what other faeries have to say about this and how we do what we do and all.
	home.earthlink.net /~radicalfaeriesgossiping/id10.html (1119 words)

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