Witchcraft and gay counterculture
Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture
This radical faerie classic, first published in 1978 by Fag Rag Flatten, uncovers the concealed mythic link between homosexuality and paganism in an elegy for the world of sex and magic vanquished by Christian civilization. From Joan of Arc to the Cathars and the underground worshippers of Diana, the author shows how every upwelling of gender transgression and sexual liberty was targeted by the authorities for total and often violent repression or appropriation. The concluding manifesto calls for pagan reconnection with the living world, the creation of armed anarchist cells, and the destruction of industrial civilization.
This edition includes the essential new introduction by Feral Death Coven, which places the text in relation with Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch, anarchist anti-civilization thought, and new strains of paganism, and makes clear the book’s failures and shortcomings.
Publisher: Feral Death Coven
Price: $17
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 have 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 1978 by Fag Rag Press, uncovers the hidden 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 author shows how every upwelling of gender transgression and sexual f
Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture
This was a very depressing study and reminded me of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." This is a history of the development of human society told from the signal of view of the wiped out native cultures, pagans, witches and homosexuals.
As a gay man I've often been alienated from the domesticated, bourgeois homosexuality of latest 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 shadow from that. In his chapter on Rome it's light to see parallels to today; the military consumes most of the resources, dictates what leaders can do, enforces a "cult of discipline" throughout societ