Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning

by Mark Thompson

Other authorsWill Roscoe (Author), William S Burroughs (Author), Tobias Schneebaum (Author), Judy Grahn (Author), Edward Carpenter (Author), Alexander Wilson (Author), Dennis Altman (Author), Michael Bronski (Author), Aaron Shurin (Author), Bob Gallagher (Author), Harry Hay (Author)7 more, Geoff Mains (Author), Mitch Walker (Author), Jim Kepner (Author), William Moritz (Author), Gerald Heard (Author), Malcom Boyd (Author), Don Kilhefner (Author)
Hardcover, 1988

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Gay Spirit, the psychic and creative energies generated by people we now call gay, has always existed on the outer shores of our culture's collective consciousness. In the past, gay people were labeled heretics, perversions of nature, or categorized pseudo-scientifically. Gay people lived on the edge of the global village or worked within its mainstream in denial and disguise. But today that spirit has re-emerged and lives among us. This book of essays explores the possibilities of that spirit--suggesting ways in which gay people might find a place and purpose in human culture unique to themselves, departing with the questions asked nearly forty years ago by the Mattachine Society: Who are we? Where have we come from? Why are we here?

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