Re: What is the new paradigm for being gay?

didn't realize that rad faeries were mentioned in the qaf show. sigh. i didn't follow too much of that show. partly because i lived parts of it (more as a michael character than a brian kinney character). and what i didn't live i have had enough friends live.

i definitely think what the rad faeries are doing is cutting edge. i think it would be amazing to have the videos out for people to see and reference. would surely contribute to growth and networking around it all. i know that the short mountain sanctuary newsletter, at least last i heard, someone has to have been to an event to get on the list. would like to see larger access to networking with other rad faerie folks. i google them every so often and then have dialogues here and there with others along the way.

i am reading that harry hay book i think i mentioned and quite enjoying it. haven't gotten to the radical faerie section yet, but looking forward to getting there when i do. i think a lot of the new paradigm for homos is in the harry hay book really, even with only the limited reading i have done. his work is pretty rich.

i was organizing some books today at a new home for one of my grandmothers. she had all these books on different subjects. one was just a simple little book of marriage quotes, another was a simple book of days. i would love to see simple gay versions of things like that around. i enjoy drag queens, but to see drag queens with more soul and more art to them than much of the comic stuff i see would be nice. a few more layers of depth around it all, which i do see in some of the faerie imagery. relationship quotes mixed with unique imagery. real stuff. rich stuff. conscious stuff, but with creative edges.

do you see many solid relationships in the faerie community? how is monogamy viewed within it as a whole? from what little i have gathered it has seemed like there is an overall direction towards polyamory. what has been your experience and observation there?

-d