Queer Spirits: A Gay Men's Myth BookWill Roscoe Based on tireless research in the archives of mythology and folklore, Queer Spirits weaves a rich, multicultural tapestry. Selections include everything from Chinese folktales to firsthand accounts of Native American two-spirits to the occasional gay archetypes to be gleaned from nursery rhymes, newspaper clippings, and gay erotica. Among the writers represented are Hans Christian Andersen, James Broughton, Jean Cocteau, Steven Saylor, Samuel Steward, and Walt Whitman. Interspersing these selections is the author's commentary on their meaning, drawing on his own inner journey, beginning with his arrival as a young man in the teeming gay world of San Francisco in the 1970s. The result is a fascinating, often loving testimony to gay spirit that shows how gay men can find the myths and heroes within themselves. |
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... beginning . Three of them work on the woman's dress of willow inner bark . One of them shreds and folds and trims the bark ; one spins cord on his thigh ; the third binds it into the ( bunches of shredded ) bark . The fourth one - that ...
... beginning . Three of them work on the woman's dress of willow inner bark . One of them shreds and folds and trims the bark ; one spins cord on his thigh ; the third binds it into the ( bunches of shredded ) bark . The fourth one - that ...
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... beginning to get tired of her task , for the little ones were a long time coming out of their shells , and she seldom had any visitors . The other ducks liked much better to swim about in the river than to climb the slippery banks , and ...
... beginning to get tired of her task , for the little ones were a long time coming out of their shells , and she seldom had any visitors . The other ducks liked much better to swim about in the river than to climb the slippery banks , and ...
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... beginning of the twentieth century , it became clear that same - sex love was a central theme . Gilgamesh , the unruly ruler of Uruk , and Enkidu , the wild man of the plains , may be the original example of Divine Twins . But the ...
... beginning of the twentieth century , it became clear that same - sex love was a central theme . Gilgamesh , the unruly ruler of Uruk , and Enkidu , the wild man of the plains , may be the original example of Divine Twins . But the ...
Contents
The Divine Twins | 14 |
Invocation | 23 |
The Basket and the Bow | 31 |
Copyright | |
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