In the Spring of 1978, I spent two weeks meditating and fasting with the spiritual teacher Ram Dass, who was still in the closet, at Lama, a Sufi community in the Sangre de Christo mountains of New Mexico. every year or two during the 70’s, and we would always carve out a chunk of time together to talk about the burgeoning gay liberation movement.
During the winter of 1969–70, Hay and John Burnside (1916-2008), his longtime companion, moved to San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, where they operated the Pueblo’s trading post and worked to protect Native American water rights. Hay (1912–2002) is a major figure in gay American history, having founded the Mattachine Society, along with several other gay men, in Los Angeles in 1950. Hay and I first met at one of the early Gay Liberation Front meetings in Los Angeles in the fall of 1969. The concept for the Radical Faeries had its imaginative beginnings in dialogues between Harry Hay and me in 1978 and ’79. I’ll focus especially on the first Radical Faerie gathering in the Sonoran desert of Arizona in 1979. This is the story of the genesis of the Radical Faerie movement by someone who was involved in its founding. Recently I received an e-mail telling me that the Euro Faeries and the Asian Faeries were planning a move into the Middle East, beginning first with Turkey and Lebanon. There are also scores of non-residential Faerie Sanctuaries as well. Recently a new residential Faerie Sanctuary opened in a rural area of eastern France. Three residential Faerie Sanctuaries exist in the United States: Wolf Creek, Oregon Zuni Mountain, New Mexico and Short Mountain, Tennessee.
There are Radical Faerie gatherings comprised of a dozen participants or up to five hundred taking place all over the world. Along with the AIDS Quilt, the Radical Faeries is arguably the most important ongoing grassroots subculture in the GLBT world at large. Since 1979, the Radical Faeries have developed into a vital international gay spirituality and consciousness movement. I earned my Bachelor's in Accounting from the University of Arizona in 2014, and my Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix in 2020.LAST YEAR marked the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Radical Faeries. In addition to massage, I have experience as a dance educator and am currently pursuing a Master's in Psychology in Life Coaching.
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