Gay magick

I wrote Gay Witchcraft because I felt there was a voice missing in modern popular witchcraft lore. Contained in it is information I wish I had compiled in one place when I began the path. I was blessed by the gods to find a tradition that was gay magick scientifically based, encouraging questions and combining modern scientific thought with traditional magickal philosophy.

I see the Druid and the stone age shaman and I see my people. I found a partner who identified as pagan and was a student of ceremonial magick, so we explored the path of the queer mystic together. Our exchanges included much of the two spirit concepts found in Native American traditions.

All magick and witchcraft is an act of creation, and gay people ingeneral recognize, honor, and use both masculine and feminine energy as a part ofeveryday life. When I came to witchcraft, I was intrigued, yet still distrustful.

The witch archetype is associated with healing and creative arts, including herb craft, smithing and ritual drama. Many are associated with service, of aiding the community with their talents. Gay and witches have much in common. Though at heart all witchcraft is practicing the same principles, making connections to the same fundamental forces, there are different mysteries.

Its purpose is twofold. Like the enchanted beings of the otherworld, both live on the liminal edges, between the worlds. Gay Witchcraft is an eclectic mix of modern lore, mythology and history, presented through the worldview of a practicing gay pagan.

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Exploring the links between : Not only does it have a strong history of tolerance for homosexuality; it

I came from a Roman Catholic background, and deeply religious, yet skeptical of Christian mysteries because my Church did not encourage questioning or create many settings for direct experience of the divine, as well as being hurt because I felt rejected by the Church as a gay man.

Like the shaman living on the edge of the village, or the hedge witch near the forest line, those on the edge of society can have a sharper view of it. Gay Witchcraft is not a formal tradition, like the Gardnerian or Alexandrian tradition, though there are some modern initiatory traditions that are exclusively homosexual, such as the Minoan Brotherhood and Minoan Sisterhood, founded by the late Ed Buczynski, or the less formal Radical Faeries.

This life beyond the normal confines of society grants them both a unique perspective. The stereotypical male homosexual professions are in the arts and services industries, with painter, poet, dancer, musician decorator and nurse being at the top of the list.

Witches reclaim pre-Judeo-Christian traditions, and free themselves from the concept of sin. Recently, while at a book signing in the Castro, one of the gay magick gay districts in San Francisco, a wonderful older gay gentleman, brand new to witchcraft and very excited abut starting this journey, asked me, “What’s the difference between Gay Witchcraft and Straight Witchcraft?” I had to think for a moment and honestly answer, [ ].

The Brotherhood is a Religious Revival for Gay Men. It is an involvement in a reconstruction of the Pagan Mystery-cult worship of the Great Mother Goddess of the Bronze-age Aegean (circa B.C.) and Her Divine Son, who is the Patron of Male Homosexuality.

In witchcraft, sexuality is sacred, not something sinful or wicked. She would mention, just in passing, the ancient pagan orders that we would now term lesbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual, who worshiped and served the gods in their own way, and how they were honored in their society for their unique and valuable contribution.

And that was it. Even with all the progress that has been made in the last decade, many witches and gays remain in the closet, hiding an aspect of their life because of fear, or simply because they prefer to remain private. Through my own research, and speaking with other Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transexual witches, I gathered together modern and ancient lore concerning pagan homosexuals.

First, its designed to introduce Wicca, witchcraft and paganism to the general GLBT community, to present a potentially uplifting spiritual path to those called to it, as an alternative from thinking that there is no spiritual path that would embrace them as sexual beings.

Gay Witchcraft Christopher Penczak : Witchcraft has plenty to offer the homosexual community, according to Penczak (City Magick), a self-proclaimed gay shaman

My teacher would drop these tantalizing hints, stories of openly gay high priests in her tradition, doing a love spell for a boyfriend, or her lesbian priestess friend who were just handfasted. We shared rituals, spells and ideas that aided our own personal practice.

Second, to give voice to an aspect of pagan history, ancient and modern, to the general pagan community.