Queer spirits : a gay men's myth book / [edited by] Will Roscoe.
A collection, with commentary, of traditional myths, as well as excerpts from literature, poems, anthropological accounts, children's books, and newspaper clippings; compiled to inspire, guide, and challenge gay men who are seeking a deeper understanding of their sexuality and identity, of the...
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Table of Contents:
- Stories for boys
- The golden key / Peter Cashorali
- Two pretty men
- The basket and the bow
- A temple of the holy ghost / Flannery O'Connor
- Behind the hill / Samuel M. Steward
- First contacts / Jean Cocteau, Clyde Hall(M. Owlfeather)
- Rites of passage
- What one dreams, that will be
- The ugly duckling / Hans Christian Andersen
- I am holy
- Soft man
- The gallus and the lion / Antipater of Sidon
- Gay ways: the path of the two-spirit
- They have been given certain powers / John Fire (Lame Deer)
- A very great doctor
- I alone keep up life.
- I'm going to have you
- There was great rejoicing
- His appearance is brilliant (Asushunamir)
- Hurrah for the Mahu! / George Biddle
- Wearing rings on my ears and bangles on my wrists (Arjuna)
- Strap of my bra, hem of my pants
- Why Lizard's head is always moving up and down
- Son of the Sun(Begochidiin)
- A vast hermaphrodite / William Blake
- The divine twins
- Becoming one instead of two
- None like him (Kepakailiula and Kaunalewa)
- He is an equal to you (Gilgamesh and Enkidu)
- All ills grow better (Baldr and Loki)
- When you piss, I shall piss as well.
- That moon which the sky ne'er saw
- The way of initiation
- Gold is put into our eyes
- Muscle bound / Christopher Morgan
- Snatched away (Zeus and Ganymede)
- He fell in love when the mountain rose was in bloom / Ihara Saikaku
- And he remained with him that night (Jesus)
- You will now perhaps be less angry (Kolhamana)
- The ecstatic body
- The power of the Hijras
- He ceased to be what he was (Attis)
- Blue light
- Their beastly customs and inordinate desires
- Dionysus at the disco
- Our spiritual neitherness
- The circle of loving companions.
- Don't look back
- Thou shalt ever be with me (Apollo and Hyacinthus)
- Sweet to me above all sweetness
- His mind became healthy (Dekanawida and Hayonhwatha)
- The moth and the star / James Thurber
- Future spirit
- Sun and flesh / Arthur Rimbaud.