Who are the radical faeries?
Um, “ask three faeries, get five answers” … ? Okay. To attempt a short description, from one faerie’s perspective, the radical faeries are a queer tribal nation sharing affinity in the spiritual underpinnings of non-mainstream sexuality and heart-centered relationship. We are historically and primarily gay men (many of us proudly seize the name “faggot”). And many who do not fit, or choose not to accept, these stereotypes also identify as radical faeries. We are bards, wizards, shamen, and healers. We have always been, and will always be. Humanity requires our existence, no matter how dysfunctionally it may treat us in some cultures and eras (though not all). We are self-defining. We each choose to be who we are, and there is no authority but our hearts. We gather together, get naked and beautiful … in oh-so-many different ways … drop the world, and open to each other. Unless we don’t feel like it. In which case we do something else. Historically, the radical faerie movement trac
