Are you Gay/bi/Lesbian/questioning?
Does your local LGBT not quite cut the mustard?
...well check these out
1)Hijra colonies of India/Pakistan. Transvestites, transgendered, hermaphrodites and/or sexually ambiguous men living in colonies under gurus.Often castrated and and earn money dancing at weddings.Supposedly possess magical powers to curse and bless at will.
2)Queercore/homocore. creating an alternative LGBT voice. Criticises the mainstream Gay pride movement as being a commercial'rainbow machine' which marginalises as much as mainstream society.Queercore has a DIY approach with activities including zine making and music events such as Scutterfest. Musically Queercore or the gay punk scene is associated with bands such as the Gossip, Gravy Train!!! and Lesbians on Ecstasy and Limp wrist. Quuercore film producers include Bruce La Bruce (responsible for must see Gay Zombie flic 'Otto or up with dead people')and early John waters.
3)Gay skinheads GAYSKINS, and gay Neo Nazis. Evidently not a contradiction.. some follow the skinhead imagery and masculinity while others join for the violence.Broderskab or Brotherhood in English,a gay Nazi flic won top awards at the 2009 Rome film festival. Artist Attila Richard Lukacs uses this subculture as his subject,apparently Elton John is one his most avid collectors.
...Also Check out http://www.webring.org/hub/gayskinheadring
4)New York Radical Women, Shulamith and Firestone's feminist groups....What's barbaric and feels like 'shitting a pumpkin'?... Labour obviously.Part of second wave radical feminism these groups implicated the ideas of Ms Firestone (below). In her Dialectics of Sex , 1970 Firestone advocates unique methods (especially Lesbianism) to overcome patriarchal society. These included replacing the nuclear family with communes, sex selection and en-vitro fertilisation to replace pregnancy, which an associate of hers describes as ''barbaric", later comparing labour to ahem, "shitting a pumpkin.''
5) Gay Rights Uganda. Perhaps the most challenged group operating in the land described by the BBC as 'the worst place to be gay'' LGBT persons in Uganda are find themselves subject to beatings, media witch hunts and some very strange rumors spread by the African evangelical movement...
6) The Minoan Brotherhood; Gay male witches forming new queer identity against gender bias of traditional Gardnerian wicca.
7) Radical Faeries; Started in the Sexual revolution of 1970's, this group redefines queer identities through spirituality.Practices include co - creating, sustainable living and Earth-based spirituality. Nearest sanctuary located in Folltare France.
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