Witchcraft and the gay counterculture

Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture

This radical faerie classic, first published in 1978 by Fag Rag Press, uncovers the hidden mythic link between homosexuality and paganism in an elegy for the world of sex and magic vanquished by Christian civilization. From Joan of Arc to the Cathars and the underground worshippers of Diana, the author shows how every upwelling of gender transgression and sexual freedom was targeted by the authorities for total and often violent repression or appropriation. The concluding manifesto calls for pagan reconnection with the living world, the creation of armed anarchist cells, and the destruction of industrial civilization.

This edition includes the essential modern introduction by Feral Death Coven, which places the text in relation with Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch, anarchist anti-civilization thought, and new strains of paganism, and makes clear the book’s failures and shortcomings.

Witchcraft and the Male lover Counterculture

This radical faerie classic, first published in 1978 by Fag Rag Flatten, uncovers the disguised mythic link between homosexuality and paganism in an elegy for the society of sex and magic vanquished by Christian civilization. From Joan of Arc to the Cathars and the underground worshippers of Diana, the author shows how every upwelling of gender transgression and sexual independence was targeted by the authorities for total and often violent repression or appropriation. The concluding manifesto calls for pagan reconnection with the living society, the creation of armed anarchist cells, and the destruction of industrial civilization.

This edition includes the essential new introduction by Feral Death Coven, which places the text in relation with Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch, anarchist anti-civilization thought, and new strains of paganism, and makes clear the book’s failures and shortcomings.

Publisher: Feral Death Coven

Price: $17

Title

Witchcraft and the gay counterculture : a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy

Description

This book by Arthur Evans (1942-2011) is a rebuttal to the homophobic bias of “professional historians” and academics. Merging myth and history, the text is a self-proclaimed extreme and subjective vision of a pre-Christian world of nature societies, which touches on many themes including Druids, Gnosticism, witchcraft, matriarchy, class politics and magic as a collective endeavour. Published by the Boston-based Fag Rag collective, it was edited by two of its members, Michael Bronski and Charles Shively, and chapters were initially published in the journals ‘Out’ and ‘Fag Rag’. Active in gay liberation movements, Evans was a co-founder of the Gay Activists Alliance and of the San Francisco Faerie Circle. This text is still in print in pirated editions and remains popular with Fundamental Faeries.

Creator

Arthur Evans (1942-2011)

Location

Witchcraft and the Homosexual Counterculture

Description

From the introduction to this edition:

In the context of a renewed interest in the history of Witchcraft and the rise of Christian civilisation, this book offers a significant contribution. In recent years, anti-capitalists and pagans alike have explored a radical analysis of these histories and have worked to understand the conditions by which patriarchy and capitalism include developed together as two heads of the same monstrosity. This line of inquiry is perhaps best illustrated by the widespread reading and discussion of Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch, and also the renewed excitement about Fredy Perlman’s Against His-story, Against Leviathan!

This radical faerie classic, first published in 1978 by Fag Rag Press, uncovers the hidden mythic link between homosexuality and paganism in an elegy for the world of sex and magic vanquished by Christian civilisation. From Joan of Arc to the Cathars and the underground worshippers of Diana, the author shows how every upwelling of gender transgression and sexual freedom was targeted by the authorities for total and often stormy repression or appropriation. The