Inspired in part by the writings of Edward Carpenter and the Calamus poems of Walt Whitman, Hay saw the homosexual as much more than a creature fighting for rights in a hostile society. Hay, a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, joined forces with Don Kilhefner and Mitch Walker to start the Faerie movement in order to add a spiritual dimension to the (often dry) nuts and bolts world of emerging gay politics. Mark Thompson’s latest anthology, The Fire in Moonlight (White Crane Books), is a collection of first person accounts of the Harry Hay-inspired Radical Faerie movement. The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical FaeriesĪssociate Editors Richard Neeley and Bo Young This new anthology by the radical faeries is sure to delight and inspire.
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