![]() ![]() ![]() And both have articulated new gestures of queerness and inspired a younger generation that often takes them for granted.Īs retold multiple times in The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries, a new anthology edited by Mark Thompson, the Radical Faeries officially began in 1979, with the “spiritual conference for radical fairies” convened by three main organizers: Harry Hay, a founder of the Mattachine Society and grande dame of the gay rights movement Don Kilhefner, an activist without whom, one learns, nothing would have gotten accomplished and Mitch Walker, a young would-be shaman. Both movements-though both resist the label “movement”-arose in the late 1970’s and early 80’s, and both advanced a radical challenge to the assumptions of the ascendant gay assimi- lationism. IF PROPONENTS of queer theory convened in the seminar room, the Radical Faeries gathered around the bonfire. T he Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries, 1975–2010 ![]()
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