Queer Spirits

Queer Spirits
Title Queer Spirits PDF eBook
Author Will Roscoe
Publisher Beacon Press (MA)
Pages 386
Release 1995
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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A fascinating collection of myths and stories from around the world that offers gay men a key to discovering the myths and heroes of their lives.

Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit

Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit
Title Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit PDF eBook
Author Randy P. Conner
Publisher Burns & Oates
Pages 408
Release 1997
Genre Reference
ISBN

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Did you know that in medieval French folklore a person might change sex by passing under a rainbow? Or that same-sex unions have been celebrated by peoples of the ancient Mediterranean, Africa, China, and Indigenous America? Or that Sappho, da Vinci, Emily Dickinson, Nijinsky, Benjamin Britten, Mishima, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Keith Haring, Boy George, and Derek Jarman number among those who have explored the spiritual dimension of gender and sexuality in their works? While the terms many of us employ today to identify ourselves - 'queer', 'lesbian', 'gay', 'bisexual', 'transgendered' - differ markedly from those of peoples of other times and places, we are nevertheless the bearers of a rich spiritual history that has been ignored or suppressed, a history encoded in sacred texts as well as in works of art, music, dance and other media. Drawing upon religion, mythology, folklore, anthropology, history and the arts, the Encyclopedia is a cornucopia of queer spirituality, containing over 1,500 alphabetically arranged entries from Aakulujjuusi to Zeus.

Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies

Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies
Title Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies PDF eBook
Author Sam See
Publisher Fordham University Press
Pages 287
Release 2020-01-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0823287009

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Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013. In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be considered queer. In Part II, See proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the foundational myth for the building of queer communities. With essays by Scott Herring, Heather Love, and Wendy Moffat.

Queer Ancient Ways

Queer Ancient Ways
Title Queer Ancient Ways PDF eBook
Author Zairong Xiang
Publisher punctum books
Pages 268
Release 2018
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1947447939

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Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources. In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is not supported, and in some cases actively discouraged, by the texts themselves. An exercise in decolonial learning-to-learn from non-Western and non-modern cosmologies, Xiang's work uncovers a rich queer imaginary that had been all-but-lost to modern thought, in the process critically revealing the operations of modern/colonial systems of gender/sexuality and knowledge-formation that have functioned, from the Conquista de America in the sixteenth century to the present, to keep these systems in obscurity. At the heart of Xiang's argument is an account of the way the unfounded feminization of figures such as the Babylonian (co)creatrix Tiamat, and the Nahua creator-figures Tlaltecuhtli and Coatlicue, is complicit with their monstrification. This complicity tells us less about the mythologies themselves than about the dualistic system of gender and sexuality within which they have been studied, underpinned by a consistent tendency in modern/colonial thought to insist on unbridgeable categorical differences. By contextualizing these deities in their respective mythological, linguistic, and cultural environments, through a unique combination of methodologies and critical traditions in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl, Xiang departs from the over-reliance of much contemporary queer theory on European (post)modern thought. Much more than a queering of the non-Western and non-modern, Queer Ancient Ways thus constitutes a decolonial and transdisciplinary engagement with ancient cosmologies and ways of thought which are in the process themselves revealed as theoretical sources of and for the queer imagination.

Lovers' Legends

Lovers' Legends
Title Lovers' Legends PDF eBook
Author Andrew Calimach
Publisher Haiduk Press
Pages 196
Release 2002
Genre History
ISBN 0971468605

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Lovers' Legends is a collection of homoerotic Greek myths restored from their primary sources. The collection also includes a new rendition of Lucian's Erotes. The volume is illustrated with ancient art.

Visionary Love

Visionary Love
Title Visionary Love PDF eBook
Author Mitch Walker
Publisher
Pages 132
Release 1980
Genre Religion
ISBN

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Queer Mythology

Queer Mythology
Title Queer Mythology PDF eBook
Author Guido A. Sanchez
Publisher Running Press Kids
Pages 150
Release 2024-10-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0762487216

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Spanning the globe and thousands of years, Queer Mythology highlights the legends and tales of LGBTQIA+ gods, heroes, spirits and more. Myths and legends tell our stories. They connect us and show us not only who we are, but also reflect the people during the time the stories were first told. And LGBTQIA+ people have been a part of every community since the dawn of storytelling. From Tu’er Shen, the Chinese rabbit god who protected those yearning to come out in an unaccepting world, to Ghede Nibo, the Haitian spirit who performed drag in the realm of the dead, the twenty myths told in this collection capture one irrefutable fact—even as labels, language, and definitions have changed, LGBTQIA+ people have always existed. Some of these myths are not widely known. Others are myths that you may think you know, but over time their inherent queerness has been erased. Queer Mythology offers fresh retellings, paired with beautiful illustrations, to give new life and celebrate the inspirational and resilient LGBTQIA+ community in some of humanity’s earliest tales.