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Welcome you all to r/gaywitch, our very own space for gay witches to share, learn, and grow together. Whether you’re here to deepen your practice, seek life advice, or find like-minded friends, you’ve come to the right place. The incredibly affirming and welcoming gay couple behind the counter meant the world to a young Colson, and the first person she came out to was co-owner Ray Watkins who welcomed her with open arms.

Historically associated with power, seduction, old age, and otherness, witchcraft was traditionally a space reserved for women, but as the LGBTQIA+ movement continues to gain traction, more and. Modern Gay witchcraft takes inspiration from a variety of historical sources. Arthur Evans probably said it best in his book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture, "There is no such thing as the authoritative Gay history, but as many Gay histories can exist as there are Gay visions" (Evans, 3).

The late s-early ’70s was a heady, transformational time for both gay and pagan activism — Leo Martello was a gay witch who served causes: he was a founding member of the American Gay. Whatever spiritual practice I looked at in my studies, I would always seek to know what the religion thought about and how they treated women and homosexuals.

That was a big yardstick for me, since both groups have been traditionally persecuted by more mainstream religions. You write in your book "the coming out experience in modern society is akin to a magickal or shamanic initiation. I became a witch before I came out as being gay. All my friends and family were aware of me being a witch, and the magical experiences gave me the strength and courage to face what I thought was more difficult, coming out of the closet.

Without the broom closet, I don't know if I would have had the strength to come out. When you come out of the closet [as a homosexual], you are changed.

First you come out to yourself, and really consciously acknowledge the fact that you are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered. Once you wrap your own mind around it, you are different. Then you tell your family and friends, you can't go back in. You let the genie out, and can't put it back into the bottle. The way you relate to the world changes completely. Your range of possibilities changes completely.

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You can envision things for your life that you never could truly see or feel when in the closet. Even if you dream of a healthy, happy, open relationship, when in the closet, it doesn't seem real. When you are out, a light shines and lets you be closer to your true self. Spiritual initiations bring you to your true self as well. With magick, once you have experienced a true, inner initiation and come through the door successfully, you realize your magick is real, and you can make things happen, envisioning possibilities that you never dreamed of before.

The rituals and spirit journeys are life changing. Often they can be traumatic, but they change your worldview, and you cannot be the person you were again. You say that some gays are turned off by the heterosexual imagery of god and goddess that dominates neo-paganism -- the emphasis on the union between opposite sexes and fertility rites and so forth. How do you, as a gay witch, envision the divine? The divine is spirit, and as such, is beyond male and female, yet incorporates both.

Witches believe the divine in immanent in all things, all nature, the stars and all people. Neo-paganism initially focused on heterosexual union because the roots of our reconstruction are based in fertility cults - fertility of the tribe and fertility of the crops. No gay witch is going to dispute the role of fertility. We all got here through reproduction. But a gay witch will recognize that everyone has male and female, god and goddess energy in themselves.

All men have feminine energy. All women have masculine energy. GLBT folk have a different blend of these energies when compared to the traditional heterosexual roles. It makes them perfect for magical world, because they can access whatever current of energy that is needed. You suggest in your introduction that gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people were honored in ancient cultures, and considered holy.