What's A Radical Faery, you ask.
I have several answers, myself, to this question: and one of my favorite things about our community is that we'd each answer that question differently. Ask 10 RFs the question, and get at least a dozen answers.
Here are some of my favorites:
- Real people like the characters in a Fellini movie, but nice.
- Some of the ones your mom warned you about, but we won't bite unless asked real nice.
- Queer Hippie
- Queer Pagan
- Those for whom loving as we do, in concious, self constructed and non-mainstream ways, is a spiritual gift that informs how we walk our walk and dance our dance.
- Radical from the dual meanings of political radical,
- a la 70s Radical faggot movement and other leftist and anarchist insprirations
- Radical as "root", returning the our tradtional roles as the spritual people and healers posited by Arthur Evans in his early writings (Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture) and Harry Hay.
- Faery with the aspects of
- Reclaiming the eptithet many of us were called for gay/queer/homo.
- Referencing the connection many have to the northern European 'little people', the magical ones of forest and field.
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These are but a few meanings...what are yours?
