QUEER STUDIES
White Crane Gay Spirituality Series
released by Lethe Press in coordination with
White Crane Institute
GAY SPIRITUALITY
Toby Johnson
Winner of a Lambda Award!
In this acclaimed title, author Toby Johnson explores how the rise of gay identity has become an important part of contemporary religious development. This dramatic transformation has resulted due to the perspective of gay men; their ability to step outside the assumptions and conventions of culture and see things from a different point of view. This book will reward readers seeking new insight into faith as well as culture, myth and traditions.
Visit the author's website! where you can also order an autographed copy.
ISBN 1-59021-022-0
Paperback, $16.95
Purchase this title at Amazon or through gay bookseller TLA Books
TWO FLUTES PLAYING
Andrew Ramer
Finally back in print!!
"We had many saints, many heroes, both female and male, but I want to speak here of the saints and heroes of the gay tribes. For this is a period of human history that has been lost through time, whose return is vitally needed. For you know the heroes of the other tribes. But of this small, sacred tribe, whose history has been obscured, you remember nothing." So tells acclaimed author Andrew Ramer in Two Flutes Playing. Within these pages can be found insight and wisdom. Ramer serves as a mythologist for gay men, providing evidence to the harmony of gender, love and sex. A new introduction by the author reveals why this book's timeless message has once more returned to print as the inaugural title in the White Crane Spirituality Series.
ISBN 1-59021-023-9
Paperback, $12.95
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GAY SPIRIT: Myth & Meaning
Mark Thompson
arguably the book that started the Gay Spirituality Movement
Publishers Weekly wrote: Cultural editor of the Advocate, Thompson here collects previously published articles and book excerpts from the magazine, each an attempt to define the status of gay men. In an introduction he distinguishes between homosexual (a form of sexuality) and gay: "A social identity and consciousness actively chosen." The text discusses the gay's role in politics, religion, culture, identity. Among the contributors are Judy Grahn, author of lesbian/feminist works; Malcolm Boyd, activist Episcopal priest; Harry Hay, a founder of the Mattachine Society; and writer William S. Burroughs, . . . [including] Geoff Mains's "Urban Aboriginals and the Celebration of Leather Magic," an approving, detailed description of sadomasochism.
ISBN 1-59021-024-7
Paperback, $19.95
The next book in the White Crane Spirituality series will be ALL: A James Broughton Reader, an anthology of writings (some previously unpublished) by gay wise man James Broughton, compiled by Joel Singer, edited by Jack Foley
