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Loving Men: A Gay Sex Guide and Consciousness Book by Mitch
Walker, Bill Warrick (Illustrator)
Men Loving Men is a
complete sex guide, with direct illustrated explanations for all
forms of gay lovemaking: sucking, anal intercourse, masturbation,
sex toys. An up-to-date section on gay health/safe sex practices
is also included in this 2nd edition of a gay classic.
"A warm, wonderful, tender book written by
and for gay men. The book's emphasis is on sharing, growing,
discovering roots, confronting fears, becoming whole and real. --
Gay Psychologists' Newsletter.
"A fine manual in tone and feeling . . it
conveys a sense of being at peace with sex and sexuality." --
Siecus Reports.
 Gay
Soul : Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit and Nature With Sixteen
Writers, Healers, Teachers and Visionaries by Mark
Thompson
From longtime Advocate editor Mark
Thompson -- black-and-white photographs and searching, provocative
interviews with sixteen renowned gay elders whose vision and
leadership illuminate the spiritual dimension of gay
lives.
Interviews with: James Broughton, Paul
Monette, Richard A. Isay, Andrew Harvey, Andrew Ramer, Harry Hay,
Will Roscoe, Clyde Hall, James M. Saslow, Ram Dass, Joseph Kramer,
Guy Baldwin, Ed Steinbrecher, Robert H. Hopcke, Malcolm Boyd, and
Mitch Walker.
From the Walker interview:
"I believe gayness is the immutable center
of an inner truth that is harbored in the genes. It's not
some kind of error in the heterosexual ordering. Our sexual
orientation is a genetic part of our component makeup as much as
breeding is in breeders. It's a fundamental principle of
organizing human personality, and it's not to be taken for
granted. How could someone like Michel Foucault come along
and misinterpret that fact by looking at sexual orientation as a
social construction? What a stupid idea. It's like
getting a present and waxing on and on about the box it came in, a
world of boxes, without ever getting to the gift itself..."
-- Mitch Walker, Gay Soul
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Mitch Walker is the author of Men
Loving Men, A Gay Sex Guide and Consciousness Book (Gay
Sunshine Press, 1977/1993) and Visionary
Love: A Spirit Book of Gay Mythology and Transmutational Faerie
(Treeroots Press, 1980.) He was co-founder with Harry
Hay and don Kilhefner of the Radical Faerie movement in 1979. He
was the first writer to propose a gay-centered Jungian psychology
in his 1975 Master's thesis, Gay Depth Psychology. Since
then he has continued to explore gay archetypal truths as a
homosexual shamanic psychologist in his writings, practice and a
growing community of people engaged in gay-centered inner work.
More information is available at TreeRoots,
an organization devoted to increasing knowledge about
gay-centered inner work and what it means to be a gay person.
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By Mitch Walker, whitecranejournal.com
Excerpt:
I wish to honor the archetype of
Gay-Centeredness in men. This is an inborn pattern of meaning that
focuses on homosexuality and its unfolding experience. It is that
innate Intelligence which fires homosexual lust, desire and
romance as key psychological facts of life around which a growing
boy and youth can come to know himself and come into his own as
what we today would call a gay identified man. Gay identity,
according to the constructionist viewpoint currently dominating
gay intellectuals, is purely a recent situational creation of
Western sociopolitical forces. They say that even the experience
of a consistent, central homosexual desire and romance in a person
is constructed that way due primarily to outside forces. They
point to people and cultures where they say sexual identity and
desire seem different or fluid...
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By Mitch Walker, whitecranejournal.com
Excerpt:
There are gay men today trying to explore and
fulfill an authentic living homosexual tradition, a tradition
going back before Plato which will likewise stretch into the
distant future. It is the archetypal tradition of gay-centered
Spirit, that is, honoring and practicing the self-realization of
the "god-ness" within gayness itself, its sacred
progenitor, its royal mysterium. It is this Gay Spirit that
creates homosexual love as a magnetic center of inner value,
compelling our sexual orientation and identity.
Out of this Spirit comes a sensibility and a
procreativity of stunning importance not only to us but for all
humanity. Not only to participate in but also to wake up to this
fecund Gay Spirit self-consciously, to seek its knowledge and
wisdom in ever more purposeful and actualizing ways, is to join
with our mystical forebears to fulfill the revolutionary promise
of our gayness and thereby help usher humanity through its current
crisis to a more humane and mature form of social life...
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By Mitch Walker, whitecranejournal.com
Excerpt:
Not only is the Faerie movement a significant
part of contemporary gay life, but it is a uniquely influential
one. It is the first indigenous spiritual tradition created and
sustained by the gay male community in modern times. By
"indigenous" I mean gay-centered and gay-engendered, in
contrast to the various gay synagogues, churches, covens etc. In
the latter groups, gayness is incidental or additional to the
tradition espoused, while in the former it is central and causal.
Radical Faeries celebrate and explore the Gay Spirit, which is
itself the source of spiritual existence, wisdom and initiation.
Because of its indigenous, gay-centered nature, the Radical Faerie
movement pioneers a new seriousness about gayness, its depth and
potential, thereby heralding a new stage in the meaning of Gay
Liberation...
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