Witch gay
This story originally appeared in News Is Out.
Witch. We listen women called this all the second. Sometimes it’s meant as a substitute for the misogynist b word. But “witch” is not a benign slur to fling at women. The history of women organism called witches is grim. Demonizing, torture and killing of women — particularly lesbians or women thought to be lesbians — is inextricably tied to being targeted as a witch. Witchcraft and lesbianism are often linked and have been since the days of burning witches at the stake centuries ago.
For centuries, women have been accused of being witches — an accusation that usually accompanied being unmarried and/or having too many cats. Ohio senator JD Vance’s “childless cat ladies” claim during the election was all about his attempt to target Democrats as anti-family and too gay friendly. Vance included Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg with the “ladies,” even though Buttigieg is married with two children.
Vance stopped short of calling “childless cat ladies” “unnatural,” but the implication was explain. And this attack of childlessness has always been one attached to lesbians.
Back in 1992, Republican presidential candidate Rev. Pat
Being a Gay Witch
How did sexual orientation grow the focal point of your spiritual practice? What does it mean to be a male lover witch?
I wouldn't say that sexual orientation is the focal point of my spiritual perform . I think the experience of being human is. Being same-sex attracted is just an aspect of this life, this earthwalk. I think reconciling the fact that I am gay and a spiritual person -- coming from a time, place and tradition that often sees those two as mutually exclusive -- forced me to really examine organism a gay man in a different way.
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.
Being a gay witch is reclaiming the spirit of traditions that predate more dominant religions and reaffirm the sacredness in the even out between genders,
The Beyond the Binary exhibition brings together the diverse perspectives of LGBTQ+ researchers, artists and community activists to create space for self-representation in the museum.
Beyond the Binary researcher Mara Gold provides more communication about witchcraft and the LGBTIQ+ community.
The witch in bottle
There is a long history of witchcraft and the LGBTIQ+ group, both in terms of queer culture and faith as well as the way LGBTIQ+ people include been persecuted throughout history. One of the most famous objects in the museum, this glass flask reputed to contain a witch is an marvelous starting point to reveal some of these stories.
Oppression and persecution
This bottle represents the oppression and persecution of those who were outside ‘acceptable’ binaries. Some of these so-called witch bottles were used to ward away spells or disease but others were used specifically to harm supposed witches. The victim of the witch would include urine in the bottle, which would stop the witch from urinating until the spell was removed, causing some serious pain. Interestingly, many techniques used to ward away witches involved the use of spells. The witch apparent
What is a same-sex attracted witch? A little intro to International Gay Witch Day
A homosexual witch named Storm Faerywolf writes in 2000, “In most Wiccan traditions of modern witchcraft there is a mighty emphasis on sexual polarity as a model for magickal/ritual working. Simply stated, this is the belief that magickal energy is generated most strongly (and perhaps only) by a male and female working partnership, a concept that was popularized by the Gardnerian tradition and has been passed down in some form to the vast majority of modern witchcraft traditions being practiced today. Even in traditions where this polarity is seen to be internalized (i.e. the plan that we each contain an inner male and female which strive for balance regardless of our physical gender) we find that, ultimately, the model we have adopted is still a heterosexist one: that of polarized or complimentary forces creature identified as male and female, thereby enshrining this model as the template for all valid relationships whether they be romantic, magickal, or otherwise. For Queers this can be a threatening practice.”
It can be dangerous. It is merely another instance where queers are subjugated. I will be c