Gay spirit visions

The Fall Conference, the Spring Retreat and the Winter Meditation in addition to the monthly pot-luck dinners, web-site and triannual newsletter, "Visionary," are all used as the means in which to introduce mainstream gay men to alternative spiritualities.

The Faeries organized around a consensual structure that honors the individuals involved and gives consideration to all points of view. Gay Spirit Visions Fall Conference: What is mine to do? Harry Hay called together the first Radical Faerie Gathering there in The Faeries emphasized questioning social structure, honoring one's own individuality, and respecting the freedom and human equality of others.

Please join me for Gay Spirit Visions’ Spring Retreat gathering, Convergence: The Journey of Love, Sex, and Intimacy, on May, at The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center. Series II, Conference and Planning Materials, includes both vision and descriptive material.

Series IV, Photographs and Audio Visual, includes photographs and recordings of conference events in various formats. Today your visit to this web site is hosted by Melissa M. Finding Aid An online finding aid is available. 96 talking about this.

Most of the rituals are Neo-pagan in form but the content is as diverse as their members' personal spirituality. The experiences at the conference inspired a group to begin a series of annual spiritual retreats for gay men at Running Water Farm in North Carolina.

Gay Spirit Visions is a diverse spirit of gay and bisexual men of all spiritual paths. Over the years a few traditions began to form, but the conference, as well as other activities, remain open to new inspiration and ever changing creative process.

The Gay Spirit Visions Oral History Project is a component of the larger Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project. Series I, Gay,contains documents in both paper and electronic form, as well as Stories of our people: a journey book for men who love men by Andrew Ramer and Raven Wolfdancer.

With this need to find another location, the men organizing these gatherings saw this as an opportunity to design more organized and concise meetings. Span Dates: Bulk Dates: Volume: 4. In the past, even though the experience was spiritually powerful, the retreats were also long and disorganized.

An online finding aid is available. Most of the interviews, which have been conducted by Cal Gough and Randall Cumbaa, are recorded using audio and video equipment, although some may be available in audio form only. Harry Hay was invited to give the keynote address at the meeting, and author Andrew Ramer and poet Franklin Abbott also presented.

Series III, Financial,primarily relates to the conferences. Gay Spirit Visions Records primarily detail the planning, financing, and recording of retreats, and include correspondence, financial records, flyers, invitations, programs, audiovisual materials, and photographs dating from The collection is organized in four series.

We serve as a nurturing counterculture within the wider gay scene. By Running Water was being surrounded by development making it impractical to gather there. What is Mine to Do?: Polyspiritual Portals Into the New Age We are, as a community, “polyspiritual”—finding meaning, inspiration, and grounding in the rainbow of spiritual traditions, paths, and even secular philosophies.

Gay Spirit Visions is a diverse group of gay and bisexual men of all spiritual paths. We serve as a nurturing counterculture within.