Number 153 Spring 2013 $9.95 Harry Hay Conference Faeries & GivingIssue 154 / Summer 2013 QUEER ART Submission Deadline: April 21, 2013 www.rfdmag.org/upload As we enter the high season of Summer, with its PRIDE commemorations and gatherings galore, we in the RFD Collective want to celebrate the many FABULOUS artists in our community. So we are asking for you, dear artists & lovers of the Arts, to send in images that capture the nature of your work or of those whose work you love. How has being Qweer influenced your work, and how has your werq led you in your own lifepath, through process as well as personal insight. We’d love to make this a SPLASHY pictorial replete with imagery as well as the words that convey your experience as an artist or as someone profoundly changed by something someone else has shown you in exposing their inner selves. Who has influenced you? How has ART contributed to this community—especially in its rich ritual life? Where are we going & how is Art leading the way in ways often presaging the written word? How do visuals communicate with and without words? Let’s celebrate Summer and our rich artistic heritage! Photograph by artboydancing RFD 153 Spring 2013 1 Radishes for Dinner Vol 39 No 3 #153 Spring 2013 As RFD glides slowly toward our fortieth year, we’re finding ourselves thankful for the gifts which have come to the RFD community through the years. Since RFD’s move to New England in 2009, we’ve found so many giving people donating their energy. We’ve also been thankful for the donations which subscribers include in their renewal envelopes. It’s increased our meager cash flow to consider projects to deal with the back issues which we have on hand. One of these projects is looking to sell / donate back issues to archives and libraries which already have holdings of RFD in their collections. We’ll have more to say about this on our website in the coming months. Meanwhile, this issue’s focus on giving brought in a variety of poignant articles and poems as well as clarion call to ask our community to consider ways of collectivizing our wealth to tackle larger problems. We also felt it was important to dedicate part of this issue to the recent Harry Hay conference held in New York City in September 2012. The organizers and some of the presenters were kind enough to provide our readers with a sampling of the festivities and dialogue. We also want to celebrate the release of two films which delve into the lives of people near and dear to RFD and it’s readers: Sister Soami, Sister Missionary P. Delight and James Broughton. We’ll cover Mr. Broughton as his centenary nears in our Fall issue. —The RFD Collective Between the Lines2 RFD 153 Spring 2013 RFD is a reader-written journal for gay people which focuses on country living and encourages alternative lifestyles. We foster community building and network- ing, explore the diverse expressions of our sexuality, care for the environment, Radical Faerie consciousness, and nature-centered spirituality, and share experiences of our lives. RFD is produced by volunteers. We welcome your participation. The business and general production are coordinated by a collective. Features and entire issues are prepared by different groups in various places. RFD (ISSN# 0149-709X) is published quarterly for $25 a year by RFD Press, P.O. Box 302, Hadley MA 01035-0302. Postmaster: Send address changes to RFD, P.O. Box 302, Hadley MA 01035-0302 Non-profit tax exempt #62- 1723644, a function of RFD Press with office of registra- tion at 231 Ten Penny Rd., Woodbury, TN 37190. RFD Cover Price: $9.95. A regular subscription is the least expensive way to receive it four times a year. Copyright © 2012 RFD Press. The records required by Title 18 U.S.D. Section 2257 and associated with respect to this magazine (and all graphic material associated therewith on which this label appears) are kept by the custodian of records at the following location: RFD Press, 85 N Main St, Ste 200, White River Junction, VT 05001. Mail for our Brothers Behind Bars project should be sent to P.O. Box 68, Liberty TN 37095. On the Covers Front : “starman” by artboydancing Back : Collage by artboydancing Inside Front: Photograph by artboydancing Inside Back : Courtesy Kent State Archives Production Managing Editor: Bambi Gauthier Guest Editors: Joey Cain & Covelo Art Director: Matt Bucy Editor: Paul Wirhun Editor: Eric Linton Editor: Jason Schneider Prison Pages Editor: Myrlin Submission Deadlines Summer–April 21, 2013 Fall–July 21, 2013 See inside covers for themes and specifics. Photograph by Gary Plouff For advertising, subscriptions, back issues and other information visit www.rfdmag.org Artists in this Issue Gary Plouff ..................................2 Willi Cole....................................4 Joey Cain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–9 Artboydancing.................13, 16, 32, 35, 57 Stewart Stout ...............................20 Cory Peeke ..........................23, 38, 42 Chris Gagliardi.......................26, 28–30 Conrad.....................................46 Chris D. Lallman............................47 Mark Hufstetler.............................50 RFD 153 Spring 2013 3 CONTENTS Letters & Announcements ....................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Harry Hay Conference Harry Hay Conference Coverage ................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Radically Gay: The Life and Visionary Legacy of Harry Hay Conference —A Quick Overview ........................Joey Cain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Radical Faeries and the Subversion of Identity. . . . . Jason Baumann .................10 The Fool Speaks the Truth: The Creation of Queer Archetypes in the Radical Faerie Community ...................Husk ..........................15 Occupying Faerie Tribe: Exploring the Numinous Tension Between Sacred Space and Historical Reality ..................Endora .........................21 A Roll in the Hay, Saturday, September 29, 2012 The LGBT Center, NYC .....................Robert Croonquist ..............27 Giving Radical Faeries and Money .....................Hammer .......................31 To Give? Or To Receive? .......................Robin Hartman .................37 Offering Sexual Service ........................Dylan Norton ...................37 Giving is Living ...............................Rosemary for Remembrance. . . . . . 39 Gifts from the Dirt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nadja Bederven .................43 Film Big Joy! The Adventures of James Broughton ......Stephen SIlha / Eric Slade ........44 Joy! Portrait of a Nun ..........................Joe Balass ......................45 Poetry Lying in This Bed ..............................Mateo Olson ...................47 Interview: Yolo Akili ...........................Franklin Abbott .................48 Grandfather Rock .............................Jason Roush ....................51 Ezekiel at the Brook ............................Jason Roush ....................54 Poems ........................................Jeff Crandall ....................55 Cayenne and ginger ............................v ..............................56 Reviews, Interviews & Columns Nick Field ....................................Mercury Aquarius. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Review: Gay Press, Gay Power ..................Bill Glover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Remembrance: Dhandi .......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Brothers Behind Bars ..........................Myrlin .........................604 RFD 153 Spring 2013 LETTERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Maypole at Short Mountain 2008. Photo by Willie Cole. Bali Faeries We are a new Faerie group cur- rently forming in Bali, Indonesia. We’ve already had one successful gathering here and planning the next one later in 2013 Contact Info: balifaeries@hot- mail.com BIG JOY: The Adventures of James Broughton! World premiere and upcoming showings announced! Big Joy Screenings: South by Southwest World Premiere! March 9, 10, 13th, 2013 Hong Kong International Film Festival March 25, 27, 2013 For more info: http://www.bigjoy. org RFD 153 Spring 2013 5 GATHERINGS AROUND THE WORLD New Zealand Faerie Gathering North Island NZ Mar 21–24 Folleterre Water & Land Project France April 14–24 Billy Club May Day Gathering No. CA Apr 25–28 Gay Spirit Visions Spring, The Mountain, Highlands NC Apr 26–28 Beltane at Wolf Creek Sanctuary OR Apr 26–May 2 Beltane at Folleterre France April 26–May 3 Beltane at Short Mountain Sanctuary TN April 26–May 5 Folleterre Gardening Week France May 11–18 British Columbia Radical Faerie Camp Squamish BC Canada May 18–23 Walt Whitman Faerie Camp Destiny Grafton VT May 24–27 Generate Gathering Saratoga Springs near Ukiah CA May 24–30 Longhouse Gathering Redmond WA May 24–27 Sex Magick 169 Workshop Wolf Creek Sanctuary OR Jun 1–8 Family Gathering Faerie Camp Destiny Grafton VT June 14–16 Folleterre Gender Splendour Gathering France Jun 22–30 Spirit Gathering Kawashaway MN Jul 1–6 Billy Club 4th of July Gathering No. CA Jul 2–7 Spiritual Gathering of Radical Faeries Wolf Creek Sanctuary OR Jul 3–10 Black Leather Wings No. CA Jul 18–25 Sex Magick Workshop Folleterre France Jul 20–27 Lammas Faerie Camp Destiny Grafton VT July 27–August 4 Folleterre Community Week France Jul 29–Aug 2 Folleterre Great Circle France Aug 3–4 Silver Jubilee Lammas Kawashaway MN Aug 3–12 Folleterre Summer Gathering France Aug 5–14 Summer Gathering Breitenbush OR Aug 14–18 Austrian Faerie Gathering Hochkönig Austria Aug 17–27 Blue Heron Gathering Upstate NY Aug 26–Sept 2 Billy Club Labor Day Gathering No. CA Aug 29–Sept 2 Cmen West Coast Gathering Malibu CA Aug 30–Sept 8 Fall Foliage Faerie Camp Destiny Grafton VT October 11–14 Lumberjacks and Lumberjanes Gathering at Folleterre France Oct 20–27 Billy Club Halloween Gathering No. CA Oct 24–27 Sex Magick 269 Workshop Saratoga Springs No. CA Nov 16–23 Sex Magick 169 Workshop Loon Lake BC Canada Nov Date to be announced (check faeriesexmagic.org) Folks interested in finding more info should check out www.radfae.org’s website for full details. RFD 153 Spring 2013 7 S hortly after Harry Hay’s passing in 2002, his extended Caregivers Circle along with his dear companion John Burnside met to explore ways to continue Harry’s legacy - a legacy that consisted of his ideas and theorizing, organizing activism and vi- sion. As part of a multi-part plan we agreed to spon- sor an academic conference, along with funding Sex Magick Workshops and the long term preservation of Hay related video footage. We were fully aware of how Harry and his ideas had been summarily dis- missed by theories then dominating the discourse of Queer studies and the academy. Our hope for such a conference was to re-introduce Harry Hay back into the academic world while exploring the multiple aspects of LGBT experience and being that Harry lived and pioneered. After looking around at several Gay/Queer studies departments we decided to partner with the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York(CUNY). Their com- mitment to both academic pursuits and community engagement and activism clearly distinguished them from other departments and programs, Queer or otherwise, that we looked at. I started meeting with CLAGS in 2009 but eventually a team of planners emerged that included myself in San Francisco and Robert Croonquest in New York representing the Harry Hay Centennial Committee and, represent- ing CLAGS, their Board Chair, author and historian Daniel Hurewitz and their Executive Director Jim Wilson. In late 2011 we issued the following Call for Papers and Proposals: In honor of the 100th anniversary of Harry Hay’s birth, CLAGS and the Harry Hay Centennial Committee will sponsor a four day long conference exploring Hay’s life and ideas and the multiple facets of LGBT life that Harry Hay himself pioneered. Harry Hay’s life and his impact on LGBT history and culture were extraordinary, and the range of his activities was terrifically diverse. In the 1930s and ‘40s, his involvement in progressive politics, avant-garde art, and the Communist Party all shaped and influenced his formulation of the idea that LGBT people were a distinct “cultural minority” who needed to become conscious of themselves as a people and organize for their own liberation. With that insight, he co-founded the Mattachine Society in the 1950s and helped launch the modern LGBT liberation movement. He was an organizer of the first Radical Faerie gathering in 1979 and remained an active participant and inspirational figure in LGBT movements until his death in 2002. In addition, as a gay activist Hay committed himself to a larger progressive agenda, working in the anti-war move- ment, on behalf of Native Peoples, and within Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition. As an intellectual, Hay devoted himself to anthropological and historical re- search about the origins and meaning of LGBT lives, social roles and consciousness. His research focused particular energy on two-spirit people among Native Americans and matrilineal cultures. Given this rich array of interests, the conference organizers seek to gather scholars, public intellectu- als, activists, students, and artists who will take inspiration from Hay’s life and ideas in order to think together about several strands of LGBT living. In particular, the conference will explore four central themes inspired by and reflective of Hay’s life and Radically Gay: The Life and Visionary Legacy of Harry Hay Conference—A Quick Overview By Joey Cain Photographs by Joey Cain; Mark Thompson speaks (above right)Next >