Resources

Note: This is a HUGE list of resources. We've created handy links to the categories.
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Spiritual Traditions

Gay Spirituality Websites

Gay Spirituality Page

Created by Bob Barzan, this site offers referrals to many interesting pages and opportunities. The page is courtesy of Brent Hunter who runs The Park web site. Visit the entire park. Barzan also has a web page devoted to Practice Advice about Leaving the Priesthood.

Gatherings / Workshops

Easton Mountain
Gayspiritcamp.com. A retreat center in upstate New York managed by gay therapist John Stasio. Site includes upcoming schedule of events.

Mid-Atlantic Men's Gathering
Twenty year old gathering of Queer and Queer-friendly men in the woods of Pennsylvania. Spring Gathering is over Memorial Day Weekend; Fall Gatherette in September.

Deeper Dating
"Dating events with a heart." A creative way of meeting other folks with your interest. (New York Area)

Growing Healthy - Men in Touch
Men in Touch web site with information about Light Touch Retreats in the Great Northwest led by Sequoia Thom Lundy. Breathwork, yoga, wholesome food, tai chi, meditation, ritual, and massage.

Gay Spirit Visions
Gay Spirit Visions, from the organizers of the annual gathering of the same name, based in Atlanta. This is a beautiful website. Called "a wonderful cyber oasis for like-minded men looking for heart-mind-body connections." From here you can join an e-mail discussion list.

Manifest Love: Finding new ways to be with and for each other.
Manifest Love offers trainings around the country in gay men's spirituality and ethics. The Founders declare their basic beliefs: 1) We aspire to create a more affectionate and loving gay world, that better manifests our most humane values in public and private. 2) We reject a queer culture that says we must compete, that attitude always serves us better than affection, that we need endanger one another, or that we cannot publicly embrace our most loving natures. 3) We affirm and support a robust sexual culture, as we know it's not all of who we are. 4) We know change is possible. As gay men helped build our culture, we can rebuild it. We know taking concrete actions can help us do better with and for each other. 5) We can give ourselves a world that better honors the true values of our hearts. That is the world we want for ourselves, and for each other. We think it is time we gave ourselves the gay lives we truly want.

Institute for Authentic Process Healing
Gay therapists, Michael Picucci, PhD, MAC and Elias Guerrero, M.D., MPA conduct retreats on Sex, Spirit and Intimacy in the Northeast.

Camp In the Woods
"In the woods" is a gay, clothing optional, member's only campground, owned and operated by avid gay campers who understand the needs of today's outdoorsman. To our customer's, we provide a safe haven to meet other's, relax and get back to nature.

Gay Men's Medicine Circle (GMMC)
Based in West Hollywood, California, and dedicated to the well-being of gay men and the welfare of the gay community throughout Southern California. GMMC sees gay people as our tribe and the Los Angeles gay community as our village and encourages and supports the gay-centered spiritual growth of each other and gay men throughout the community. By "gay-centered" we mean that our purpose and activities start from an inner center that says being gay is important and substantial and meaningful; has a significant evolutionary and social purpose; and provides us the essential inner vision that guides and shapes our behavior, our lives and our psycho spiritual growth. A variety of workshops presented with names like: Gay Shamanism, Realizing Your Mission, Sacred Prince, Wayfarers of Wierdness, Father Hunger, Tibetan Buddhism

Revolutionary Wisdom
Revolutionary Wisdom is dedicated to catalyzing a revolution of the human spirit for the evolution of all humanity.
The website of White Crane contributor, Christian de la Huerta and Marcus Thorndike. They have a growing number of programs and activities, including groups, workshops, and retreats; writing and publishing books and articles; "mystical activism"; website development; public speaking; other projects (possible documentary in the works); and through engaged compassion with ourselves and our network of personal, professional and organizational relationships. Christian de la Huerta is the author of the award-winning book, Coming Out Spiritually.

Body Electric School
Look here for a schedule of events, nationwide, sponsored by the Body Electric School.

Gay Spirit Culture Project: Shifting Gay Culture by Supporting Inner Transformation
The Gay Spirit Culture Project is a network of groups shifting consciousness in the LGBTQ community and raising visibility of transformational experiences. Through spiritual & social action and by being with each other on deeper levels, this work is changing norms in the LGBTQ world toward a positive, caring, authentic, safe, respectful community that supports each individual in being himself or herself and valuing her or his uniqueness, strengths and inner wisdom.

Inner Coach, Outer Power
This site announces workshops in dreamwork and life mastery (held in Sedona and in Hawaii) by Keith Varnum, also info about Varnum's books.

Webzines & Blogs

Ashe-Prem
A freely distributed web-based ezine of experimental spirituality, with significant gay content. Ashé is an Afro-Caribbean word for spirit or life-force. It describes the energy which inhabits all people, animals, plants and objects. Ashé is a singular force which is everywhere differentiated into the myth of duality. Prem is the Sanskrit word for Divine Love. It is Love that is nonspecific, undirected and undiferentiating.

Gay Spirituality & Culture
Incisive writing by Joe Perez on Gay Spirituality and Current Events.

WildFaith.com
The personal homepage of Darrell Grizzle, a large but friendly Dancing Bear. Explorations in Creation Spirituality, healing, and non-violent activism.

Eldermystic's Whispers
A spiritual gay man's website with interesting material.

Spirituality and Sexuality
A Magazine of Sexuality and Spirituality, non-gay but very open to all forms of sexuality. More specifically sexual than White Crane Journal, but in very much the same spirit.

Cosmic Revelations
The webpage of White Crane contributor Greg Kasperek. Very interesting story of Greg's personal experience. Link of page about his books on metaphysics and spiritual cosmology.

Communities & Churches

The Hermitage
A queer intentional community; a center for gay creativity; a retreat center for contemplation and meditation; a working farm in Central Pennsylvania.

Edward Carpenter Community United Kingdom
Community of gay men committed to caring, trusting, personal growth, sharing, creativity and other principles and intentions aimed at nurturing 'community', and which runs residential events for gay men.

Berdache Brotherhood
Gay Intentional Community in Southern Colorado. Looking for prospective members.

Nasalam
Nasalam is a polysexual, polyamorous community in Missouri. Nasalam publishes a quarterly journal.

QueerNet
Hundreds of email-based communities for the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered, HIV/AIDS, and leather/S&M communities. QueerNet is a project of Online Policy Group, Inc., a non-profit organizationdedicated to online policy research, outreach, and action on issues such as access, privacy, defamation, and the digital divide.

Gay Buddhist Fellowship
An article by Roger Corless in the San Francisco Gay Buddhist Fellowship newsletter Aug-Sept 2002 explores the idea of expandingHarry Hay's idea of subject-subject consciousness to apply to non-duality of gay/straight, male/female differentiation.

Science of Spirituality Healing Ministry
Retreat facility HIDDEN HOLLOW is located in Hawkins county in NE TN. A non-denominational organization whose focus and intention is on healing and empowering our gay natures. Contact Jerry Soder at (423) 272-5752 or manhealer@hotmail.com for more info, directions and our brochure. Walk in Beauty.

Unitarian/Universalists
Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion -- that is, a religion that keeps an open mind to the religious questions people have struggled with in all times and places. UUs believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in ourselves. UUs are a "non-creedal" religion: they do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed. The Unitarian/Universalist church was the first denomination to accept gays and lesbians in ministry and to fight for gay rights (back in the 1960s!)

Writers & Teachers

Toby Johnson.com
Website of White Crane's former publisher and now contributing editor. Author of numerous books on Gay Spirituality.

International Gay & Lesbian Review

Andrew Harvey
Prolific writer and gay spokesperson for the mystical way has a website with references to his writings, reviews of his books, even a bookstore to order.

John R. Stowe
Author of Gay Spirit Warrior: An Empowerment Workbook for Men who Love Men and a frequent contributor to White Crane.

Christopher Penczak
A practicing Witch and the author of Gay Witchcraft & City Magick, Urban Rituals, Spells and Shamanism.

John McNeill
Former Jesuit priest is one of the most respected gay theologians and self-sacrificing spiritual activist.

Fire in the Lake
The website of a gay spiritual writer, Ko Imani. Links to a yahoo group. Imani writes heartfelt and insightful --and very appealing--columns on a variety of gay spiritual and gay political subjects. He is author of the forthcoming book Shirt of Flame: The Secret Gay Art of War.

Loraine Hutchins
Expert on bisexuality, sacred & radical sex, and inter-related oppressions issues with a book on queer feminist sacred sexuality in the works. Some excerpts are available on the site.

Mel White
Author of Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay And Christian In America and founder of Soulforce.

Resources for the Urban Mystic
Darren John Main's wonderful and inspiring site about yoga, meditation. Includes information about his books and teaching. He is the author of Also information about his new book Yoga & the Path of the Urban Mystic, The Findhorn Book of Meditation and Spiritual Journey's Along the Yellow Brick Road.

Will Roscoe
Author of Jesus & the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love, The Zuni Man-Woman, Queer Spirits, and Changing Ones, San Francisco-based Will Roscoe has been called the "father of gay spirituality." The site contains information on the Native American two-spirit ("berdache") tradition, cross-cultural sexual and gender diversity, third and fourth genders, gay spirituality, Applied Meditation, and publications by Will Roscoe. Roscoe was interviewed White Crane in the Winter 2005 issue.

Arthur Evans
Veteran gay activist and writer, author of Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture and most recently of The Critique of Patriarchal Reason. Evans is a San Francisco character and an important actor in the development of modern gay liberation. This site is about his book Critique of Patriarchal Reason.

Transcendence
an online book by Kurt Kawold, a non-gay man, but with a good sense of what spirituality should be about and strong sense of the error of religious persecution of gay people. His book is based on a beautiful mystical vision:

I was in a place with a gathering of spirits. I felt the greatest peace, tranquility and ecstasy. I felt a rapture that was beyond a person's imagination. I felt as if I was a part of God. I was mentally communicating and in sync with everyone; all the prophets of the bible, many historical people whom I had read about, many deceased acquaintances and relatives. There was no dominant force, no forceful leader. I somehow knew who everyone was. Every thought was interacted with the whole community. I had no questions; it seemed as if everything was revealed and crystal clear. I saw the universe stretched out before us like a vast expanse with spirits engaged in mental interaction like master craftsmen contemplating the creation of a new frontier.

Gay Warrior: Transforming Betrayal into Wisdom
A book by Jim Fickey and Gary Grimm, gay psychologists in Santa Fe, NM. Jungian archetypal psychology applied to gay men's experience of transforming self perception -- and incidentally, saving the world

Safely Through the Fire
A beautiful novel by Clair Anderson. A fictionalized account of her brother's death to AIDS. Includes a lovely spirituality of life. The link will bring up the manuscript for reading online.

Poets & Poetry

Jeffery Beam
The website of accomplished gay poet (and White Crane contributor) Jeffrey Beam. Interesting spiritual connections.

The Walt Whitman Home Page
And here's the page web of the Good Gray Poet himself

Arts & Culture

John Steczynski
An artist and teacher at Boston College, and frequent contributor to White Crane, Steczynski does wonderful pen & ink drawings with spiritual themes.

Tim Leary
Here's the new web page of White Crane Journal contributor Tim Leary, a San Francisco-based gay-activist/ spiritual-activist artist. There are samples of his works.

Wil Biggers
A stained glass artist in South Carolina, Wil Biggers produces beautiful religious images. Interesting articles and links.

Harvey Milk Institute
The San Francisco gay and lesbian community "free university" and lecture series.

Stevee Postman
San Francisco artist Stevee Postman has produced a wonderful Tarot deck. At the website are sample cards, and ordering info.

Adam Ben Hur
An artist who creates lovely erotic drawings with a mythic twist.

Robert Lentz Icons
Robert Lentz is an artist who creates marvelous "icons" in the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox churches. He does specifically gay images. Here are Harvey Milk and St. Aelred of Rievaulx. His company, Natural Bridges, produces greeting cards and prints of his work. Look for "Christ the Bridegroom" -- it's Jesus and St. John.

Michael Titus Parkes
Gay performance artist, Michael Parkes', style of performance bridges the gap between what we normally think of as theatre and life itself, by transposing fiction with factual storytelling from his own life. Merged with soulful songs from his new live CD, "Charity", he tells stories that are planned but unrehearsed in a free-flowing format. Seen through the eyes of a gay man in his early 30's, Parkes' retold histories eventually touch upon the universal themes of love, aging, and loss.

Fine Art for Men
A site retailing artistically done nudes and other painting, photographs, sculptures, etc appealing to gay men's tastes.

Dr Richardson
Phil Richardson is an M.D. turned spiritual-seeker and artist. Here's a link to his home page.

John Douglas
Artwork, influenced by my interests in Jung, Buddhism, Sufism and the Enneagram.

Chad Witt Online Biography
Memorial website for a Zen artist.

World History of Male Love
Here is a new gay spirituality site, focusing on history and on various cultures. Beautiful historical art pieces.

Heron Dance Magazine
Interesting articles and beautiful artwork. The editor/creator (Rod Maclver) is very gay friendly... a searcher.

Music

Mark Weigle
Amazing gay musician, singer songwriter. Weigle has released a number of cds of his music. His music was reviewed in White Crane.

Fred Small
Here's a page about the wonderful folk singer, now Unitarian-Univeralist minister, who wrote the gay anthem, popularized by the Flirtations, called "Everything Possible."

Parenting/Gay Families

OurWorldToo.com
Helping gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered parents and their children cope with the issues that surround them at work, in schools, and in the community. The site offers books and clothing geared toward alternative families in addition to providing up-to-date news articles, things to do with the kids, and discussions of legal issues. Free newsletter and a discussion board where gay parents can share ideas, advice, and frustrations.

ProudParenting.com
Designed to unite gay & lesbian parents and families worldwide, ProudParenting.com offers news and information related to a wide variety of parenting issues, including adoption, surrogacy and society's acceptance of children with gay & lesbian parents. ProudParenting.com is also a resource that provides quick access to web links, as well as an online directory of gay & lesbian parenting-related websites worldwide.

Sex & Spirit

EroSpirit
One of the best sources on the web for resources on Gay Sex teaching and understanding. Erospirit is the web page for Joseph Kramer, founder of the Body Electric School and creator of the Celebrating the Body Erotic trainings across the country
Through Erospirit, Kramer is now producing audio and video tapes concerning a variety of topics having to do with gay men's spirituality and sexuality.

Bodywork For Men
A nice site with links to many other sites including Men's Resorts, Bodybuilder sites, spiritual sites. The focus of the site is body work of all sorts.

Mantantra
Mantantra is a website aimed at gay men interested in sexual spirituality and tantra. Its content deals primarily with the book "The ManTantra Letters" -- a correspondence over distance and time about sexual and spiritual awakenings. The authors mix their beliefs and experiences of Eastern philosophies and modern Western culture as they deal with their spiritual sexuality frankly and candidly.

Mindful Masturbation for Men
An e-group discussion about spiritual sexuality operated by regular White Crane contributor Bruce Grether. Very good wisdom here in the spirit of Joseph Kramer. [Note: This group is in an age-restricted Area of Yahoo! Groups, so you'll have to sign in to Yahoo to access.]

Nightcharm
Topics include eroticism and spirituality, legendary Blue Note Records designer Reid Miles, and the titillating vagaries of being an Internet pornographer. Bob Vickery -- erotica author and Buddhist -- considers how "casual" sex between men can be a movement towards greater interconnectedness rather than a loveless vice. "Rough Trade, Daddy, Golden Boy, Sailor, Jock, Blue Collar Stud....Casual Sex is all about the hunt for something bigger than ourselves." Read "Applying Buddhist Dharma to Casual Sex" Also Don Shewey on gay men's pornography.

Gay Tantra
Introduction to the Erotic Massage services of Serge in Toronto. An attractive & thoughtfully written site.

Gay Tantra, Los Angeles
This site announces classes in Tantric based sexuality and sapirituality by Bruce Anderson, a second level Nagapranayama Initiate and member of the Kriya Jyoti Society.

Gay Tantric Masturbation site

Gay Tantra / Ashram West
This site is manged by William Schindler, a traditionally trained Tantric meditator and scholar. He is author of Gay Tantra, a book on how gay-identified persons can apply the teaching of traditional Hindu Tantra to construct a viable spiritual practice. Schindler approaches from a scholarly and well-researched perspective a topic that has become popularized into what is really a different phenomenon. His analyses are important for understanding what Tantra really is.
Gay Tantra was reviewed in WCJ in Issue #50 William Schindler is also author of a spiritual novel called Blood of the Goddess.

Man 2 Man Movement
White Crane contributor Bill Weintraub is an advocate of what he calls cock rubbing and challenges the tyranny by which gay culture promotes anal fucking. This site contains many first person accounts agreeing with Bill's observations. (This is very interesting material.)

Studio 925: The Sacred Phallus
Phallic symbolism, its myths, cultural customs, magic power , beliefs, rites and ceremonies. Exclusive phallus carved amulets: honoring adoration and empowerment of the male.

Therapy/Spiritual Direction

The Institute for Authentic Process Healing
Gay therapists, Michael Picucci, PhD, MAC and Elias Guerrero, M.D., MPA conduct retreats on Sex, Spirit and Intimacy in the Northeast.

Ken Page, CSW
New York based gay therapist does spiritual retreats.

BodyMindSoul
A site managed by Atlanta therapist and Body Electric trainer, John Ballew. Good links and a special page of Resources for Youth. Also a free email newsletter by Ballew. Info about John Ballew's practice and teaching schedule.

Dale Rhodes, M.S., M.A. Web Page
Rhodes, a Gay Spiritual Director in Portland, writes: Spiritual Direction is a process through which we become more deeply attuned to our relationship with the Divine. Through conversation with a spiritual mentor in an atmosphere of trust, a person comes to a deeper awareness of the presence and movement of God in everyday life.

Guidance to Change your Life
Site of Paul Chirumbolo, a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist in Los Angeles who works with gay people. Interesting material on myth and meaning.

SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS

Buddhism

Buddhist Gay Fellowship
Buddhism, of course, is a religious tradition based on the kind of "achieving perspective" on experience that many gay people are naturally gifted with--or thrown into willy-nilly--by virtue of not fitting into the assumptions of mainstream culture. The Gay Buddhist Fellowship in San Francisco publishes an interesting newsletter. An article by Roger Corless in the San Francisco Gay Buddhist Fellowship newsletter Aug-Sept 2002 explores the idea of expandingHarry Hay's idea of subject-subject consciousness to apply to non-duality of gay/straight, male/female differentiation.

Diamond Metta - Lesbian and Gay Buddhist Society
New York City-based gay and lesbian Buddhist meditation group offering talks and discussions about Buddhist teachings.

The Gay Buddhist Open Forum
An open, international, minimally moderated e-mail group (listserv) for the discussion of Buddhist teachings and practice for gay men. GBOF is not officially affiliated with any one teacher Buddhist practice community. As an online discussion forum, the only requirements for the group are mindful and mutually respectful speech for the benefit of all. Presently, 1000+ men from around the world -- with an interest in Buddhism or now actively practicing -- engage each other regularly on a wide range of topics.
Messages to GBOF are posted without the intercession of a moderator and may be viewed through direct e-mail, daily digest summaries, or by visits to the web page of the group.

Paganism

Gay Witch.net
A site by a young gay man, lots of links to witchcraft, wiccan and pagan sites. Nice graphics.

Cosmic Tribe Tarot
San Francisco artist Stevee Postman has produced a wonderful Tarot deck. At the website are sample cards, And ordering info.

Christopher Penczak
A practicing Witch and the author of Gay Witchcraft & City Magick, Urban Rituals, Spells and Shamanism.

The PriapeanTradition
The Priapean Tradition, An Intellectual and Spiritual exploration of Neo-pagan mysteries, incorporating the traditions of Dionysus, Apollo, Min, Attis, Amon, Shiva, Hermes, syncretized in the worship of Priapus.

A Gay Pagan Primer

Radical Faeries

RadFae.org
Clearinghouse for all thing Radical Faerie.

RFD Magazine The magazine of the Radical Faerie development.

The Faerie List
Here's a link to a message board/reflector for gay men interested in the Radical Faeries.

Denver Radical Faeries

Cosmic Tribe Tarot
San Francisco artist Stevee Postman has produced a wonderful Tarot deck. At the website are sample cards, And ordering info.

The Hermitage
A queer intentional community; a center for gay creativity; a retreat center for contemplation and meditation; a working farm in Central Pennsylvania.

Green Faerie Grove
The Faeries of Columbus OH

Queer Arts

Balance Janeson
Pagan Monk, Performance Artist, BodyPlayer, Sacred Intimate, Balance Janeson is a member of the Zuni Mountain Collective.

The Erotic Earthy Man
A yahoo site, run by a faerie, posting pictures of men from gatherings, sanctuaries, and individuals (exercising prudence, of course) to demonstrate the erotic beauty of men who don't necessarily fit the requirements of the mainstream gay media. A refreshing escape from buffed youth.

Christianity
Catholic - Protestant - Bible

About Spirituality For Gays And Lesbians And Everyone Else Who Fall Between The Cracks by Justin McBride
A site with articles and links about gay spirituality, spiritual mentoring, Biblical meaning. Attractive. Many contributors are Canadian.

Soulforce
Founded by Mel White, doing non-violent confrontation against the religious right and gay-hostile Christian denominations.

Chi Rho Connection
Chi Rho Press, an LGBT religious/spiritual publishing house, publishes the Chi Rho Connection, an electronic newsletter

Gay Christians

Welcoming Church Movements

Interweave Unitarian Universalists for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns
Unitarian Universalist Office of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender Concerns
Reconciling Ministries Network (United Methodist)
United Church of Christ
Reconciling in Christ Program (Lutheran)
More Light Presbyterians (Presbyterian Church USA)
Welcoming & Affirming Baptists (ABC/USA)
Open & Affirming Ministries (Disciples of Christ)
Affirming Congregation Programme (United Church of Canada)
Brethren/Mennonite Council for Lesbian and Gay Concerns
Dignity (Roman Catholic)

Broadway United Methodist Church
A welcoming, pro-gay Methodist congregation in Chicago, whose minister, Rev Greg Dell, was put on trial for his pro-gay stance (he survived the trial and is still the minister there).

Gay and Lesbian Spiritual Resources
A very nice page with bibliographies and links to a variety of G/L resources. Mostly Christian, but not exclusively.

University of Creation Spirituality
Run by Fr. Matthew Fox, the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, CA offers workshops, degree programs, and special events. Fox is very sympathetic with the plight of gay people, especially with regard to institutionalized religion.

HeartStrong
Provide truthful information and support to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and allied persons who have attended, are attending, employed by, or associated with religious educational institutions through support, education, and advocacy. HeartStrong, Inc., is a non-sectarian outreach established to provide educational resources, compassion and understanding to GLBT and allied persons adversely affected by the influence of religious educational institutions.

Church of the Naked Shepherd
A "Gay Apertarian church." The word “Apertarian” comes from the Latin verb “apertario” and means “to lay bare.” Their slogan: “Ecce Ipse Apud Deum Apertario” means: “Behold! I lay myself bare before the Lord.” One of the mandates of The Church of The Naked Shepherd is that of education.

New Ways Ministry (Catholic)
Farther Robert Nugent and Sister Jeanine Grammick have been tireless workers within the Catholic Church helping gay Catholics recognize themselves.

GayGospels
Sermons (homilies) for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders for each Sunday of the year.

John McNeill
Former Jesuit priest is one of the most respected gay theologians and self-sacrificing spiritual activist.

Whosoever
An Online Magazine for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Christians

Leaving the Priesthood
Website by White Crane founder and former Jesuit priest Bob Barzan.

Rainbow Christian
A site by Christie, a Christian homosexual, with interesting articles on The Naturalness of Homosexuality, Rules about Hair Length and Head Coverings in the Bible, the versions of the Bible. A page of links to other, mostly specifically Christian, spirituality sites and articles about gay psychological functioning.

Rev. Stephen De Matteis
Rev. Stephen De Matteis, Ph.D is a Christian minister with a New Age bent and an interest in healing and reconciliation. He has several websites. His church in Orlando, FL is called Center of Light. Sacred Sensual Self is oriented to spirituality. Luminaria Productions announces his trainings and workshops. Project Lullaby is a program for adults healing from childhood abuse.

Rainbow Sash Movement
Political action by Gay Catholics calling for the Church to wake up.

MCC
Metropolitan Community Church is a "gay Protestant denomination." For anyone with ties to Christianity, MCC is a real alternative to the mainstream denominations of America.

Bible

Steps to Recovery from Bible Abuse
One of the issues is gay spirituality is transcending the religions of our upbringing. These can have powerful effects in adult life. Misrepresented quotes from the Bible may need to be dealt with.

The AramaicWords of Jesus
The site also includes Sufi myticism, Kabbalah and other Semitic mystical traditions.

Sodom Revisited
Article by John Shelby Spong that offers explanations as to the Old Testament's prohibitions against homosexuality, explaining that most of these prohibitions are not factually presented by the Evangelical movement.

Homosexuality and The Bible
An interesting article by Walter Wink, Professor of Biblical Interpretation at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City. This is posted on Mel White's webpage. You can link to White's page and SoulForce from here.

'Born Eunuchs'
Very interesting site, that provides a lot of historical background on the topic of homosexuality. Contains Faris Malik's academic thesis arguing that what the Bible called Eunuchs we'd today call gay men. Good discussion of the quote from Jesus about Eunuchs for the kingdom.

Christian Science

Emergence International
The national gay and lesbian Christian Science Group.

New York City Gay and Lesbian Christian Science Group

Two Spirits / Indigenous

Anthropology: The Berdache
Colgate University Thesis (high honors) : Berdache 'Two spirit' people greatly respected Past/Out: The Berdache. By David Bianco. Several other links to information about the berdache tradition.

Two Spirit Voices
The National Native American AIDS Prevention web site has links to Two Spirit stories and traditions.

Songs of the People
Oyate Ta Olowan, is a public radio documentary series that takes you to the homelands of 26 different tribes. Features a documentary "Does Mother Earth Have Aids?" a look at the AIDS epidemic from a native metaphysical perspective.

Will Roscoe
Author of THE ZUNI MAN-WOMAN, QUEER SPIRITS, and CHANGING ONES, San Francisco-based Will Roscoe has been called the "father of gay spirituality." The site contains information on the Native American two-spirit ("berdache") tradition, cross-cultural sexual and gender diversity, third and fourth genders, gay spirituality, Applied Meditation, and publications by Will Roscoe.

Homosexual/transgendered animals and indigenous knowledge
Article with some interesting facts about biology, mythology, and Two Spirit folklore.

Tribal Ways
Tribal Ways is a piercing shop run by a gay couple, both of whom identify as Two-Spirit Persons in Native American culture. They also have a gay bookstore with an emphasis on spiritual materials.

Hinduism

GALVA 108: The Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association
This site has been provided to serve everyone involved with or interested in Hindu spirituality, a gay version of the Krishna Consciousness movement.

Shiva Quest
Here's a site for Hindu Saivism (devotion to Shiva) recommended by a gay Shaivite monk. His personal website is aumnamahshivaya.org

Gay Tantra
Introduction to the Erotic Massage services of Serge in Toronto. An attractive & thoughtfully written site.

Gay Tantra, Los Angeles
This site announces classes in Tantric based sexuality and spirituality by Bruce Anderson, a second level Nagapranayama Initiate and member of the Kriya Jyoti Society.

Gay Tantric Masturbation site

Kashi Rainbow Page
Guru Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati is a tireless teacher and powerful proponent for her gay chelas (students) and an out spoken voice in the fight against AIDS. The Kashi Ashram has recently added a simple Kashi Rainbow page on the Kashi website.

Astrology

Psychological Astrology
Robert Samson's Psychological Astrology approaches the time-honored science of astrology with modern psychological and spiritual insights

Other Traditions / New Traditions

SECULAR WHOLENESS
Although not specifically addressing the unique needs of gay men, the purpose of SECULAR WHOLENESS is to support the spiritual quest of anyone who is marginalized or repelled by conventional religion -- so gays and lesbians are certainly included in the target audience.

Orisha Consciousness Movement
This African Yoruba religion recognizes deities with gay specific legends.

Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell was not a gay man -- though he lived most of his adult life in an apartment on Waverly Place overlooking Sheridan Square in NY's gay West Village (and, one can imagine, may have watched the Stonewall Riots from his aerie high above the street). He and his wife, the famous dancer and Broadway choreographer Jean Erdman, had no children. Both of them remained free from the constraints of "normal" domesticity in order to focus on their cultural contribution to the evolution of consciousness -- a trait they share with most gay men and lesbians.

Campbell's vision of myth and religion as metaphor for the dynamics of consciousness and personality supports a religious and spiritual attitude that gay people can readily embrace. The pages of White Crane Journal regularly present glimpses into this vision.

White Crane contributing editor, Toby Johnson, was extraordinarily fortunate to have come to know Campbell personally and to carry on a ten year correspondence with him, so that he became the "wise old man" of Toby's spiritual journey.

Joseph Campbell & Marija Gimbutas Library
The library is located at Pacifica Graduate Institute near Santa Barbara, CA. In the library are Joseph Campbell's personal collection of books (with his marginal notes) and memorabilia collected over a lifetime. Also the collections and notes of the important anthropologist -- and champion of women's spiritualities -- Marija Gimbutas. Membership in the Library supports transformation of human religious consciousness.

The Nuhati Community
A new human rights movement espousing a very old tradition based in Egyptian myth. www.TheLivingNuhati.Org is the hot spot gay and lesbian spiritualists have been waiting for- an orthodox religious tradition offering its subscribers equal opportunities in the priesthood, monastic community, and temple community regardless of their sexual orientation or out status. The Founder is an openly gay man, Ptahmassu Uaa, reverently known on his website as His Holiness.

Lotus and Rose
Lotus and Rose offers a refreshingly different approach to spirituality. It looks at the spiritual life from both Eastern and Western perspectives and enjoys every view, much like a vast garden of flowers, full of the boundless variety of the Universe. Lotus and Rose encourages everyone to find meaning in life.

Androgyne Newsletter
Saadaya hosts an Internet newsletter and discussion group about Gender and spirituality, myth and mystical consciousness. This link will connect to his homepage. Also check out joining the list.

Voice of Thoth
A site which deals with Gay Spirituality from a Yoruba perspective. It also features some gay themed metaphysical art.

Yoga / Meditation

Resources for the Urban Mystic
Darren John Main's wonderful and inspiring site about yoga, meditation. Includes information about his books and teaching.

Be Here Now
A lovely site that runs a meditation on being conscious in the present. It doesn't try to sell anything or convince you to do anything other than be in bliss in the moment. (Not gay, but certainly meaningful)

Visualization News
Visualization News is a monthly newletter which deals with the use of visualized imagery to enhance your Spiritual practice.

Health

Aware Talk Radio
The website includes audio broadcasts of the radio show plus audio/video news updates, audio interviews, video programs and brief text articles. AWARE clears the air about today's critical health and well-being concerns including addictions, women's health, breast cancer, HIV disease, depression, hepatitis C, diabetes, gay/lesbian health, chronic fatigue syndrome, sexual health, personal empowerment and more.

Healing Natural Oils
Natural essential oils treatments This is linked to a site operated by a chiropractor with links to many natural and alternative healing sites.

Good Weeds.com
A collection of herbal remedies. This is the work of John Stowe, a frequent contributor to White Crane.

HIV/AIDS

THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF ILLNESS, Healing Through AIDS
and other books by New Age writer and WCJ contributor William Kaufman.

Engagement - Politics - Giving

NGLTF - The Task Force
Founded in 1973, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation (the Task Force) was the first national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights and advocacy organization and remains the movement's leading voice for freedom, justice, and equality.

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
"Making the Mountain Move: An Activist's Guide to How Human Rights Mechanisms Can Work for You" offers theoretical and practical advice along with details on use of United Nations, Inter-American, European and African human-rights-protections systems.

People for the American Way
Broad-based Civil Liberties group that started in the early 1980s as a response to the Religious Right. It is now a multi-issue organization dedicated to progressive and pro-gay government policies.

Soulforce
Founded by Mel White, doing non-violent confrontation against the religious right and gay-hostile Christian denominations.

True Majority
Started by Ben of Ben and Jerry's. A place dedicated to making a difference. Not gay, but certainly aligned with our issues and hopes.

LGBT Giving
A comprehensive guide to gay and lesbian philanthropic foundations. Also provides the option of donating online to any one of 15 LGBT Community Foundations across North America. (editor's note: Spirituality in action is giving money away!)

Equal Partners In Faith
A multi-racial national network of religious leaders and people of faith committed to equality and diversity to affirm and defend the equality of all people, regardless of religion, race, ability, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.

EarthWatch
Though not gay in any meaningful sense, EarthWatch is a marvelous organization that responds to one of the principal issues of gay spirituality -- ecological awareness and eco-spiritualities. EarthWatch is a non-profit organization that links volunteer adventurers with scientific and conservation projects worldwide. That is, they organize adventure vacations in the form of useful work research, doing things you'd never be able to arrange for yourself.

Hate Speech Website
If you ever needed proof that anti-gay hate is alive and well, here's a Web site for you. Recently updated hate speech Web site that contains over 200 documented examples of Religious Right anti-gay speech. Included are quotes from Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, and more.

Gay Marriage

Celebrant USA Foundation
A nonprofit foundation, the Celebrant USA Foundation, trains Celebrants to perform all types of ceremonies and rituals, including weddings, lesbian and gay commitment ceremonies, ceremonies for babies and children, and funerals.

Rainbow Wedding Network
Categories include everything from before the event (jewelry, massage, parties) to during the ceremony then on to the honeymoon (travel agents, pet sitters, B&B) and life after the ceremony (realtors, insurance and financial agents, landscapers, housecleaning services).

RainbowLaw.com
Legitimize your relationship and protect your rights -- log onto rainbowlaw.com

GayWeddings.com
Gay wedding resources. Help with producing the ceremony and designing the honeymoon.

Travel

Spirit Journeys
Here the website of a gay travel organizer. They put together wonderful trips to sacred sites worldwide for gay men and lesbians as well as organizing retreats and spiritual get togethers locally.

Purple Roofs
A gay travel and accommodations site.

CETLALIC Alternative Spanish Language School

COMING OUT: THE GAY (MEN'S) EXPERIENCE IN MEXICO
For all gay men interested in learning about the situation of the gay community in Mexico through the study of the language and cultural exchange. The program will teach participants about the history of the gay movement in Mexico and Latin America. Participants will share coming out stories, learn about Mexican culture and gender roles in contemporary Mexico and gain an understanding of the cultural and political context of gay identity in Mexico. A 3 week program that includes roundtable discussions, guest speakers (artists, activists and community leaders), field trips, museum visits, videos, encounters with local community groups, activities of the Gay Cultural Month in Mexico City and the 24th Gay Pride March in Mexico City. The program includes a homestay with a Mexican gay man or couple, which makes this experience more personal and profound.

Students are evaluated and placed at the appropriate level of Spanish language instruction with a maximum of five students in each class.

Behind The Mask
A non-profit website magazine on gay and lesbian affairs in Africa. This website magazine celebrates the rise of an African lesbian and gay movement. In the past ten years almost hundred lesbian and gay organisations have been launched in Africa. Often working under extremely difficult circumstances and operating under highly cryptical names this movement has a representation in at least 15 countries in all African regions.

History

Spiritual Abuse Recovery Help
Lee Ellis specializes in helping gay people recover a healthy and positive sense of their religiousness in spite of their religious upbringing. Ellis is also a modern folk singer; he has recently released a beautiful CD of his songs called Michael. Ellis participated with Rev. Mel White in his 1999 meeting with Jerry Falwell. One of Ellis' songs is called "Stranger at the Gate," a biblical phrase he shares with White who titled his autobiography (the story of his transformation from Jerry Falwell's ghost writer and agonizingly closeted homosexual to proud gay man and gay Christian) also Stranger at the Gate.

Edward Carpenter
Brilliant website with writings by the amazing utopian gay man who lived for much of his life in a large rural house amongst a group of his friends and lovers. E M Forster described him as 'a poet, a prose writer, a mystic, a manual labourer, an anti-vivisectionist, an art critic, etcetera.' The grand Uranian influenced countless generations in loving themselves as men who love men. If you don't recognize the name, visit this site and have your soul nourished.

CELEBRATION 2005: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Celebrate the 180th birthday anniversary of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, the first known person to speak out publicly in defense of same-sex rights more than 130 years ago.

World History of Male Love
Here is a new gay spirituality site, focusing on history and on various cultures.

IN THE ARMS OF AFRICA: THE LIFE OF COLIN M. TURNBULL
by Roy Richard Grinker. both a gay love story and a biography of one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers and Buddhist Monks (much of the book deals with spirituality, the seer Sri Anandamayi Ma, and Tibetan Buddhism). Click for info on Colin Turnbull).

Connections / Listserves, etc

Deeper Dating
"Dating events with a heart." A creative way of meeting other folks with your interest. (New York Area)

Chiron Rising
A Magazine and Website for mature gay seniors.

G-rated Guys
A website and message board for gay men looking for friends and lovers, designed not to look typically pornographic and sexualized.

Gay Mystics Discussion Board (Yahoo)
Mystics are the true sourcerers of the world, carrying the sacred flame of love, acceptance and celestial participation in their hearts and minds. No matter the path one follows, to be a true mystic means to be able to find divine beauty anywhere and to notice the absolute truth. Here is a place where gay hermits, wizards, monks, magicians, bards, faeries, wanderers, tantrics, gypsies, et al can gather and share stories, musings, philosophies, beliefs and practices.

Rural gays
Rural guys, gay personals, chat, resources

Queer Spirituality California

Queer Spirituality International

Queer Spirituality San Francisco

Queer Spirituality USA

Gay-Spiritual-Living
A place to share... A place to care... Teachings and Testimonies to awaken the gay community that God loves you just as you are. This is a Yahoo egroup. You can sign up for emails from the Gay-Spiritual-Living reflector or sign up to read messages online.

The Future of Gay Ecstasy
Delphiforums site on spiritual ecstasy, healthy gay sex, and pleasure between men.

The Coming Secret Child of Horus Yahoo-egroup networking gays who are walking a spiritual path, and practicing magick, meditation, and mysticism.

Other Resources

Chiron Rising
A Magazine and Website for mature gay seniors.

International Gay & Lesbian Review

"The Wockner Wire"
Incredibly informative news postings by gay journalist Rex Wockner. Includes years of archived stories.

Religious Tolerance.org
A website about religious tolerance, the positive benefits of religion in society AND the negative effects religion has so often had because people don't really understand the nature of religion and spirit. Many interesting articles -- including discussion of religious homophobia.

Rainbow Law
Saint Petersburg based company whose mission is to provide online, inexpensive legal documents that are comprehensive, useful and of high quality. The company is owned and operated by Carrie Stone and Elisia Ross, her life partner. Carrie, an attorney, created these documents for their relationship and wanted to share them with the Lesbian and Gay community.

September 11, 2001: Gay Victims and Heroes
A page about the events beginning the Terrorist War focusing on gay people caught in the disaster.

Gay Spirit Ring
There are quite a number of web rings related to gay spirituality. Clicking here will take you to the intro page for Webring. Select Religion, then in the next list select Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual. You'll be given the chance to log in and join any rings that interest you.

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