Gay spirit : myth and meaning / [edited by] Mark Thompson.

Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. [303]-307.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-310).

Part I. Our place in the world: culture and identity -- Part II. The world within ourselves: voices and visions -- Part III. A world of our making: myth and meaning.

Flaming without burning: some of the roles of gay people in society / Judy Grahn -- Reform or revolution? the challenge of creating a gay sensibility / Michael Bronski -- What price gay nationalism? / Dennis Altman -- Thoughts on a gay state / William S. Burroughs -- Sex and the politics of identity: an interview with Michel Foucault / Bob Gallagher and Alexander Wilson -- Double reflections: Isherwood and Bachardy on art, love and faith / Mark Thompson -- Children of paradise: a brief history of queens / Mark Thompson -- Living the tradition: gay American Indians / Will Roscoe -- Telling a lie for Christ? / Malcolm Boyd -- We, the fairy headhunters / Tobias Schneebaum -- Urban aboriginals and the celebration of leather magic / Geoff Mains -- Gay people at a critical crossroad: assimilation or affirmation? / Don Kilhefner -- Seven glimpses of Walt Whitman / William Moritz -- Selected insights / Edward Carpenter -- I should have been listening: a memory of Gerald Heard / Jim Kepner -- A future for the isophyl ; What is religion? / Gerald Heard -- Harry Hay: a voice from the past, a vision for the future / Mark Thompson -- In the service of ecstasy: an interview with James Broughton / Mark Thompson -- Visionary love: the magickal gay spirit-power / Mitch Walker -- Gay soul making: coming out inside: a group interview -- The truth come out / Aaron Shurin -- This gay tribe: a brief history of fairies / Mark Thompson -- A separate people whose time has come / Harry Hay -- The evolution of a fairie: notes toward a new definition of Gay / Mark Thompson.