Research Catalog

Title

Queer spirits : a gay men's myth book / Will Roscoe.

Publication

Boston : Beacon Press, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Roscoe, Will.

Description

xxi, 346 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Homosexuality in literature
• Archetypes in literature
• Male homosexuality
• Homosexuality > Religious aspects
• Homosexuality > Mythology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Stories for boys -- The golden key / Peter Cashorali -- Two pretty men -- The basket and the bow -- A temple of the holy ghost / Flannery O'Connor -- Behind the hill / Samuel M. Steward -- First contacts / Jean Cocteau, Clyde Hall(M. Owlfeather) -- Rites of passage -- What one dreams, that will be -- The ugly duckling / Hans Christian Andersen -- I am holy -- Soft man -- The gallus and the lion / Antipater of Sidon -- Gay ways: the path of the two-spirit -- They have been given certain powers / John Fire (Lame Deer) -- A very great doctor -- I alone keep up life --
• I'm going to have you -- There was great rejoicing -- His appearance is brilliant (Asushunamir) -- Hurrah for the Mahu! / George Biddle -- Wearing rings on my ears nad bangles on my wrists (Arjuna) -- Strap of my bra, hem of my pants -- Why Lizard's head is always moving up and down -- Son of the Sun(Begochidiin) -- A vast hermaphrodite / William Blake -- The divine twins -- Becoming one instead of two -- None like him (Kepakailiula and Kaunalewa) -- He is an equal to you (Gilgamesh and Enkidu) -- All ills grow better (Baldr and Loki) -- When you piss, I shall piss as well --
• That moon which the sky ne'er saw -- The way of initiation -- Gold is put into our eyes -- Muscle bound / Christopher Morgan -- Snatched away (Zeus and Ganymede) -- He fell in love when the mountain rose was in bloom / Ihara Saikaku -- And he remained with him that night (Jesus) -- You will now perhaps be less angry (Kolhamana) -- The ecstatic body -- The power of the Hijras -- He ceased to be what he was (Attis) -- Blue light -- Their beastly customs and inordinate desires -- Dionysus at the disco -- Our spiritual neitherness -- The circle of loving companions --
• Don't look back -- Thou shalt ever be with me (Apollo and Hyacinthus) -- Sweet to me above all sweetness -- His mind became healthy (Dekanawida and Hayonhwatha) -- The moth and the star / James Thurber -- Future spirit -- Sun and flesh / Arthur Rimbaud.

Call Number

JFE 95-14371

ISBN

0807079383

LCCN

94030970

OCLC

31011737

Title

Queer spirits : a gay men's myth book / Will Roscoe.

Imprint

Boston : Beacon Press, c1995.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Roscoe, Will.

Research Call Number

JFE 95-14371