The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

A remarkable document from a different age. Equal parts manifesto, creation myth, how-to memoir, and mirror. You, Little Brother and Sister, read this to learn your history.

Revolutionary literature for the queer soul 👏 👏 👏 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 👏 👏✨ ✨ ✨

The sense of queer belonging and community I felt while reading this felt like a much-needed hug. The art is beautiful and unique, the story is rooted in our real experiences. Felt a lot like healing.

I think the information is outdated and flawed. I’m a monogamous gay male and I don’t typically view cock as a lifeline, nor do I really respect guys who do. Don’t read this book if you are looking for Self respect. That said, I do think it’s an interesting examination of gay male and somewhat lgbtq history. It’s was ok.

So glad this is back in print. A gem from a different time that still resonates with certain faire king's.

A joyful look at queer life in a different time. Huge wisdom!

I adored this book. I took so many pictures of pages and paragraphs to send to other people. It's amazing and wonderful and bittersweet and strengthening to see how many goals have remained the same when it comes to dismantling the harmful systems that surround us. The way it made me feel so connected to the previous generation was sublime.

I found this book in my mentor's apt. when I was 19. He thought it was crap, sneered and said as much (in high flutin' language, too, since he was a professor in English), but in my reading of it, I found liberation. It is a book based on some thoughts rendered/filtered through Radical Faerie consciousness. It instructs the readers how how to be a more human, more whole person -- regardless of how patriarchy and other oppressive forces, even internalized ones... how to combat them and not allow the poisonous hetero-normative social conditioning make us the monsters it makes, well, of heterosexuals. A must for anyone seeking a third path... and if it speaks to you, find Radical Faeries in your neck of the woods.

ever read a book that fills you to the brim and feels like family and sees you the way you want to be seen, that's revolutionary and life changing and a salve to the pain of existence, shines light on the beauty of existence -- a book that makes you want to scream about it from rooftops and make sure everyone knows about it and buy 1,000 copies, 10,000 copies, so that everyone you love and care about, everyone struggling like you, everyone filled with despair and pain can read it too, but -- a book so personal that it must be shared hand-in-hand, a gripped and hugged and tear-stained copy handed down, gifted and given and shared privately, intimately, meaningfully, wreathed and garlanded in personal words and whispered hopes and dreams and salvations -- do you know that book? this is that book.

A useful look at part of America in the 1970s but no longer relevant to Britain of today. I am pleased that the word has been reclaimed. This book is a tribute to that word and lifestyle.

A remarkable document from a different age. Equal parts manifesto, creation myth, how-to memoir, and mirror. You, Little Brother and Sister, read this to learn your history.

Revolutionary literature for the queer soul 👏 👏 👏 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 👏 👏✨ ✨ ✨

The sense of queer belonging and community I felt while reading this felt like a much-needed hug. The art is beautiful and unique, the story is rooted in our real experiences. Felt a lot like healing.

I think the information is outdated and flawed. I’m a monogamous gay male and I don’t typically view cock as a lifeline, nor do I really respect guys who do. Don’t read this book if you are looking for Self respect. That said, I do think it’s an interesting examination of gay male and somewhat lgbtq history. It’s was ok.

So glad this is back in print. A gem from a different time that still resonates with certain faire king's.

A joyful look at queer life in a different time. Huge wisdom!

I adored this book. I took so many pictures of pages and paragraphs to send to other people. It's amazing and wonderful and bittersweet and strengthening to see how many goals have remained the same when it comes to dismantling the harmful systems that surround us. The way it made me feel so connected to the previous generation was sublime.

I found this book in my mentor's apt. when I was 19. He thought it was crap, sneered and said as much (in high flutin' language, too, since he was a professor in English), but in my reading of it, I found liberation. It is a book based on some thoughts rendered/filtered through Radical Faerie consciousness. It instructs the readers how how to be a more human, more whole person -- regardless of how patriarchy and other oppressive forces, even internalized ones... how to combat them and not allow the poisonous hetero-normative social conditioning make us the monsters it makes, well, of heterosexuals. A must for anyone seeking a third path... and if it speaks to you, find Radical Faeries in your neck of the woods.

ever read a book that fills you to the brim and feels like family and sees you the way you want to be seen, that's revolutionary and life changing and a salve to the pain of existence, shines light on the beauty of existence -- a book that makes you want to scream about it from rooftops and make sure everyone knows about it and buy 1,000 copies, 10,000 copies, so that everyone you love and care about, everyone struggling like you, everyone filled with despair and pain can read it too, but -- a book so personal that it must be shared hand-in-hand, a gripped and hugged and tear-stained copy handed down, gifted and given and shared privately, intimately, meaningfully, wreathed and garlanded in personal words and whispered hopes and dreams and salvations -- do you know that book? this is that book.

A useful look at part of America in the 1970s but no longer relevant to Britain of today. I am pleased that the word has been reclaimed. This book is a tribute to that word and lifestyle.