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Queer Spirit • History • Culture • Politics

Will Roscoe	Two Spirits	Art and Culture
Who is Will Roscoe	The Two-Spirit/Berdache Tradition	Vortex: A Journal of New Vision
Publications	Lozen: Apache Medicine Woman and Warrior (.ppt — 2.3 MB)	Vortex 1 (.pdf — 20.1mb)
Lectures	Two-Spirit Slideshow	Vortex 2 (.pdf — 11.4mb)
Books	Kuilix, Warrior Woman	The Zuni Man-Woman: A Documentary Drama
Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love	Queering Christianity	Applied Meditation
The Zuni Man-Woman	The Jesus Bowl: New Evidence of Early Christian Magic	Affirmations
Changing Ones	Christianity’s Other Betrayal: The Gospel of Judas (.pdf)	Audio/Video
Queer Spirits	History	A Harry Hay Christmas
Radically Gay	Who Killed Frank Little?: The Murder of a Wobbly Organizer	Winckelmann in Italy: Slide-lecture by Bradley Rose
Islamic Homosexualities	The Indian Midwife (.pdf — 1.4 MB)	Comments at the LA premiere of Two-Spirits (coming)
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands	Harm Reduction: Tonne Serah and Vera Severa	The Legacy of Harvey Milk: Interviews with Harry Britt (coming)
Articles & Essays	DanceSafe and Harm Reduction in the SF Club Scene	Bradley Rose
How I Became a Queen in the Empire of Gender	Drop…Dead: The DJ Murders—A Politic Murder Mystery	A Radical Fairy's Seedbed
Cultural Amnesia and the Case for Lesbian/Gay Studies (.pdf)	Got Bitch?: Vera Severa’s Top Ten+ Lists	Links
Priests of the Goddess: Gender Transgression in Ancient Religion		Hot Links

For many years I've been on an quest for the answers to three questions central to the meaning of being queer.

Who are we?

Where did we come from?

What are we for?

The answers I've found are in the books and articles I have written, as well as the various slide-lectures I've given around the country. I hope to use this website as well to share what I've learned on this odyssey.

Here you'll find information about my publications, along with excerpts and samples of work-in-progress. There's background on the Native American two-spirit tradition, the primary subject of my research, and its parallels around the world, along with samplings of my work on queer mythology, culture, and history.

FLASH! FLASH!...Click on the NEW link below for recently uploaded selections of new and old works. There's an illustrated lecture on a famous Apache warrior woman and my first research project into the unsolved murder of labor organizer Frank Little in 1917. I've also created a page devoted to Vortex, an early, landmark 'zine that Bradley Rose and I published between 1980 and 1982. You can view full copy scans of issues 1 and 2, which include my first-hand account of the White Night Riots of 1979, interviews with Harry Hay and John Burnside, portfolios from artists Eva Lake and Camille O'Grady, and much more. Finally, if you've read Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love, you'll want to check out the link to my article on the recently discovered "Jesus bowl," which provides compelling, new evidence for my reconstruction of queer mystical traditions in early Christianity.

COMING SOON!!! I've recently completed a series of oral history interviews with Harry Britt, Harvey Milk's successor to the San Francisco Board of supervisors. Harry has had a remarkable career as a gay activist and elected official. His insights challenge many of the myths that have grown up around Harvey Milk's life and politics and offer much needed correction to the Milk film. I plan to upload podcast excerpts in the near future, so check back soon.

I will be updating this site on a regular basis, so visit me often! You can leave comments in my guest book or e-mail me. Feel free to link my site to yours and tell me about any sites I can link to—but please don't "mirror" or reproduce my pages on your site without permission.

In queer spirits,