21/02/2023
The Queer Spirit website is geared towards this August’s celebration of new age, neo-pagan and esoteric LGBTQIA+ spirituality, but there is much more to enjoy on it, including several essays and blog posts to explore. This week, a new post excerpts from the 1996 book by Bernadette Brooten, examining ancient historical texts to explore love between women in antiquity. She says “This collection of ancient sources, never before examined together in one study, establishes the necessity for studying love between women on its own, rather than as a minor subcategory of male homoeroticism.... the terms tribas and frictrix, which imply an erotic identity; and the early Christian grouping together of homoerotic males and females, challenge David Halperin's view that the concept of homosexuality did not exist until the nineteenth century. As with other studies on women, examining material relating to sexual love between women in antiquity alters our picture of history as a whole.” For lots of resources to explore LGBTQIA+ spirituality, history and culture, visit our website for a link to Queer Spirit’s blog page.
