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Many practices can be personalized to fit the individual.
Witchcraft also brings a lot of freedom for practitioners. And every orgy or sexual ritual becomes a queer orgy or gay/bisexual ritual. The paranoia that washed over Salem Village was inspired by hatred and discrimination. Through his work, Gala Witchcraft has developed a thriving international presence both online and in local communities around the world.
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When Christopher Penczak was introduced to Witchcraft, he found a spiritual path that hononred and embraced his homosexuality.
“Witchcraft has greatly helped me grow into my sexuality and gender identity and it helps give me strength to be as open and as loud as I am,” says V Moore, a first-year theater studies major at Kent State and a member of the Black Squirrel Witchcraft Society. As with every form of moral panic and mass psychosis, many of the people targeted invariably deviated from mainstream sensibilities in some way.
Other religions, such as Christianity, may see someone’s gender or sexual identity as sinful, but the witchcraft society embraces it.
In 17th-century Scotland, a bisexual woman named Maud Galt was accused of sexual misconduct by a maid in her husband’s employ with whom she had an affair. Some were simply people unable to fight back, such as the elderly, the infirm, and the mentally ill. The first organized witch-hunt began in Switzerland in 1428, and over the course of eight years, led to 367 people — mostly male peasants — tortured and subsequently burned alive (though a few were beheaded).
By reconnecting Gay men to their ancestral role as magical workers, Gala aims to give Gay men back a sense of pride and purpose, which is why Casey works tirelessly to empower Gay male witches to reclaim their history and restore their rightful place as magical workers. As of 2021, pagans rank as the single most LGBT-affirming faith group in the US.
That’s all good news for the developed world, but when we travel outside its confines, the landscape sometimes resembles a troubling time warp.
In many parts of Africa, for example, we see echoes of the European witch-hunts of yore. Some spells, it seems, are difficult to break.
In the final analysis, it’s very clear that most of today’s witchy subcultures are quite proudly queer.
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Gay men were meant to be witches.
The most widely-known instance of witchcraft is the Salem Witch Trials, which began in 1692. Activist scholars like Arthur Evans in his 1978 book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture made influential but thinly sourced and ultimately discredited contributions to the modern perception that historical witchcraft was intertwined with LGBT folks.
Some were midwives and healers, as anything resembling medicine seemed magical. However, initiations begin nothing, they confirm the level of spiritual awareness an Initiate has already gained by study and induction into the esoteric Wisdom Lore of the Ancients.
An Initiation Ceremony is not undergone until the Ordeal of Mastery has been successfully experienced.
Female sexuality in general was a deranged preoccupation of witch-hunters.
The 1486 treatise Malleus Maleficarum (“The Hammer of Witches”), written by the German inquisitor Henrich Kramer, became the unofficial manual on demonology, satanism, and witch-hunting during the European witch craze. At this time in colonial Massachusetts, there was a strain on resources and a discomfort in the people of Salem Village regarding the village’s first ordained minister, Reverend Samuel Parris.
With Gay Witchcraft, Penczak joins the ranks of his forebearers in spirit, gay writers who have taken a tradition and made it home.
This is a complete book of theory and spiritual practices of Witchcraft for the gay community. The charge turned into witchcraft because the authorities found sorcery easier to wrap their minds around than sapphic tryst.
As an unfalsifiable claim for which evidence could be invented, contorted, or conjured into existence with the torturer’s implements, witchcraft was a useful all-purpose tool to boost conviction rates, exact retribution, or simply persecute outsiders — including queer people.