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Visionary love: A spirit book of gay mythology and trans-mutational faerie

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Mitch Walker is the author of several very important books on queer life and is a psychotherapist and queer spiritual teacher and shaman. He was co-founder with Harry Hay and Don Kilhefner of the Radical Faerie movement in 1979 and was the first writer to propose a gay-centered Jungian psychology in his 1975 Master's thesis, "Gay Depth Psychology."

Since then he has continued to explore gay archetypal truths as a queer shamanic psychologist in his writings, practice and a growing community of people engaged in gay-centered inner work.

Visionary Love: A Spirit Book of Gay Mythology and Transmutational Faerie (Treeroots Press, 1980) is a little book of barely a hundred pages. But, oh! What treasures are buried within those pages, what globe-encircling and decade-spanning memes given rise to! This is a book about rebirthing within ourselves and within one another as queer men that alchemic power to transform the world and everything in it that a heterosexist, pleasure-denying and oppressive cutural matrix has sought to stifle, to silence and to rob. It is a wonderful companion to that other great work of Queer spirituality, Judy Grahn's "Another Mother Tongue," and the two serve admirably as complements to each other.

This little book has been out of print for many years, but it played so epochal a role in the revivification of the Queer Spirit, that wild faith of the Faeirie, that it needs to be not simply widely read, but widely learned and loved.