Who/What
is a radical faerie?

Ask three faeries, get five answers!

Faeries are, well, faeries. No two are alike, and you may have to wait until you meet or become one in order to get a sense of what we're made of…But that's half the fun!

The radical faeries are a queer tribal nation sharing affinity in the spiritual underpinnings of non-mainstream sexuality and heart-centered relationship. We welcome all queer spirits, straight, gay, bi, trans, two-spirited or searching. We welcome people from all walks of life who want to share and nurture their essential fabulosity. We're decentralized, and no one person is "in charge". Generally, we tend to be gay men who look for a spiritual dimension to our sexuality; many of us are healers of one kind or another. Our shared values include feminism, respect for the Earth, and individual responsibility rather than hierarchy. Many of us are Pagan (nature-based religion).

We are bards, wizards, shamen, and healers. We have always been, and will always be. Humanity requires our existence, no matter how dysfunctionally it may treat us.

We are self-defining. We each choose to be who we are, and there is no authority but our hearts. We gather together, get naked and beautiful ... in oh-so-many different ways ... drop the world, and open to each other; unless we don't feel like it. In which case, we do something else.

Radical Faeries are a "flamboyant anti-assimilationist fringe of gay liberation."

Radical Faeries are non-consumerist earth-centered folk.