"Otherness, far from being denied or diminished, is made central to the Radical Faerie identity. This is a positive, self-constructed Otherness, however, which allows queer people to construct, or reconstruct, models of reality, which are useful to themselves, and which emphasizes the nature of the Other as being good, functional and necessary. The concept of androgyny was taken on by the Faeries and given a distinctly spiritual bent. Rather than referring to an asexual or omni-sexual state, androgyny for the Fairies means radically juxtaposing elements of the masculine and feminine in psychological as well as physical formulations. The role of the fool, the trickster, the contrary one capable of turning a situation inside out, is one of the most enduring of all archetypes. Often cross dressed or adorned with both masculine and feminine symbols, these merry pranksters chase through history, holding up a looking glass to human folly.... The Drag Queen, the image of the glamorous cross-dressing male who emerged from the 1970’s ‘gender fuck’ generation, represents a modern embodiment of the Androgen figure for the Faeries .....

.....The second core concept of Radical Faerie spirituality is subject-SUBJECT- consciousness Originally proposed as a principle by Harry Hay, it has been taken up and expanded upon more fully by Walker (Walker, M. (1987) Visionary Love: The Magical Gay Spirit Power. In: Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning. by Mark Thompson (ed), New York pp. 222-235) and Burnside (Burnside, J. (1989) Who are the Gay People? and other essays, San Francisco: pp 15-20). It is based on the notion that gay peoples experience and relate to the world in a fundamentally unique way. .... a queer way of perceiving the world, is a force that has build into it a positive self-definition of Other. Queer people are Other because they perceive the world in an essentially unique way - a way which is integral to the well-being of themselves as individuals, and that of the world as a whole. When the individual (as the microcosm), and the world (as a macrocosm), are perceived as subjects, then all the problems of exploitative ‘objectification’ disappear and an utopian vision of everyone open to everyone in perfect trust appears. ...."