Queer Saints Shrine
The flame is in your hands, we trust it you. Our sacred demon of ungovernableness. Cherish the flame, we shall rest easy. Stephen, be secret. Child, be strange. Dark, true, impure and dissonant. Cherish our flame.
- Penda's Fen (David Rudkin, 1974)
The secular saints listed here are as true and dissonant as I could find. Saints are not role models: they are people whose lives can teach you. People whose lives were wonderful and terrible. These are my saints; I hope they mean something to you.
Litany of Queer Saints
- Gary Floyd
- Kill from the heart.
- Uncle Jack Charles
- A leading black light.
- Alice Bag
- Babylonian Gorgon.
- The Cockettes
- Does your mother know?
- John Borrowman
- There's treasure on the wasteland.