The door
Who is welcome
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, intersex, asexual, questioning people, and respectful allies.
This is a gay-led project. That is a fact about its host, not a fence. If you are a lesbian, if you are bisexual, if you are trans, if you are nonbinary, if you are intersex, if you are asexual, if you are questioning, if you are a combination of words not listed because language is slower than people: you do not enter as a guest in someone else’s metaphor. The metaphor was built with you already inside.
What welcome has to include, or it is a poster
- No ritual role by anatomy. A trans woman is not a “God energy” by assignment, and she is not barred from one. A trans man is not a symbol. An intersex person is not a teaching tool.
- No fertility ranking. People who do not have children, do not want them, or cannot have them are not spiritually incomplete. Asexual people are not waiting to be fixed by Beltane.
- No outing. If you practice discreetly, the discreet chapter is for you, and no one here needs your story.
- Names and pronouns are used as given. The library’s own prose uses inclusive wording and does not play games with “biological” as a way to smuggle contempt.
Allies
Respectful allies may read, learn, and sit in a group if the group wants them. Allyship is not a speaking tour. Correct your own friends. Do not ask queer people to reassure you that the gods like you too. They have other errands, and so do we.
What you do not need
You do not need a deity who “matches” your orientation before you may pray. The essay on precedent says this at length, because the pressure to produce a marble permission slip is old and exhausting. Your life is not a debate club.