Queer Spirit
Queer Spirit is more than a festival -
It is a group that provides ways for LGBTQI+ people to explore spirituality, healing and personal development, and that celebrates the creative and spiritual gifts that the queer tribes bring to humanity.
Queer Spirit is the synergy formed by bringing together many views, experiences, beliefs, philosophies and ways of being that have queerness, community and spirituality at their core. It is a cauldron of queer vitality connecting the worlds, exploring energy, nature & love.
Aims
- To create gatherings of the queer-spirited tribes that are safe spaces free from homophobia, heterosexism and any other form of discrimination or abuse.
- To build a community that celebrates the indomitable spirit of LGBTQI+ people.
- To support and sustain, and to provide safe places to explore the spirituality of LGBTQI+ people, and to build bridges and understanding between LGBTQI+ spiritual and religious groups.
- To create places to help reduce the isolation of, and the discrimination against, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer and intersex people, and all other people whose sexual or gender identity makes them liable to such isolation and discrimination.
- To provide events, workshops and entertainments that are relevant and interesting to the Queer communty, in particular in areas where little exists, and where LGBTQI+ people are geographically or culturally isolated or dependent on pubs and clubs for social contact.
- To make the organisation accessible to all LGBTQI+ people, regardless of location, race, colour, culture, class, religion, age, disability or gender, and to set up alliances with non-LGBTQI+ people who support our aims and wish to work with us.
Objectives
Towards these AIMS the group will:
- Network with individuals and groups who support the aims of Queer Spirit. Support them to challenge homophobia and to build their own events.
- Organise events for the purposes of mutual support, sharing of ideas and information, celebrating the lives and achievements of LGBTQI+ people, now and in the past, and breaking down isolation.
- Keep a contact list and ensure the privacy of this list.
