Thank you to everyone for creating a wonderful space for all! 
London's Radical Faeries have been hosting the Queer Spirit Circle at the Wheatsheaf Hall in Vauxhall (London SW8 2UP) since Winter Solstice 2012, up to 70+ people meeting mostly at full moons for an evening of drumming and dancing, ceremony and socialising.
The Queer Spirit Circle is a relaxed, friendly, non-commercial, community space for spiritually-inclined LGBTQ+ people to meet each other and make some magic together. The Circle has been a catalyst for many friendships and creative projects. At the Circle we celebrate the hidden history of the spiritual roles that LGBTQ+ people held in pre-monotheistic cultures around the world, as we reclaim this part of our nature for today. Many LGBTQ+ people are drawn to spiritual paths and explorations outside of religious structures, drawn to nature connection and ecstatic states of consciousness, here's a place to find each other and have some fun. At the drum circle we rise on the rhythms, celebrate the sacred oneness of life, and make lots of new friends.
Entry by cash donation, suggested £10/5. Welcome to bring own refreshments, snacks to share.
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Queer Spirit Full Moon Circle
Queer Spirit Full Moon Circle 28 February
Radical Faeries and Queer Spirits gather in south London just before the Virgo full moon, the last full moon of winter!
This month we celebrate London's gay history - and specifically the spirit of the Mollies: 300 years ago London's queer subculture was already developing (and maybe had been for much longer). In February 1726 London's molly houses were raided, mollies arrested, tried and 3 men were sent to the gallows.
Mother Clap's molly house in Holborn was one of several establishments raided after an undercover surveillance operation by members of the Society for the Reformation of Manners, which had been exposing the existence of mollies since the start of the century - describing a scene that was already well formed: groups of men met regularly at molly ‘clubs’ where they used ‘maiden’ nicknames for one another, danced together, camped it up, sometimes dressed in drag on special ‘festival nights’, and had a specialised molly slang.
"Most of the sodomites convicted from 1698 through 1709 were entrapped due to the zeal of one man, Rev William Bray, the leading organiser of the Society for the Reformation of Manners. Most of the raids on molly houses through the 1720s were lead by six members of the Society who infiltrated the molly houses. The founding leaders of the Societies, such as Rev Bray, were dead by 1730, and due to a financial scandal the Societies formally disbanded in 1738. Relatively little is known about the queer subculture after that date: not because queers went underground, but because specific groups of moral reformers no longer worked actively to reveal them." Rictor Norton, A Critique of Social Constructionism and Postmodern Queer Theory, "Queer Subcultures," 24 October 2002, updated 19 June 2008 <http://www.rictornorton.co.uk/social27.htm>
You are invited to dress to express your Faerie or indeed your MOLLY spirit!
We gather from 7 to set up the space and cast circle around 8 pm, then drum, dance and socialise through the evening.
There are lots of drums and percussion to use. you can also bring your own.
Also welcome to bring snacks to share and your own liquid refreshments.
Donation requested to cover venue hire. £5/£10 as you can afford, cash on door or PayPal
NOTAFLOF - No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds.
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Equinox Drum Circle
The Circle meets a few days before the Equinox Full Moon to greet the Spring. Here's our chance to cast spells for the spring and summer seasons - equinox offers us BALANCE, perspective and a shift of gear from the inward focused winter energy into the more active, outward focussed half of the year.
We gather from 7 to set up the space and greet each other, cast a circle at 8pm then we drum, dance, socialise and play through the evening. There's lots of drums and percussion to share around, you are welcome to bring your own instruments too,your own refreshments and imaybe snacks to share.
Entry suggested £5 - £10, cash at the venue, or via PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/shokti
