The Faggots & Their Friends on Immediatism podcast

Immediatism now has available readings of the full text of the classic The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, by Larry Mitchell. Delightfully told through story, it is a history of the experience of non-normative sexuality in the seventies, in the north american context. The concept and writing came about in San Francisco and the book was published in 1977 by Calamus Books, New York City. It is now available through distros including ContagionPress.com and LittleBlackCart.com, as a faithful reprint. If your interest is the concept and metastory, you might enjoy listening to the introduction (episode 765) and also the afterword which is included in the final episode's intro (episode 769). Surprisingly, the endearing story ends with what can be read as an allusion to recuperation and an analysis against identity politics.

The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions (introduction), by Larry Mitchell
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/765-faggots-their-friends-betwe...

The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions (main text), by Larry Mitchell
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Feedback is welcomed at Cory@immediatism.com.

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I'm not sure if anarchists should be celebrating a sexual culture which arose out of the frenzied consumption of hedonistic amyl nitrate cocaine cocktails derived from a capitalist industrial process and economics. Not that I'm a prudish moralist, I just believe that Idpol and sexual tendencies have no place in the realization of an anarch world.

Thanks for this feedback. You are not the only person who feels this way. However, I have had feedback on these episodes that the text speaks to people, and these people who have given the feedback are anarchists. So, whether you think that sexuality should be central to anarchist practice is a personal question and neither here nor there. The fact is that many anarchists experience non-normative sexuality and our lives ARE our anarchist practice. In particular, I wish you had read the whole post (all one paragraph of it!) because as I said, it ends with a critique of identity politics per se as non-radical.

Oops, I wish I'd read that last sentence, I'll work on my jumping to conclusions

Props for owning up. something far too rare, everywhere but especially here on anews.

Yes props for demonstrating desired Christian societal morality by "owning up." Such the good quality.

props for calling out this benign interaction between strangers, something far too common but especially on anews

Being anti-identitarian. However, I think hedonism and anarchy are matches for each other. It’s just a matter of making sustainable via epicurean values and good holistic health(clean up the temple after the big party).

While some cocain and poppers are fine do not abuse them as-whether the homos and BIs want to admit it or not-they do co-factor in the rise of ‘AIDS’. See the paper below

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13273-016-0040-z

Also, can we be 4chan about the word faggot and just make it a post-homo strongly worded insult. You don’t have to internalize a term which means burnt stick. Give it to your enemies such as the Xians who still use the F word in that way.

Turds in every punch bowl! So we can have all the nice things! With a turd punchbowl pastiche!

How tf is "owning up" a christian thing you trolly trollerson. Maybe troll some more to find out!
actually nevermind. i withdraw the question and instead, offer you a nice cool glass of punch.

thirsty?

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