Under a high canopy of bright red autumn leaves, a large fire blazes in a circle made from the stones of an old farmhouse. The waxing moon beams through. The woods are filled with the primitive pounding of beating drums.
Sex is all around.
Chants in honor of ancient Goddesses repeat over and over. What's going on is the first Radical Faerie Gathering at the newly purchased Faerie Sanctuary near Grafton, Vermont. Four years of hard work, fundraising, and land search have finally paid off. Sanctuary is communally owned queer land where queers can go and find, well, sanctuary from the homophobic hetero-headed world outside. Sanctuary where Faeries go to forget how society defines what is normal and healthy.