Gay spirit, psychic and creative energies generated by people we now call gay, has always existed on the outer shores of our culture's collective consciousness. In the past, gay people were labeled heretics, perversions of nature, or categorized pseudoscientificly; consequently, gay people lived on the edge of the global village or worked within its mainstreamin denial and disguise. But today that spirit has reemerged and lives amongst us.

The result of nearly a decade of investigative cultural reporting and research into the ethnicity of the gay subculture, this wide ranging collection of essays by some of the most original and provocative gay thinkers suggest that gay people have a particular vision and special contribution to make to society, arising from a perspective that is subtley and essentially different from the non-gay view.