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GAY PERSPECTIVE Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe (includes postage) |
GAY SPIRTUALITY Gay Identity and the Transformation of Human Consciousness (includes postage) |
A sweet soft sci-fi romantic comedy about gay innocence and truth telling (includes postage) |
The Fourth Quill (includes postage) |
Getting Life in Perspective A gay spiritual romance novel set in the 1890s (includes postage) |
The Myth of the Great Secret: An Appreciation of Joseph Campbell Soon to be re-released by Lethe Press |
Two
Spirits: A Story of Life with the Navajo
A Western genre novel, gay romance, set in the 1860s, in collaboration with Walter L. Williams $18.00 (includes postage) |
Lammy-nominee 2007 Charmed Lives:
Gay Spirit in Storytelling
An anthology of 37 gay positive stories with "a touch of the Twilight Zone" $18.00 (includes postage) |
Lammy-winning GAY SPIRITUALITY: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness.
Toby Johnson's 2003 Lammy-nominated book is
GAY PERSPECTIVE: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us
about the Nature of God and the Universe
This book has been re-released with lots of new and updated content,
and a new Preface, by Lethe Press: White Crane Books
(and a beautiful new cover by Peter Grahame*)
Set in the 1860s, it's the story of a young Virginian, fresh out of the Civil War and struggling to find love and manly comradeship without understanding what that means, who inadvertently gets himself assigned to be Government Indian Agent to the Navajos at the Bosque Redondo Reservation at Fort Sumner in the New Mexico desert, a kind of concentration camp experiment in Indian management. The young protagonist comes to appreciate the plight of the Navajo after he falls in love with the Two-Spirit/berdache/ healer. Together the two lovers manage to get the "experiment" declared a failure and so liberate the Navajo people and get them back to their sacred homelands.
Says W Randy Haynes (Cherokee) author of the gay murder mystery with an Indian detective, Cajun Snuff:
"Two Spirits is a spectacular tale based upon the 1860's eviction of the Navajo people from their sacred lands. The reader is transported to an earlier era where little known spiritual traditions were, until recently, unmentionable outside some Native American cultures. With an obvious love and deep respect for the Navajo, Williams and Johnson expose a clash of cultures that will stun many. Two Spirits, a treasure to read, is a rare combination of historical fiction and spiritual wisdom at its absolute finest."Navajo/Dine scholar Wesley Thomas provides A Commentary at the end of the story discussing the current state of Navajo/Dine culture.
This is a wonderful love story with an adventuresome plot in the style of Western genre, but with a delightfully gay twist and a good and very palatable dose of sensible spirituality.
Two Spirits recounts the true history of Native American cultures -- including same-sex marriage. So-called "gay marriage" was practiced on the American continent for untold centuries before the Europeans arrived. People we'd call "gay" today were revered members of the tribe. They were the storytellers, priests, doctors, ambassadors, counselors. They were the ones who kept culture alive -- just as gay people are today (but with much less thanks and recognition from the mainstream culture).
"A treasure to read"
TWO SPIRITS: A Story of Life with the Navajo $18.00
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"Toby
Johnson's fly blend of sweet romance, social commentary and
entertaining science fictionRichard Labonte
The
story tells
of the arrival of a race of aliens. They have cameleon-like autonomic
functions in their skin coloration which reveal their emotional and
psychological states. Thus they are fundamentally unable to lie. For
them homosexual activity is consistent with their biology and normal
in their culture. Recognizing our society's objection to homosexual
activity, however, they try to hide their true nature. The tension
created between the two cultures confuses their mission in coming to
our world.The plot
is a
sweet love story about the relationship between a young gay man and
one of the aliens. Through several levels the protagonist slowly
uncovers the truth about the aliens' "secret life," including,
finally, the fact that they aren't really alien at all, but rather
come from a parallel world of Earth. The punch line is that in the
creation myth of the Garden of Eden in their world their "Adam &
Eve" did NOT commit original sin and their reward was both their
inability to hide the truth and, incidentally, their homosexuality. The
novel is
about the importance of coming out and the innocence of gay
experience. The excerpt from Secret Matter describes The Arrival of the Visitors
In June 1999, the US national
gay and lesbian science
fiction fan club, the Gaylactic Network, nominated SECRET MATTER for
induction into its newly created Hall of Fame. This was the first
year of the Spectrum Awards and the Gaylactic Network Hall of Fame.
SECRET MATTER was chosen as one of the five nominees out of all
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The Fourth Quill
orginally published as PLAGUE:
A Novel about Healing is the story of an AIDS
educator who uncovers a misconceived plot to suppress an effective
cure for HIV. As he begins to realize the sinister nature of his
discovery, he is forced to take seriously the teachings about healing
and about the nature of evil presented in A Course in Miracles, which
he has been talking about with members of an AIDS support group he
facilitates.
While
structured as a thriller, the novel is an uplifting presentation of
the wisdom of ACIM and of the delightful little spiritual
classic The
Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment and Ursula LeQuin's classic
novel The Lathe of Heaven.
This
novel is
an example of science fiction as modern day mythology.
Originally published by Alyson Publications
The excerpt from The Fourth Quill is a dramatization of a story that Joe Campbell used to tell about the Mahayana Buddhist myth of the Bodhisattva as world savior and a paradoxical presentation of what we usually think of as suffering. The tale is called The Fourth Quill
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"There is a fresh naivete in [Toby Johnson's] style that rings pleasantly in the ear, like the memory of a 'boy's book' enthusiastically devoured at age 12. Against the sour punk of so much of today's gay male fiction, Getting Life in Perspective is a treat." Marvin Shaw
GETTING LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE is a
post-modern novel about a big
city literary editor who, when faced with serious illness, retires to
the country to relieve stress and to write the novel he's always been
intending to write. Living alone in a ramshackle old mansion in the
Texas Hill Country, he begins to imagine that the characters of his
novel are real. Two young gay men from the 1890s then appear to him
and recount the story of their lives.
In the
turn-of-the-century story, the two characters, having managed to find
one another against great odds, seek refuge in a gay utopian colony
in Colorado loosely modeled after Edward Carpenter's farm in Sussex,
England. There they discover a gay positive, post-Christian,
Whitman-inspired spirituality.
The
writer is
never clear whether he is seeing ghosts or simply very vividly
creating his novel. But the Topper-esque ghosts playfully assist him
in coming to terms with his own self-pity and fear of dying.
It's a
sweet,
occasionally sexy, historical romance with a contemporary
spiritual/philosophical message woven in--along with justs a touch of
the Twilight Zone.
$18.00
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combo offer $11.99
Both of Toby Johnson's books on Gay Spirituality,
plus a podcast interview with Harry Faddis on The Quest of Life,
featuring Johnson's talk "The Way of Joyful Participation in the Sorrows of the World"Read on your computer or download to iTunes
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"[Gay Spirituality] is the book that Walt Whitman might have written if he'd studied with Joseph Campbell. It combines an unflaggingly exuberant, life-affirming tone with impressive scholarship and interpretive flair. And, like Whitman, it convinces not by argument but by its presence. The clarity of the author's mind--as well as his evident kindness, wit, and intellectual daring--has produced what is not so much a book as a soul-replenishing companion, a guide, and a friend." Stephen Mo Hanan, The Gay & Lesbian Review. Lethe Press, $20.00 Available at bookstores nationwide and (autographed) from the author.
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GAY PERSPECTIVE:
Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about
the Nature of God and the Universe(click on title for more info & reviews)
"An illuminating, honest, provocative, and significant exploration of gay spirituality. This is must reading for all seeking the spiritual element in the gay experience."--Malcolm Boyd,
Take Off the Masks, Gay Priest, & Look Back in Joy--Mark Thompson,
Gay Spirit, Gay Soul, & Gay Body"Toby Johnson reveals how gay male sensibility contributes to the leading edge of culture and consciousness, and can even revolutionize religion in ways that benefit everyone. You may never view your role in the scheme of things in quite the same way.
-- Bruce P. Grether,
Mindful Masturbation: Transforming Male Self-Pleasuring into a Spiritual PracticeWhite Crane Books/Lethe Press - $20.00 - Available at bookstores nationwide and from the author (autographed, if you'd like) through this website. In Australia, GAY PERSPECTIVE is distributed by Bulldog Books.
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Read About White Crane Journal
Meet Toby Johnson & Kip Dollar
The Myth of the Great Secret: An Appreciation of Joseph Campbell
Toby's 1983 book In Search of God in the Sexual Underworld (published under the name Edwin Clark Johnson) is available used from amazon.com resellers. Click here.
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