10 - What is theelogy?

Summary

GOD?

It is in this century misunderstood, so much misunderstood that it may be described as the “Love that dare not speak its name,” and on account of it I am placed where I am now.

Ginny's story, highlighted earlier, illustrates the love that dared not speak its name. Both her and her partner were teachers and were friends with another female couple, with whom they often had drinks, however they did not discuss that they were all gay. “That was just the just the way it was back then. We never talked about that.”

Butch-femme women made lesbians visible in a terrifyingly clear way in a historical period when there was no Movement protection for them. Their appearance spoke of erotic independence, and they often provoked rage and censure both from their own community and straight society.

The only sacred accessible to the bar culture women was the possible self that might, despite the odds, be able to identify herself as sacred, for she was inhabiting the place where such a self could be seen. If the self, her self, could do this, she might then be able to see that type of self in someone else. The gay women's bar then was perhaps a God-less place but not necessarily a god-less place.