The Witches of Hillcrest

Tommy Starchild http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=15767 BY MARCUS FISHER Published Thursday, 29-Oct-2009 in issue 1140 Halloween has a special meaning for the GLBT community. For many, it is the unofficial holiday between Pride and the White party, which allows us to dress in costume and escape to a fantasy world where we are celebrated and accepted for being different. For a select few GLBT people, however, Halloween means something more. That’s because they are witches. Yes, there is such a thing as gay witches. I, Marcus Fisher, am one of them. But its not what you think. We are everyday gay people that practice a tradition that has been misunderstood for centuries: no we don’t just live in convents, we don’t fly on brooms – although some of us would like to – and we are not born this way, like being born gay. Since Halloween is here, I thought I’d shead some light on our little known world......