Camp extravaganza and Mayday pagan frolics at Queer as Folklore exhibition in London
David Harrison's Trans Goat: Dance of the Universe (2020) 1 May or Mayday is a big event in the pagan calendar. For the Celts it marked the major festival of Beltranem, when spring turns into summer, sap starts to rise and thoughts turn to fecundity. Hence the erection of maypoles and all other manner of other ribald ritualistic shenanigans. So strongly ingrained is this ancient pre-Christian festival across the western world that Mayday, with all its radical and nonconformist connotations, was adopted by the early socialist movement, with the first international Mayday procla...
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