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The Queer Gnostic Cult

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The Origins of Queer Theory

This is going to be a different take on queer theory than probably anybody's ever heard. I'm going to frame it as queer nosticism. Nostic means several things at least four. And the broader sense of nostic includes another thing called hermeticism. Hermeticism is a ancient religion. It's credited hermetic refers to Hermes. That's credited to the Egyptian god who is the equivalent of Hermes that spelled like you would pronounce it, T-H-O-T-H.

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