Star Gays: The Queer Astrology Archives Podcast

Aquarius season is here and in this episode of Star Gays, film critic Caden Mark Gardener joins host Elly Higgins to talk about filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Anger's 1947 film Fireworks is thought to be the first narrative gay film in the United States. Anger made almost 40 short films, exploring themes of desire, homoeroticism, and the occult. He was a follower of Aleister Crowley, an outsider in Hollywood, and he was born on an Aquarius New Moon. ---------------------------------------------------------- You can preorder Caden's book here! Caden's instagram: @corpsesfoolsandmonsters / @corpsesfoolsandmonstersthebook bluesky: @cadenmarkgardner ---------------------------------------------------------- Please like, rate, review and subscribe to Star Gays. You can find me on twitter @ehastrolgy, instagram @ellyhigginsastro, and on my website ⁠⁠stargaysastrology.ghost.io⁠⁠. Please consider becoming a supporting member of the podcast via my website if you appreciate the work I'm doing. Your support would allow me to dedicate more time to the podcast. Theme music written and produced by myself and ⁠⁠bobbie⁠⁠. Thanks so much for listening! ---------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth Anger's Chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Anger,_Kenneth Sources: https://vestoj.com/a-conversation-with-kenneth-anger/ https://glreview.org/article/kenneth-anger-director-fireworks-at-sixty/ https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8165-kenneth-anger-magic-is-what-you-make-it https://hyperallergic.com/824326/kenneth-anger-trailblazing-experimental-filmmaker-dies-at-96/ https://www.bentclouds.com/films/kustom.html https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/3567/kenneth-anger-on-the-occult https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsjMYcKPux8&t=262s (Kenneth Anger Interview)

Happy new year! In 2024, Star Gays will be following the sun as it transits through the signs of the zodiac. Each month I will feature a Star Gay who has their sun in the sign of the season and to start us off we're going to talk about Capricorn goat Susan Sontag. Sontag was a novelist, cultural critic, and public intellectual. Sontag embodied Capricorn's serious, determined, and melancholic nature. Her Capricorn and Virgo stelliums worked together to give her a sharp tongue and biting wit. In this episode we really break down the archetypes of Capricorn and Virgo. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please like, rate, review and subscribe to Star Gays. You can find me on twitter @ehastrolgy, instagram @ellyhigginsastro, and on my website ⁠stargaysastrology.ghost.io⁠. Please consider becoming a supporting member of the podcast via my website if you appreciate the work I'm doing. Your support would allow me to dedicate more time to the podcast. Theme music written and produced by myself and ⁠bobbie⁠. Thanks so much for listening! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Sontag's Chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Sontag,_Susan Sources: Sontag Interview with Chris Lydon (all audio clips from this interview) Reborn, Journals and Notebooks: 1947-1963 - Susan Sontag Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag Notes On Camp - Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag Finding Fact From Fiction How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think Notes on Sontag ⁠Misunderstanding Susan Sontag⁠ Remembering Susan Sontag's Final Days Sontag Timeline

In this special bonus video episode of Star Gays, I walk through my process for rectifying Susan Sontag's chart and make an argument for her rising sign and birth time! Using Zodiacal Releasing, a Hellenistic timing technique, to divide her life into chapters, we analyze a couple possibilities for rising signs for Capricorn Susan Sontag. This episode is an addendum to the main episode on Sontag's life and work! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please like, rate, review and subscribe to Star Gays. You can find me on twitter @ehastrolgy, instagram @ellyhigginsastro, and on my website ⁠stargaysastrology.ghost.io⁠. Please consider becoming a supporting member of the podcast via my website if you appreciate the work I'm doing. Your support would allow me to dedicate more time to the podcast. Theme music written and produced by myself and ⁠bobbie⁠. Thanks so much for listening! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

On today's episode of Star Gays: The Queer Astrology Archives Podcast, we are going to do a deep dive into the chart of Marxist feminist scholar/activist Angela Davis. Davis has been a life-long activist and scholar, drawing connections between racism, capitalism, sexism, and abolition. We look to her Taurus rising as well as her Aquarius Sun and Moon to understand Davis' relationship to communism, capitalism, and the structures that create the conditions for oppression and liberation. Then we use Secondary Progressions to map out the chapters of her life. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please like, rate, review and subscribe to Star Gays. You can find me on twitter @ehastrolgy, instagram @ellyhigginsastro, and on my website stargaysastrology.ghost.io. Please consider becoming a supporting member of the podcast via my website if you appreciate the work I'm doing. Your support would allow me to dedicate more time to the podcast. Theme music written and produced by myself and bobbie. Thanks so much for listening! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Angela's Chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Davis,_Angela Sources: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1654517 (Grief Beyond Language - Nicki Kattoura and Nada Abuasi) Davis - Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Davis - Angela Davis: An Autobiography https://www.advocate.com/books/2022/7/29/angela-davis-abolition-capitalism-politics-coming-out#toggle-gdpr ​​https://reasonandmeaning.com/2015/09/01/marx-video-about-work/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/05/angela-davis-on-the-power-of-protest-we-cant-do-anything-without-optimism https://www.huffpost.com/entry/angela-davis-i-dont-see-m_b_3332913 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/15/18589458.php Complexity, Activism, Optimism: An Interview with Angela Y. Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS3-MCf-q6I (1971 Interview, What is A Revolutionary?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIVxooM5kG8&t=144s (2023 Interview, June Jordan/Nelson Mandela, and 'It Takes Time and Hope')

***Hey, I have a website now! Check it out at stargaysastrology.ghost.io and if you like the work I’m doing with this podcast, you can become a supporting member through the donate page. Your support would mean a lot to me and allow me to spend more time on this podcast in a sustainable way. Thanks so much!*** Welcome back to Star Gays! Today’s episode is part two on the Compton Cafeteria Riots. We dive into the astrology of August 1966 to try to narrow down an exact date for the riots. In part one we looked at the astrology of the July 18th picket that proceeded the riots but in today’s episode we dive into that Uranus Pluto conjunction more and talk about Venus Mars and Jupiter’s collective movement through Cancer. Please subscribe to and rate the podcast. Thanks so much for listening! You can find me on Instagram @ellyhigginsastro and Twitter @ehastrology and my website, stargaysastrology.ghost.io Sources Used: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/q237hr95t http://www.vanguard1965.com/ https://vanguardrevisited.blogspot.com/p/archive.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=182&v=xvJxyD9jTB4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fvanguardrevisited.blogspot.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo (two audio clips used in episode found from this source, oral interviews with Vanguard members)

On today’s episode of Star Gays we are doing something a little different. We are going to look at the astrology of an event in queer history - the Compton Cafeteria Riots in San Francisco in 1966. The Compton Cafeteria Riots were an early instance of queer and trans radical response to police harassment and discrimination. They were largely forgotten until historian Susan Stryker found a pamphlet referencing them in the early 2000s. In this episode we look at the larger planetary cycles that correspond with the riots and the events that led up to them. This episode is part one. Part two coming soon! Please subscribe to the podcast and give it a rating! Thanks so much for listening! You can find me on social media. On Instagram @ellyhigginsastro and on Twitter @ehastrology! Chart for July 18 Picket: https://ibb.co/g7cfjpv Sources used: Screaming Queens - Susan Stryker Transgender History - Susan Stryker ‘Street Power’ and the Claiming of Public Space: San Francisco’s ‘Vanguard’ and Pre-Stonewall Queer Radicalism - Jennifer Worley (in Captive Genders) Cosmos and Psyche - Richard Tarnas Liberationschool.org/Compton-cafeteria-riot/

Happy Cancer Season! On this episode of Star Gays we are going to do a deep dive into the chart of activist Sylvia Rivera. Rivera was a gay liberation and transgender rights activist as well as community organizer in New York City in the years immediately following the Stonewall riots. We talk about Sylvia’s Cancer Sun and the archetype of the mother, we look at her Sun Uranus conjunction as both revolutionary and divisive, and we explore how that Mars-Saturn-Chiron T-square tells a painful but important story. (And more!!) Please subscribe to and rate the show! Thanks for listening! You can find me on Instagram @ellyhigginsastro and Twitter @ehastrology. Link to Sylvia Rivera’s chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Rivera,_Sylvia Links to sources used: https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-15_60f0aa51e7765_sylvia-rivera-sylvia-riveras-talk-at-lgmny-june-2001-lesbian-and-gay-community-services-center-new-york-city-3.pdf https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/gay-power-is-trans-history-street-transvestite-action-revolutionaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Liberation_Front https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/sylvia-rivera-part-2/ https://gaycitynews.com/exploding-the-myths-of-stonewall/ https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/sylvia-rivera-1951-2002-by-michael-bronski/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Transvestite_Action_Revolutionaries https://www.workers.org/2006/us/lavender-red-73/ https://www.queerbible.com/queerbible/2017/10/8/interview-sylvia-rivera-by-leslie-feinberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera https://www.biography.com/activists/marsha-p-johnson-sylvia-rivera-friendship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWwD_D0Guhs (Sylvia Rivera 20 min doc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI2bxUSRF7I (”I gave them their pride”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-JIOWUw1o (Y'all better quiet down) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Non-Discrimination_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_Act_(United_States) https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/transy-house/ https://zagria.blogspot.com/2015/10/bebe-scarpinato-1951-activist-teacher.html https://zagria.blogspot.com/2017/03/bubbles-rose-lee-194-activist.html#.XRGJndNKhE4 Dean Spade - Normal Life Dean Spade - Mutual Aid

David Wojnarowicz was one of the most influential artists of his generation. He was a painter, photographer, writer, and HIV/AIDS activist who lived and worked in the East Village until his death from AIDSrelated complications in 1992. In this episode we’ll look at David’s astrology to see how his 12th house Sun, Libra rising, and exalted Jupiter created the conditions for his passionate, righteous art to thrive while his Aries Moon and Capricorn Mars caused some problems in his personal life. David’s Birth Chart to follow along: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Wojnarowicz,_David Sources: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz Fire In the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz - Cynthia Carr "Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid": The "Dignity of Queer Shame" - Margaret Morrison https://actupny.org/diva/synAshes.html https://artistarchives.hosting.nyu.edu/DavidWojnarowicz/KnowledgeBase/index.php/Main_Page.html https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/angels-of-history-a-biography-of-david-wojnarowicz/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILTzXBa3R6Q (3 teens kill 4 - Desire) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T47ijn0aHzg (David reading “All I can feel is the pressure”) You can find me on instagram @ellyhigginsastro or twitter @ehastrology. Thanks for listening!