Star Gays is ringing in a beautiful New Moon in Gemini with a very special episode - the one year anniversary of Star Gays. Astrologer Michael J Morris joins host Elly Higgins to discuss trans activist and writer Lou Sullivan. Sullivan is thought to be the first publicly identified gay transgender man and his work and advocacy has helped to define our current understandings of gender and sexuality, removed barriers in accessing transgender medical care, and laid the ground work for trans peer support groups to flourish.

In this episode Michael and Elly discuss queer astrology, what it means to have a chosen family lineage, and then using Sullivan's diary as a guide, get into his Gemini Sun, Mercury, and Mars as indicators of the role of communication, writing, and mentorship in his life. Then Michael shares their research on the secondary progressed moon phases with Sullivan's chart!

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Michael J. Morris, PhD, is an astrologer, tarot reader, artist, writer, teacher, and facilitator. They began their consulting practice Co Witchcraft Offerings in 2019 through which they share astrology, tarot, and movement ritual practices for personal and collective healing and liberation.
https://www.michaeljmorris.co/

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Theme music written and produced by Elly Higgins and bobbie⁠.

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Lou Sullivan's Chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Sullivan,_Louis_Graydon

Sources:

We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma

Lou Sullivan: Daring to be a Man Among Men - Brice D Smith

https://www.glbthistory.org/primary-source-set-lou-sullivan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xggb5naOppo&t=348s

("No I would have loved to be promiscuous")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGVDPhGIA7g ("They said I couldn't live as a gay man but looks like I'm going to die as one.")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_Zqes8Q8Q&t=185s ("I just don't see any reason to hide it.")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxgZNNX-v2g&t=186s (Sexuality and gender as different)