How history, myth, and magic have always carried queer voices — and why it’s time we listen
They told us queerness was new.
That we invented ourselves only recently, that we were a “modern trend,” a “phase,” a “disruption.”
But the truth has always shimmered in the margins:
The queer prophets were always here.
Long before the word queer existed, long before pride parades and hashtags and human rights declarations, there were people — divine, disruptive, radiant people — who dared to live in their truth anyway.
Some were loved. Most were feared. Many were erased.
But still they danced. They painted. They worked. They played. They resisted. They existed.
And their legacy is not lost. It’s in you.
They Lived in the In-Between
Across cultures, queer and gender-diverse people have held sacred roles for millennia.
We were not always shamed — we were often revered.
- Two-Spirit people in many Indigenous nations were seen as gifted and balanced, holding both masculine and feminine wisdom.
- Hijras of South Asia held spiritual power, performing blessings at weddings and births.
- In ancient Mesopotamia, gala priests — effeminate and assigned male at birth — served the goddess Inanna.
- Roman and Greek societies recorded diverse sexualities and gender expressions, even in their myths and leadership.
- In pre-colonial Africa, LGBTQIA+ people held accepted, even honored, positions — until colonial religions declared them “unnatural.”
These were not anomalies. They were threads in the human fabric.
And while colonization and empire tried to sever those threads, they could not kill the truth:
We have always existed. We have always mattered.
The Prophets Didn’t Always Wear Robes
We often imagine prophets as men with staffs and scrolls.
But prophecy is not limited to scripture.
Prophets are truth-speakers. Boundary-breakers. Mirror-holders. They reveal what others are too afraid to face.
Queer prophets come in many forms:
- The drag queen who turns shame into beauty.
- The trans elder who mentors with fierce love.
- The nonbinary teen who refuses to dim their light.
- The asexual poet who redefines intimacy.
- The intersex activist who declares their body holy.
- The lovers who survive in a world built to erase them.
Each one a sermon. Each one a sacred disruption.
If you have ever claimed your truth in a world that called it unacceptable — you, too, are a prophet.
✨ Tinkerbell’s Gospel: Keepers of Glittering Wisdom
Here in The Church of Tinkerbell, we know that prophecy doesn’t require a pulpit.
It might flutter in on wings, wreathed in sparkles and giggles. It might hum in the voice of a friend who finally says, “You’re allowed to be who you are.”
It might even rise in your own chest, when you realize:
They were wrong about me. I am not a problem to solve. I am a story unfolding.
Tinkerbell herself is a patron saint of the misfit. Fiercely emotional. Full of light and jealousy and loyalty and play. Unapologetic. Seen as “too much” by the wrong people — and just enough by the right ones.
What is queerness if not the magic of truth wrapped in defiance?
We Are the Living Continuation
Pride Month is not just a celebration. It is a resurrection.
We resurrect the names they tried to forget.
We speak the languages they tried to silence.
We wear the colors they tried to bleach out of us.
We reclaim the bodies they tried to rewrite.
Every queer person alive today is an answered prayer someone dared to whisper.
We don’t always know their names. Sometimes their stories were destroyed. Sometimes their truth was buried in coded language. But their spark survived — in us.
And now it’s our turn to be the keepers of that flame.
🧚♀️ A Blessing for the Queer Prophets
🕯 Blessed be the ones who spoke truth when no one listened.
🕯 Blessed be the ones who lived between lines and beyond labels.
🕯 Blessed be the ancestors in glitter and grief.
🕯 Blessed be the stories we carry in our bodies.
🕯 Blessed be the queer prophets of today — especially the ones who don’t know they are.
🕯 And blessed be you.
Your queerness is not new.
It is ancient.
It is sacred.
It is a continuation of a radiant lineage of rebels and mystics and visionaries.
The queer prophets were always here.
And now — so are you.
