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In the 1970s, while communes bloomed like wildflowers across the land, most had no room for queer members. The so-called counterculture still clung to heterosexual norms, even as it preached freedom from traditional gender roles and the nuclear family. Juda Bennett's engrossing memoir follows his escape from suburbia into the back-to-the-land movement—and chronicles the efforts it took for him to "drop back in" to mainstream society and the ways in which he and his compatriots continued to honor their communal vision.
After enduring the hollow promises of "progressive" communes, Bennett finally found what he didn't know he was looking for at Lavender Hill, a rural queer commune of visionaries carving out a life beyond heteronormativity, beyond capitalism, beyond shame. They didn't just survive; they built something messy, luminous, and defiantly alive. And when the commune began to unravel, they didn't vanish. They evolved. Qtopia is a story of chosen family and radical transformation. It is a reminder that queer utopia isn't behind us—it's still out there on the horizon, singing its song of joy, defiance, and fabulousness.
Contents
Preface
Part One: Before I Could Dream of Lavender Hill
On Hippies and Boot Camp
In Walks the Mummy
Leaving Home
Walking to the Mountain
Too Much Flesh in the Afternoon Sun
Culture Shock
Back in the Diamond State
One Thousand Communes
Living in a Coal Bin
Everything Was an Experiment, Even Sexuality
Before Leaving, the Rats Came
What It's Like to Die
RFD, or How a Magazine Can Save Your Life
How Freaky Can You Get? Part Two: Lavender Hill
The Road to Utopia
I Need to Believe in This Place
A House Out of a Fairy Tale
First Love
In Search of Michael
Too Much Love
What Is Home to Queer People?
Pilgrimage to San Francisco
How I Got My Hippie Name
Locating Utopia on a Map
Jerry Becomes Ruby, and Ruby Becomes Green Man
House on Wheels
Too Poor Not to Be Educated
Fires Everywhere
How Many People Make a Commune
In Walks Allen Ginsberg
Insert Myth Here
How to Build Family with Only Two People
Empty and Naked
Interlude of the House That Was Not a House Part Three: Where Are They Now?
Talking to Ghosts
A Virtual Gathering
Jeff, the Preservationist
