TABLE OF CONTENTS

Queering Psychedelics: An Introduction xi

Section 1: From Oppression to Liberation: Organizing for Change

- A Queer Vision for Psychedelic Research: Past Reckonings,Current Reforms, and Future Transformations 3

o Alex Belser, PhD, and Ava Keating

- Where Is the Love? Queerness and the State of Psychedelic Research 13

o Amy Bartlett, LLB, LLM, Challian Christ, Stéphanie Manoni-Millar, Terence H. W. Ching, PhD

- A Queer Response to Psychedelic Privilege 21

o Ariel Vegosen

- A Consensual Discourse Dialogue 29

o Courtney Watson and Emma Knighton

- Community Care: The Heart of Queer Psychedelic Liberation 35

o Diana Quinn, ND

Section 2: Psychedelic Conversion Therapy

- LSD and Mescaline Psychedelic Conversion Therapies in
Postwar North America 45

o Andrea Ens

- Psyched Straight: The Early Life of LSD as a Conversion
Therapy Drug 53

o Tal Davidson

- High Dose Psychedelic Shock Therapy with LSD and Mescaline: The Conversion Treatment of a French Doctor on Two Homosexual Adolescents in the 1960s 59

o Zoë Dubus

Section 3: Queering the Clinic: Psychedelic Treatment

- Queer Rejection, Isolation, and the Promise of Psychedelics 67

o Matthew D. Skinta, PhD, ABPP

- Unicorns and Stardust: A Case Report of Queering MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy 75

o Chris Stauffer, MD, and Andrea Rosati, MD, PhD

- Everything but the Kitchen Sink: Prescribing Psychedelics as
Harm Reduction to Help Gay Men Quit Crystal Meth 81

o John Haupert, NP

- The Quest for Queer Liberation: Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
and Shame 89

o Shanna Butler, PhD, and Laura Mae Northrup

- Widening the Lens: Set and Setting in Queer Psychedelia 97

o Jeanna Eichenbaum

- Best Practices for Assessing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
in Psychedelic Clinical Trials: A Proposed Assessment 103

o Scott McKernan, MA, and Alex Belser, PhD

Section 4: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Psychedelic Experience

- Transcending Dysphoria: Exploring the Novel Counter-Dysphoric
and Lifesaving Effects of Psychedelics in the Transgender
Community 111

o Sam Claude Carmel

- Gender Rituals and Gendered Ritual: Reflections of a
Transgender Activist in the Psychedelic Community 121

o Taylor Dahlia Bolinger

- A Patient’s Perspective on the Healing Potential of Psilocybin 129

o PatientNB

- Integrate with Me: A Story of Queer and Trans Liberation
through Entheogenic Therapy 133

o Tristan Angieri

Section 5: Race, Intersectionality, and Psychedelics as Liberatory Tools for LGBTQIA+ folks

- 火 + 木:  An Intersectional Experience of MDMA-Assisted
Psychotherapy 143

o Terence H. W. Ching, PhD

- Queer Identity, African Diasporic Spirituality, and
Intersectional Healing through Psychedelic Medicine 149

o Kaston D. Anderson-Carpenter, PhD

- A New Standard: The Urban Heroic Dose of 10g 155

o Behike Sensei Kevon Simpson

Section 6: Psychedelics and LGBTQIA+ Self-Acceptance

- Out of All the Boxes: How Psychedelic Experiences Empower and
Affirm Queer Worldviews 169

o Kate Kincaid

- Can Psychedelics Queer You Up? How They Helped Me
Embrace Fluidity 177

o Valentin Somma, PhD

- How Psychedelics Can Guide the Transformative Journey
of Polyamory 185

o Justin Natoli, JD, LMFT

Section 7: Ayahuasca, Santo Daime, and Queer Psychedelic Spirituality

- A Two-Spirit Approach to Psychedelics: Honoring Indigenous
Identities and Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality 195

o Marca Cassity and Katherine A. Costello, PhD

- Reflections on Spirituality, Gender, and Power in my Experience
with Santo Daime 205

o Clancy Cavnar, PsyD

- Ayahuasca and Gender in Brazil: An Interview With Sociologist
Dr. Pietro Benedito—Are Homophobia and Transphobia Sacred? 213

o Beatriz C. Labate

- Sacred-Species-Social Reproduction 221

o Zach Levine

Section 8: Sexuality, Psychedelics, and Queer Pleasure

- Reclaiming Ecstasy: A Radical Queer Perspective on the Power
of Pleasure in Psychedelic Healing 231

o Dee Dee Goldpaugh

- Queering Psychedelic Erotics: Deconstructing Sex and
Embodiment with LSD 239

o Alex Dymock, PhD

- Dungeons of Perception: How the Psychedelic and Kink Community
Can Learn from Each Other to the Benefit of the Queer Community 245

o Denise Renye, PsyD

Section 9: Expansive Queer Psychedelic Phenomenology

- Mushrooms, Magick, and Wilderness: Radical Queer Group Psilocybin Rituals 255

o joie wolfw-m-n

- Connecting to Queer-Inclusive Mythologies for Psychedelic
Integration 263

o Kile M. Ortigo, PhD, and Daan Keiman

- The Psychonaut, the Rapist, and the Rainbow 273

o Ayesha Hussain

Contributor Biographies 279

Editor Biographies 289

References 291

Index 311