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===Since 1981=== [[File:Folleterre Faerie Sanctuary.jpeg|thumb|right|The Folleterre Faerie Sanctuary in France]] The first Faerie gathering in Australia was held in January 1981, at Tony Newman's Whole Earth Dream Farm near Ourimbah (established in 1974), inspired by the ''[[RFD (magazine)|RFD]]'' reporting of the second Faerie gathering (in Colorado), and held in conjunction with Sydney's Gay Men's Rap, although this first gathering did not generate any ongoing Faerie activity. A subsequent and unconnected Faerie gathering was held on 9β12 April 1982, at Mandala, a gay spiritual commune established near Uki in Northern NSW in 1974 by David Johnstone. This second gathering included Faeries who had attended the second and third gatherings in the United States, and led to continued growth of the Radical Faeries in Australia, and repeated attempts to establish Faerie communes, such as Common Ground (Clarence River Valley), and eventually the ongoing commune Faerieland, near Nimbin, NSW. Guided by Mica Kindman, Lloyd Fair, Cass Brayton, and Will Roscoe, the San Francisco Faerie Circle had formed a non-profit corporation under the name of NOMENUS (varyingly interpreted as "No Men Us", "No Menace", and "No Menus"), supported by Hay. They raised enough money to put a down payment on some land from a 1983 gathering in [[Napa County, California|Napa]], however decided against forming a self-sufficient community, instead choosing to purchase a smaller piece of land that could be stationed by a few caretakers and which could house regular gatherings.{{sfn|Timmons|1990|pp=288–289}} In 1987 they purchased Magdalene Farm – an 80-acre property near [[Grant's Pass, Oregon]] – from George Jalbert, who had unsuccessfully hoped to establish his own rural gay commune there over the preceding decade.{{sfn|Timmons|1990|p=290}} Throughout the 1980s the Radical Faerie movement had spread out from the United States and had gatherings in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Italy,{{sfn|Timmons|1990|p=250}} as well as Folleterre in France. [[Black Leather Wings]] is an organization for spiritual gay [[Leather subculture|leather folk]] affiliated with the Radical Faeries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://duskpeterson.com/leatherculture/spirituality/organizations.htm |title=Leather Spirituality Organizations |first=Dusk |last=Peterson |website=Transcend |access-date=2018-06-23}}</ref> The [[San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley]] includes bronze boot prints that honor 28 people important to the local leather communities, including [[Mark Thompson (author)|Mark Thompson]], a co-founder of Black Leather Wings, and Alexis Sorel, a Black Leather Wings member.<ref name="artandarchitecture-sf1">[http://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/ringold-alleys-leather-memoir.html Ringold Alley ''Leather Memoir'']</ref><ref name="Jewish">{{cite news|last=Paull |first=Laura |url=https://www.jweekly.com/2018/06/21/honoring-gay-leather-culture-with-art-installation-in-soma-alleyway/ |title=Honoring gay leather culture with art installation in SoMa alleyway β J |newspaper=J |date=21 June 2018 |publisher=Jweekly.com |access-date=2018-06-23}}</ref>
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