blue feather

blue feather – the name of the Society for Creative Anachronism Clan or Household devoted to the study of homosexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance and to facilitating the socializing of the SCA’s gay, lesbian, and bisexual members. The erroneous story is that blue feathers were worn in the hair of female Italian trubadours, as an indication that it was a symbol of a preference for the “gentler sex,” and that this information was found in Judy Grahn’s Another Mother Tongue. This is manifestly untrue, as the information never appeared in any copy of Ms. Grahn’s book, and we have it on very good authority (of certain people who were at the founding of the Clan) that the symbol was chosen specifically because it had no known associations. The symbol of the blue feather has now moved outside of the SCA. Gay termin.