Ishtar was goddess of the tavern and patroness of the prostitutes. She had always been known as the one who broke down barriers. She came through New York, the gateway to America, for that very purpose. Her re-entrance into American culture would manifest at the Stonewall Inn, where the three elements of the goddess would converge: the gate, the alehouse and the prostitute. In fact, what made Stonewall unique from other New York City bars was the presence of male prostitutes, sex workers and transvestites. This would become her "holy temple."

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The return of the goddess, Ishtar, into American culture began with the sexual revolution but it climaxed in a single event which would forever alter the values of the realm of sexuality, marriage, family and gender. It would be known as "Stonewall." In today's podcast we will talk about what has become "PRIDE" month, an event commemorated every year in nearly every part of the globe. How did a fringe uprising in the summer of 1969 become a global movement?

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Ishtar's sorcery involved the transforming of men into women and women into men. Her temple priests embraced castration as an attempt to rid themselves of the characteristics of the gender in which they were born. These priests were the transsexuals of the ancient world. We should not be surprised that with the rejection of Christianity by the ruling elites, a door would be opened for the resurrection of transsexuality and transgenderism in mainstream American culture.

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