[6] The movement led to the formation of conferences, consciousness raising groups, men's centers, and other resources across the United States.
Some feminist scholars in political opposition to the movement have argued[8][9] that racism within American society has emasculated non-white men.
[10] Within this ideological framework black men are presented as hyper-sexual to an animalistic degree and are compared to animals, predators and beasts because of this.
Author Margo Adair, who attended the twelfth gathering in 1987, wrote that she found the atmosphere strangely different than anything she had previously experienced.
It is a pro-feminist community and was created as a healthy and safe space for discussion on how traditional gender roles and masculinity hurts men.
[15]: 57 The Radical Faeries were organized in California in 1979 by gay activists wanting to create an alternative to being assimilated into mainstream men's culture.