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Let's Hear It For Gay Jesus!

In April, I posted about a Jesus of Colour and in May, about a Female Jesus. In this Pride month of June though, as promised, it's out of the frying pan and into the fire!

If the Divine reflects all of its creation and all its creation may legitimately see themselves in the Divine, then why not a Gay Jesus? Liberal Christians who have revised their views on homosexuality may be able to accept such imagery (although part of me does wonder), but for sure Conservative Christians would regard this as blasphemous heresy.

Yet, coded imagery of a Gay Jesus has long been part of Christianity, thanks to the Gospel of John. Who hasn't heard of the Beloved Disciple, "the disciple whom Jesus loved," the one who reclined beside Jesus at the Last Supper with his head on Christ's shoulder, chest or even his lap in some versions? This has fueled a lot of homoerotic art over the centuries, enhanced by suggestively-placed scrolls and breadsticks.

And it has resulted in at least one play: Corpus Christi (1997) by gay playwright Terrence McNally. Rarely staged because of threats and protests, the play was also the subject of a 2011 documentary called Corpus Christi: Playing With Redemption. I've read the play and, apart from its gay premise, I thought it was pretty tame and not one of McNally's best. Quite frankly, I could have written a much more incendiary version, LOL! I've never seen the documentary, but would love to.

There are many Christians, of course, who get freaked out at the idea that Jesus even had a heterosexual orientation. Remember the outrage over the movie The Last Temptation of Christ (1998) which portrayed Jesus contemplating a life of marriage and children? No, no, no -- no S-E-X for Jesus!

The deeply puritanical and conflicted nature of such attitudes is too obvious for words. Christianity's sexual hangups have long been its dark shadow side, manifesting themselves in all sorts of twisted and even evil ways.

Anyway, if an historical Jesus did exist, I hope he had a healthy sex life of whatever persuasion. 

Oh, and since I'm apparently going to Hell anyway, let me just leave you with one final meme --

Queer Conspiracy Theories

(1) Gay Space Lasers

(2) Homosexual Mists

(3) True Purpose of the Moon Landing

 weaver-z

The weirdest guy I ever met in a church was this boy who referred to “Buzz Aldrin and his husband” going to the moon. I was completely baffled, and when I asked if he’d misspoken, he got really angry and accused me of being deliberately ignorant of the facts. It turned out that he was somehow comvinced that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were married. It took five Wikipedia articles to convince him otherwise.

 rockshitty

The moon landing was fake: tired, passé, heard it before

The moon landing was an elaborate marriage proposal: fresh! sexy! I’m going to be thinking about this for months!

 weaver-z

Romcom where two dudes in the 1960s fall in love and come up with an elaborate plan to become astronauts to get married in space because gay marriage is illegal everywhere but it can’t be illegal on the moon

 explorerrowan

Might make things a little awkward for Mike Collins.

 soaringsearingphoenix

He was the officiator

 explorerrowan

This is an excellent take. He officiated in orbit, and the landing was their Honey Moon.

 cipheramnesia

Oh my god they were moon mates.

 lauraannegilman

Everyone involved in the making of this pun should go to their rooms to think about what they’ve done.

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Gender Identity Is Today's Battleground

Sexual orientation and gender identity have always been central issues in the LGBTQ+ community. Conceptually, they are not the same thing, nor are they interchangeable. The modern Pride movement's first priority for overcoming hate and obtaining rights focused primarily on sexual orientation issues. We have been quite successful in that regard, although of course there is still more work to be done and we must continue to be vigilant in protection of these hard-won rights.

Today, however, the most urgent focus for our community's struggle concerns gender identity issues -- transgender rights, gender fluidity, and rejection of the traditionally-understood gender binary model. Unfortunately, these issues split not only mainstream secular and religious society, but also our own gay male and lesbian communities, feminist community and women's spirituality community.

EVERYBODY has a lot to learn and it is distressing to me that there is so much transphobia and gender bigotry within all our communities. However, I firmly believe that we must be supportive and accepting of those on the front lines of the gender identity struggle. They will take our understanding of diversity and freedom to the next level.

Some day, lipstick colour will be the only issue that matters!

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