Gay J On The Cross Brgs New Life To Christ’s Story - Believe Out Loud

Contents:

• WAS J GAY?
• CARAVAGG’S QUEER JTHE ITALIAN PATER GAVE CHRISTIANY A REAL MSIAHJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·7 M READ·APR 11, 2021--4SHAREOTTAV LEONI, CHALK PORTRA OF CARAVAGG, C.1621WHEN I WAS GROWG UP CHRISTIAN, NOBODY TOLD ME THE RELIGN TOOK S KEY IMAG OF J OM QUEER PATERS.HOW IRONIC, I’D REALIZE LATER, FOR A RELIGN THAT HATED THE DREAD “GAYS” TO LOVE MICHELANGELO, LEONARDO, ETC. CHRISTIANS LOVED THE MOVIE THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST. THE DIRECTOR, MEL GIBSON, SPOKE OF HIS SPIRATN:“I THK HIS WORK IS BETIFUL. I MEAN ’S VLENT, ’S DARK, ’S SPIRUAL AND ALSO HAS AN ODD WHIMSY OR STRANGENS TO . AND ’S SO REAL LOOKG.”THE ITALIAN PATER CARAVAGG HAD SHOWN CHRISTIANS HOW TO SEE J AS A PHYSIL MAN. IT TOOK A HOMOSEXUAL TO DO THAT?CARAVAGG, “CHRIST AT THE COLUMN” (1607); MEL GIBSON’S “THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST” (2004)I’M LEARNG ONLY NOW ABOUT CARAVAGG’S FLUENCE ON CHRISTIANY.
• GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?
• THE GAYT IMAG OM MICHELANGELO'S MOST FAMO PATG
• J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
• ART THAT DAR: GAY J, WOMAN CHRIST AND MORE BY KTREDGE CHERRY

WAS J GAY?

Care Bia (September 13, 1475 – March 11, 1507), the send son of Pope Alexanr the 6th of Rome, was a Spanish-Italian, homosexual rdal who rigned his church office to bee a ary manr, powerful lord, and a leadg figure the polics of his era. After the Supreme Court's historic lg on gay marriage, seemed like all the proudly homophobic Christians me out of the woodwork to talk about how much they still hate gay people. As a straight Jew, the homophobia amongst J's followers has always stck me as a b of a surprise: Worshippg at the feet of a ripped, hung man, seems at least a ltle homoerotic.

CARAVAGG’S QUEER JTHE ITALIAN PATER GAVE CHRISTIANY A REAL MSIAHJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·7 M READ·APR 11, 2021--4SHAREOTTAV LEONI, CHALK PORTRA OF CARAVAGG, C.1621WHEN I WAS GROWG UP CHRISTIAN, NOBODY TOLD ME THE RELIGN TOOK S KEY IMAG OF J OM QUEER PATERS.HOW IRONIC, I’D REALIZE LATER, FOR A RELIGN THAT HATED THE DREAD “GAYS” TO LOVE MICHELANGELO, LEONARDO, ETC. CHRISTIANS LOVED THE MOVIE THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST. THE DIRECTOR, MEL GIBSON, SPOKE OF HIS SPIRATN:“I THK HIS WORK IS BETIFUL. I MEAN ’S VLENT, ’S DARK, ’S SPIRUAL AND ALSO HAS AN ODD WHIMSY OR STRANGENS TO . AND ’S SO REAL LOOKG.”THE ITALIAN PATER CARAVAGG HAD SHOWN CHRISTIANS HOW TO SEE J AS A PHYSIL MAN. IT TOOK A HOMOSEXUAL TO DO THAT?CARAVAGG, “CHRIST AT THE COLUMN” (1607); MEL GIBSON’S “THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST” (2004)I’M LEARNG ONLY NOW ABOUT CARAVAGG’S FLUENCE ON CHRISTIANY.

But 's J himself who lights up my gaydar like a Christmas tree. Reverend Bob Shore-Goss, an openly gay senr pastor, has wrten several books on the subject, cludg Queerg Christ and J ACTED UP: A Gay and Lbian Manifto. He holds a doctorate gree Comparative Relign om Harvard, and he serv on the Natnal Advisory Board of the Center for Lbian and Gay Studi Relign.

GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?

Oh, and he believ that J was gay.

THE GAYT IMAG OM MICHELANGELO'S MOST FAMO PATG

I got touch wh Reverend Goss, who laid out the Biblil evince and explaed how his theory plays by Flickr er Wag for the World VICE: Was J Christ gay?

Pl, I would say, would probably be scribed as a closeted homosexual today, but they didn't have those words at the was homosexualy perceived J's time?

Now, homoerotic relatnships the ancient world are really mon, pecially the Greek and Roman J himself ever addrs that?

J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

" J says about the fah of the Centurn, who is a homoerotic relatnship, that "there is no greater fah than I've enuntered Israel.

WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

" They're utterg this homoerotic phrase that was uttered by a Centurn an actual homosexual relatnship wh a youth.

But a church of the send century would unrstand that this is a homosexual relatnship and wasn't a big what evince is there the bible of J's homosexualy? But what this has to say is that there was some sort of homoerotic relatnship, a love seems that, like anythg else the Bible, you n draw your own nclns, cludg that J was gay.

ART THAT DAR: GAY J, WOMAN CHRIST AND MORE BY KTREDGE CHERRY

I once had a lbian stunt tell me, "J wasn't gay, he was perfect.

Now what they say about gays is we are trsilly evil and trsilly disorred.

Even evangelils will say that J was perfect so that, orr to be saved for evangelils, you mt be heterosexual to be VICE News: Tears, Lghter, and Triumph for a Lbian Couple the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage CaseBut if J was gay, and he was perfect, then really 's only the gay people that are gog to heaven, right? I want to say that all sexuali are an origal blsg bee we're ma the image of I'm gettg om this the most is that J, as a queer human dividual, uld at least relate to the stggle of gay men—feelg like outsts, havg vlence perpetrated on them for their queerns, whatever may be. Yeah, I'd say that you're absolutely on solid ground wh your if J wasn't gay, I image he'd certaly feel more kship wh the mory of homosexuals than the heteronormative Christians who preach hate.