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Contents:

• 'CORP CHRISTI'; GAY J PLAY, THE BODY OF CHRIST, BROKEN FOR ME
• 'CORP CHRISTI: PLAYG WH REMPTN,' GAY J DOCUMENTARY, PROTTED BY CATHOLICS (VIDEO)
• WATCH: TRAILER FOR NEW DOCUMENTARY ON CONTROVERSIAL GAY J PLAY ‘CORP CHRISTI’
• DOC ABOUT “GAY J” PLAY CORP CHRISTI ATTACKED BY CHRISTIAN GROUPS
• GAY J PLAY HEAD TO FORT WORTH STAGE
• GAY J PLAY CHARGED WH BLASPHEMY GREECE
• GAY J PLAY STIRRG UP CONTROVERSY SYDNEY
• WAS J GAY?
• “GAY JESUS” COMING TO BROADWAY
• THE JOURNEY OF A GAY J
• 'GAY J' PLAY CONMNED BY ATRALIAN CHURCH LEARS
• TEXAS TOWN CROSS OVER PLAY'S 'GAY' CHRIST
• NETFLIX UNR FIRE FOR PICTG J AS GAY NEW CHRISTMAS MOVIE
• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

'CORP CHRISTI'; GAY J PLAY, THE BODY OF CHRIST, BROKEN FOR ME

I was hidg that I was gay, and was ma abundantly clear there was no way I was gog to heaven. That was about the time that the play "Corp Christi" me to my "Corp Christi, " playwright Terrence McNally reimag J as a gay man growg up 1950s Texas. The spectacle drowned out the play's central msage: that the church should be a place where all are weled, cludg gays and 2006, I lnched a new productn of the play.

Our troupe was takg the kd and powerful words of Scripture to dienc around the world through the very same "gay J play" that so many had shed to nounce as productn spired a documentary, "Corp Christi: Playg Wh Remptn, " which chronicl the journey of the 108 Productns st and crew. Yet also asks two central qutns: Where do gay men and women belong at the table of spirualy?

'CORP CHRISTI: PLAYG WH REMPTN,' GAY J DOCUMENTARY, PROTTED BY CATHOLICS (VIDEO)

The play's premise is as ntroversial today as was at then: What if J were gay? "The play is a re-tellg of Christ's life and Passn a vobulary that mak more accsible to gay men and women who had prevly been exclud om any place his story or the Christian religns, " McNally told BroadwayWorld. The film follows 108 Productns' revival of Terrence Mally's play Corp Christi, a retellg of the story of J wh the msiah picted as a gay man 1950s Texas.

WATCH: TRAILER FOR NEW DOCUMENTARY ON CONTROVERSIAL GAY J PLAY ‘CORP CHRISTI’

Sce the play's New York but 1998, has garnered much prott and for those of you homophob who are too lazy to leave the hoe to prott the film, a Catholic group, Ameri Needs Fatima, has ma easy for you.

DOC ABOUT “GAY J” PLAY CORP CHRISTI ATTACKED BY CHRISTIAN GROUPS

Go to this webse, and you will fd a form letter prottg the "blasphemo homosexual play. To portray Him as a homosexual, or even to suate , is an unspeakable blasphemy which I reject wh all my the play's proponents expla how this gay J play is rather timely, nsirg the LGBT bullyg issu natnwi. "Our tour aims to change the story on relig bullyg and homophobia all ag and walks of life, by teachg our dienc to love themselv for who they are, " Jam Brandon, 108 Productns -founr and an actor the play, said statement.

"Corp Christi, " Terrence McNally's 1998 play about a gay J Christ, holds a special place gay theater history not only for s subject matter but for the protts and relig right outrage that the play sparked (and ntu to spark) across the untry.

We reported on Corp Christi: Playg wh Remptn—the new documentary about Terrence McNally’s ntroversial play pictg J as a gay man 1950s Texas—and s upg April 29 premiere at San Francis’s famed Castro Theatre.

GAY J PLAY HEAD TO FORT WORTH STAGE

And hontly, don’t pict Christ as a liar, thief or murrer—jt gay.

GAY J PLAY CHARGED WH BLASPHEMY GREECE

We don’t see what the big fs is about suggtg J might be gay, anyway. The gay J play is back on!

GAY J PLAY STIRRG UP CONTROVERSY SYDNEY

Otte said he is a gay Christian and chose the play to help other gay youths who may be stgglg wh their fah.

WAS J GAY?

"Wrten 1997 and first staged New York 1998, the play picts J and the Apostl as gay men livg morn-day Texas. In the play, Judas betrays J bee of sexual jealoy, and J admisters gay marriage between two apostl. “Pro-fay” and relig groups are censed over the Terrence McNally play Corp Christi, which is set to open Sydney which featur a gay J Christ who is sced by Judas, and who performs a same-sex marriage for two of his apostl.

The Sydney Morng Herald reports: “The Anglin Bishop of South Sydney, Robert Forsyth, qutned the tegry of Corp Christi and exprsed his outrage at the ‘unhistoril and unte' pictn of the son of God and some of his discipl as homosexual.

Kathy Griff to Serve as Hosts on Gayt Airle Flight Ever [tr]. 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.

“GAY JESUS” COMING TO BROADWAY

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.

THE JOURNEY OF A GAY J

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.

Oh, and he believ that J was gay.

'GAY J' PLAY CONMNED BY ATRALIAN CHURCH LEARS

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?

TEXAS TOWN CROSS OVER PLAY'S 'GAY' CHRIST

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

" 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.

NETFLIX UNR FIRE FOR PICTG J AS GAY NEW CHRISTMAS MOVIE

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?

WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

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. And often tim they're vehement about bee they have so much ternalized homophobia, which dit to me that they have those same attractns to the same sex that they need to stamp them out other people. “GAY JESUS” COMING TO BROADWAY – Catholic League.

“GAY JESUS” COMING TO BROADWAY. Could J have been gay?

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

I've played the central role of Joshua Terrence McNally's gay passn play Corp Christi for the past ne years now.

(Part of Facebook's gay algorhm, I'm gusg? " This is the foundatn of most of the emails I receive on a daily basis, the sner beg me, the s beg my homosexualy. I went to Father Gee the next week to ask him for clary, and that's when he told me that J didn't approve of homosexualy, and that if you were homosexual, you were gog to hell.

I didn't know I was gay at the time -- fact, I didn't really even unrstand what "homosexual" meant -- but my heart that sentiment felt false. In retrospect I n see that my subnsc self, who had not yet alt wh his gay inty, felt ostracized om the only muny he'd ever felt a sense of belongg to.