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IN ‘KISS OF THE RABB GOD,’ CHA’S PATRON SAT OF GAY LOVERS TAK CENTER STAGE
Andrew Thomas Huang has a plited relatnship wh Che-Amerin filmmaker grew up a nservative Christian muny that nsired homosexualy a psychologil afflictn. When he me out as gay, someone even phed nversn was one more battle for Huang, who spent his childhood years a predomantly whe suburb of Los Angel, where he not only had to navigate beg a racial mory, but also overe the emotnal and spirual shame of beg no longer intifi as Christian, but his latt short film, Kiss of the Rabb God, he a spirual, if not relig, in to e to terms wh his sexualy. / Photo: Courty of the artistThe rult was Kiss of the Rabb God, a highly stylized tale of a gay Che-Amerin’s sexual awakeng, bed wh Che mythology.
”(Read more: A Che mother’s letter to her gay dghter)Part of Huang’s goal wh the film was to honor his parents’ experience. / Photo: Courty of the artistThe tular Rabb God appears as Matt, burnt out om work, is liftg heavy box a smoky peak exhstn, the rtrant’s doors flg open, and a myster handsome figure wh fiery red hair is Huang’s terpretatn of the Rabb God, a y om Che mythology who is said to protect gay Jeff Chen plays the tular y “Kiss of the Rabb God. ” / Photo: Courty of the artistHuang was spired to create a film around the character after a trip to Mexi Cy, where he learned about Xōchipilli, the Aztec god of flowers and patron sat of gay lovers.
SIMPLE & GAYFORWARD
“He’s there for all the gay Asian boys who never thought they were worth anythg. ” / Photo: Courty of the artist“Sex has always been a se of liberatn for queer people, ” Huang says, “but let’s be hont, has mostly been for whe, cis, gay men.
(Read more: Snapshots om Taiwan’s first mass gay weddg)He rells the biblil story of Abraham and Isaac, and how was Abraham’s humany that transformed a wrathful God to a merciful one. “If Tu’er Shen is a real god, then I, as a gay, Asian, Che person have the right to revent this god as queer love. ” In an terview wh TIME later that year, he said he had been tght om a young age that homosexualy “is never gog to be O.