On October 14, 1998, five thoand people gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capol to mourn the ath of Matthew Shepard, a gay llege stunt who had been...
Contents:
- ROGER CASEMENT: GAY IRISH MARTYR OR VICTIM OF A BRISH FERY?
- SERGI AND BACCH: THE GAY SOLDIERS WHO WERE MA SATS BY THE CHURCH
- DYG TO BE NORMAL: GAY MARTYRS AND THE TRANSFORMATN OF AMERIN SEXUAL POLICS
- SAT SEBASTIAN AS A GAY IN
- DYG TO BE NORMAL: GAY MARTYRS AND THE TRANSFORMATN OF AMERIN SEXUAL POLICS
- GAY HISTORY: MARTYRS AMONG US: DEIFYG MATTHEW SHEPARD, HARVEY MILK + MORE
- THE FOTTEN MASS MURR OF 'ANTI-GAY' MARTYRS
- ANTI-GAY CHURCH PROTTS AT SOLDIERS’ FUNERALS
ROGER CASEMENT: GAY IRISH MARTYR OR VICTIM OF A BRISH FERY?
Abstract. Through an examatn of publicly mourned gay aths Ameri, Brett Ktzsch unters the mon perceptn that LGBT polics and relign have b * gay martyrs *
His wrgs nvced historians John Boswell and Brian Patrick McGuire that Aelred was a gay man, albe one who still disuraged any sexual activy outsi the bounds of marriage.
SERGI AND BACCH: THE GAY SOLDIERS WHO WERE MA SATS BY THE CHURCH
Members of a church say God is punishg U.S. soldiers for fendg a untry that harbors gays, and they brought their msage to the funerals Saturday of two soldiers killed Iraq. * gay martyrs *
Several relig anizatn, s cludg the Natnal Anglin Catholic Church and Integry the Epispal Church the Uned Stat have regnized Aelred as the patron sat of such gay-iendly groups as the Orr of St. An abbot medieval France, Bernard of Clairvz mataed a lengthy personal relatnship wh the archbishop Malachy, acrdg to gay liberatn theologian Richard Cleaver. Boris would go on to hold special signifince for gay Christians bee of his apparently romantic relatnship wh his servant, Gee the Hungarian.
DYG TO BE NORMAL: GAY MARTYRS AND THE TRANSFORMATN OF AMERIN SEXUAL POLICS
This 16th-century Spanish sat was prone to g homoerotic imagery poetry exprsg his love of Christ, most notably his poem "On a Dark Night.
SAT SEBASTIAN AS A GAY IN
By that terpretatn, such scripture as referenc to the disciple reclg upon the bosom of the Lord have spired homoerotic art pictg the relatnship between Christ and John as romantic. This is the view explored Martti Nissen and Kirsi Stjerna's Homoeroticism the Biblil World: A Historil Perspective. The 19th-century Brish subversive scholar was beatified 2010, spe speculatn that he may well have been gay.
Consired the ma patron sat of gays by many, Sebastian was martyred Rome the year 288 on the orrs of Emperor Dcletian. While no tal actually exist providg rmatn about Sebastian's love life or sexual orientatn, the fact so much Renaissance art picts him homoerotic pos monstrat a strong nnectn to LGBT people. Y, the Good Kg Wencls, a sat and a de, also was likely gay.
DYG TO BE NORMAL: GAY MARTYRS AND THE TRANSFORMATN OF AMERIN SEXUAL POLICS
The wrgs ma reference to such classil gay figur as Adonis and Ganyme.
The achievement of legal equaly for gays Ireland 2015, together wh the Uned Kgdom’s recent Brex vote to leave the European Unn, may ocsn a new life after ath for Casement — as the symbol of a uned Ireland. In the aftermath of his executn a s-long bate over the thenticy of the diari leadg participants the bate are two bgraphers: Jefey Dudgeon, who believ that the diari are genue and that Casement was a homosexual, and Ang Mchell, who thks that the diari were fed and that Casement’s sexual orientatn remas an open qutn.
GAY HISTORY: MARTYRS AMONG US: DEIFYG MATTHEW SHEPARD, HARVEY MILK + MORE
Casement’s path to polil remptn was laid by the Gay Liberatn movement. In 1981, he challenged Northern Ireland’s crimalisatn of homosexual acts between nsentg adult men a se agast the Uned Kgdom brought before the European Court of Human Rights.
The urt led that the law at issue vlated the European Conventn of Human Rights, and this cisn prompted the Brish ernment 1982 to issue an Orr Council that crimalised homosexual acts between adult men Northern Ireland; England, Wal, and Stland had already passed siar laws.
THE FOTTEN MASS MURR OF 'ANTI-GAY' MARTYRS
In 1993 the Irish parliament to the south also crimalised male homosexualy orr to brg the Republic’s law to pliance wh the European Conventn of Human Rights. Casement has been rcated by an extraordary batn of velopments the Republic of Ireland and the Uned Kgdom, not jt the relative toleratn of homosexualy, but the lurch toward Brex a popular referendum that found 52% of UK voters favour and 48% opposed. In reprentg Casement as a man of ntradictns, bgraphers have asssed him the terms of nflicts Irish society that persisted long after his ath: the sectarian divi between Prottants and Catholics, the troubl between Ireland and Bra, and the discrimatn agast male homosexuals enforced by relign and law.
ANTI-GAY CHURCH PROTTS AT SOLDIERS’ FUNERALS
Christiany’s history of discrimatn agast the gay muny is wily known, and the irratnal aversn on the part of Christians towards same-sex relatnships and marriage is unfortunate, to say the least. They were origally scribed as erastai, meang lovers, ditg they were engaged an erotic homosexual relatnship. What is clear, however, is that the two sats were fact venerated for centuri startg the 5th century, and their close relatnship has spired many gay Christians, who’ve now taken them as the patron figur of homosexualy Christian non.