Adam and Steve: Queer artists repurpose Genis as a gay love story

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The Bible scrib Eve as beg created om Adam’s rib. Eve, therefore, would have been a clone of Adam. So were Adam and Eve gay?

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HOMOSEXUALY AND THE BIBLIL GENIS: WERE ADAM AND EVE GAY?

How a tired homophobic tchphrase was reclaimed—and changed forever—by the gay rights movement. * gay adam eve *

At 16, Craig Chter fell love wh a boy his suburban Dallas was the early 1980s—hardly a hopeful time for gay acceptance the South—and Chter still remembers what his pastor told him when he found out about the doomed love: "God ma Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

"There were startg to be gay characters on televisn. And New York and the gay agendas. He's now a filmmaker; the first movie he wrote was the gay romantic edy Adam & s, the right-wg fight to keep gay upl om gettg married—which culmated feat wh last Friday's Supreme Court cisn—has returned aga and aga to that sgle tchphrase: "God ma Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

ADAM AND STEVE: QUEER ARTISTS REPURPOSE GENIS AS A GAY LOVE STORY

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) But there's a lot packed to such a succct homophobic mantra: God.

ADAM AND EVE: A RATNAL ARGUMENT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE?

The first known appearance of "Adam and Steve" me 1977, what would bee s natural habat: a picket sign at an anti-gay rally. This particular prott brought 15, 000 "pro-fay" spectators to an arena Hoton, where burgeong Relig Right ins like Phyllis Schlafly and Natnal Right to Life Commtee founr Mildred Jefferson railed agast homosexualy, abortn and the Natnal Women's Conference happeng five away.

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