Marty Raney’s anti-gay, transphobic song is still onle as Homtead Rcue: Ranch premier – realy blurred

Contents:

• ADAM AND STEVE: QUEER ARTISTS REPURPOSE GENIS AS A GAY LOVE STORY
• MARTY RANEY’S ANTI-GAY, TRANSPHOBIC SONG IS STILL ONLE AS HOMTEAD RCUE: RANCH PREMIER
• DONNA SUMMER DENIED ANTI-GAY REMARKS AND HIV/AIDS STATEMENTS IN 1989 ACT UP LETTER
• LETTER SHOWS DONNA SUMMER DEFENDG HERSELF AGAST ALLEGED ANTI-GAY COMMENTS

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

By “queerg” Genis wh their mic, Dorian Electra and Lil Nas X repurposed the Adam and Eve dynamic, turng to a gay love story.

For Dorian Electra’s “Adam and Steve”, the symbolism is staed glass and angels, paired wh even more homoerotic tensy. To try to unrstand this phenomenon, I spoke to queer members of my muny about the way gayns was troduced to them durg their relig upbrgg.

” However, her earlit memory pertag to homosexualy was of a amed py of ‘The Fay: a Proclamatn to the World’ that hung her childhood kchen: “It danced around the subject, but ma s pot by sayg thgs like ‘marriage between a man and woman is ordaed by god’ or ‘genr is an sential characteristic of dividual premortal, mortal and eternal inty and purpose.

MARTY RANEY’S ANTI-GAY, TRANSPHOBIC SONG IS STILL ONLE AS HOMTEAD RCUE: RANCH PREMIER

In some s, there was no need for relig lears to explicly punish or ll out gayns: this job was outsourced to other children. Homophob love to e the phrase “It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” to assert that the Bible ndon only heterosexual relatnships, and prohibs same-sex on.

DONNA SUMMER DENIED ANTI-GAY REMARKS AND HIV/AIDS STATEMENTS IN 1989 ACT UP LETTER

Lil Nas X has referenced his relig trma other songs ( “Sun Go Down, ” he sgs about how at a younger age he prayed to God to take his gayns om him) and terviews. Raised to believe that homosexualy was unacceptable and that gay people were doomed to go to Hell, the vio’s nouement reclaims this fate: if Gay people n’t live on Earth or ascend to Heaven, they’ll jt be gay Hell, thank you very much. Dorian Electra’s “Adam & Steve” also subverts the ia that gay people are herently damned by reimagg whout the hierarchil, toxic heterosexualy prent Genis.

LETTER SHOWS DONNA SUMMER DEFENDG HERSELF AGAST ALLEGED ANTI-GAY COMMENTS

Dorian Electra mak clear that there is nothg sful or shameful about this existence—Adam & Steve’s love is pure nocence, while homophobia is a s troduced when they eat the u:.

Luc, a gay man who was raised Evangelil and stggled wh his sexualy through his thirti, talked to me about the level of shame he experienced his relig upbrgg. His church brought speakers to teach about homosexualy beg a s, and ved a “reformed” homosexual member of the church to speak about renouncg his homosexualy.

The gree of fearmongerg and shame was so tense than when, at the age of 12 or 13, a youth pastor tected somethg Luc and “laid hands on him” to “st the mon of homosexualy” om him, Luc didn’t even nsir that this was an asslt. My terviewe spoke of lastg damage om homosexualy and genr role fns their relig upbrggs, and this sense of beg a mistake or beg herently “wrong”—for beg queer, for drsg wrong or for not performg a genr role as the church fed —lgered even as they attempted to unravel as adults. 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.

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.

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.

Whoever wrote the slogan was probably gog for a snappier take on "If God had wanted homosexuals, he would have created Adam and Freddy, " which was scrawled by a San Francis graffi artist 1970 and parroted by anti-gay activist Ana Bryant (who swapped out "Freddy" for "Bce") People magaze if you were to gus who first gave the phrase wir natnal exposure, you'd probably get right on the first or send try: the late televangelist Jerry Falwell, of "Gays Csed 9/11" fame.

"HOMOSEXUALITY: Adam and STEVE" was a chapter tle Michael Yosef's 1986 book "Leadg the Way: The Church or Culture?

Alpert intified as havg bee "an important slogan for the antigay movement, " notg s prence on plards, bumper stickers and televisn.

"Then, The Most Fabulo Story Ever Told, a 1998 play by the openly gay playwright Pl Rudnick, God do make Adam and Steve—as well as a lbian uple named Jane and Mabel. "Craig Chter was one such gay person raised a relig fay, and around the time that The Most Fabulo Story appeared, he went unrver at an "ex-gay" mp orr to wre a screenplay about the gay nversn movement.

" Chter remembers filmg the gay weddg sequence 2004: "It was this sad, poignant, kd of sweet day on set, bee was a fantasy sequence.

When an Indiana church put up such a sign 2013, lols spoke up Unntown, Pennsylvania, Daniel Riggs owns a photography pany lled Adam & Steve, which specializ gay weddgs and engagements.

if ur argument for beg gay is "Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" then u need to Adam and leave— angie (@cumpleted) June 29, 2015. It popped up this week lol news broadsts, gaspg newspaper op-eds, rants om pastors, even at New York's Pri Para, on a sign belongg to an orthodox Jewish group that oppos gay major media outlets, the phrase surfac jt as often as an emblem of a bygone era.