How Did a Third-Century Catholic Sat Bee a Gay In? Here’s the Homoerotic History of Sat Sebastian

Contents:

• HOW DID A THIRD-CENTURY CATHOLIC SAT BEE A GAY IN? HERE’S THE HOMOEROTIC HISTORY OF SAT SEBASTIAN
• WHEN I ME OUT AS A GAY CATHOLIC, SATS AUGTE AND MONI HELPED ME GROW CLOSER TO MY MOM — AND GOD
• HARRY STYL TO PERFORM ‘REALISTIC’ GAY SEX SCEN NEW FILM
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• ARE THE ST. LOUIS CARDALS READY FOR AN OPENLY GAY PLAYER?
• CORVELL HARRISON-GAYLREL, MSCORVELL HARRISON-GAY

HOW DID A THIRD-CENTURY CATHOLIC SAT BEE A GAY IN? HERE’S THE HOMOEROTIC HISTORY OF SAT SEBASTIAN

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. 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.

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.

WHEN I ME OUT AS A GAY CATHOLIC, SATS AUGTE AND MONI HELPED ME GROW CLOSER TO MY MOM — AND GOD

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.

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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. The wrgs ma reference to such classil gay figur as Adonis and Ganyme.

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How did a third-century Catholic sat bee a ntemporary gay in referenced on everythg om the vers of men’s magaz to art and films and an adopted psdonym by Osr Wil? But who was Sat Sebastian really and how, when, and why did this cur exultatn to the stat of gay in occur? Ined, the Renaissance and Baroque pictns are rooted the Catholic teachgs about the permeabily of sats’ bodi and the ecstasy experienced their munn wh the dive—the pictns were the on to be later embraced by the gay muny who saw their own experienc mirrored Sat Sebastian’s betiful sufferg.

Ecstasy and Agony: Sebastian, Patron Sat of the Gay Communy.

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In the morn era, the popularizatn of Sat Sebastian as an in the gay muny often leads back to Guido Reni’s Martyrdom of St. Reni’s patg was siarly fluential to the famed 20th-century Japane thor Y Mishima; Mishima’s 1949 novel Confsns of a Mask, the book’s adolcent protagonist experienc a homosexual awakeng while gazg at the very same patg.

The referenc to the sat didn’t end there—Mishima, who was himself gay, went so far as to pose as Sat Sebastian a now-famo photographic portra, taken not long before the wrer’s ath by suici 1970.

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The photograph further cemented associatns between the ecstasy and torments of the sat’s martyrdom wh the homosexual experience of persecutn throughout the 20th century. Wil, himself, should be noted, had been exiled Paris, followg a nearly two-year imprisonment at Readg Gaol England for the crime of practicg homosexualy. In the 1970s, Italian artist Luigi Ontani staged a provotive photograph of Sat Sebastian as a gay in.

In the 1976 film Sebastiane, filmmaker Derek Jarman engaged wh the narrative of the sat to explore ti between sexual and spirual ecstasy, through a specifilly homoerotic lens. He nceals the pth of his emotns, experiencg both torments and pleasur privately, a feelg siar to the experience of gay inty for many men the 20th century (and often to this day).

Others have terpreted the arrows piercg the sat’s body as phallic allns and disguised referenc to homosexual sex, while his rope-tied hands n be seen through the lens of sadomasochism.

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Perhaps most ncretely, the story of Sat Sebastian paralleled the experienc and fears of the closeted gay muny—when Sebastian’s ncealed te (Christian) inty was revealed, he was shunned, tormented, and killed by those power, a harrowg tale that mirrored the gay experienc of beg “outed” throughout morn history.

Intertgly, referenc to the sat by gay artists have ntued to shift more recent history. Who would both die om the disease, found solace not the sat’s ecstasy but his earlier medieval associatns wh healg and wardg off the plague, both rporatg referenc to this patron sat of the gay muny to their late artworks. My nfsn to my mom raised a lot of qutns for both, voted as we both were to our fah and aware and fearful as we both were of that fah’s stance on homosexualy.

Was I any ls of a Catholic or a person, any ls a son of God or of my mom bee I was gay? To be gay but not to “act” on my sexualy, to never seek a relatnship of mutual teem and fily—of love?