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

Contents:

• SAT SEBASTIAN AS A GAY IN
• HOW DID A THIRD-CENTURY CATHOLIC SAT BEE A GAY IN? HERE’S THE HOMOEROTIC HISTORY OF SAT SEBASTIAN
• IS SEBASTIAN GAY?
• IS SEBASTIAN CROFT GAY? WHO IS HE DATG NOW?
• IS GUY SEBASTIAN GAY?

SAT SEBASTIAN AS A GAY IN

In more recent terpretatns, the Christian fixatn wh the sirable bodi of s sats and the permeable boundari between the bodily flh and the dive have been seen as homoerotic or queer.

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

In 1976, Derek Jarman appropriated the tradn story of Sat Sebastian through a queer lens his homoerotic historil thriller film Sebastiane. Brish pater Keh Vghan (1912–1977) also ma e of the myth of Sat Sebastian to exprs and explore his homosexual sire, a mon theme throughout his work. 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?

IS SEBASTIAN GAY?

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. 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.

IS SEBASTIAN CROFT GAY? WHO IS HE DATG NOW?

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. 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.

IS GUY SEBASTIAN GAY?

In the 1970s, Italian artist Luigi Ontani staged a provotive photograph of Sat Sebastian as a gay in.