J as an openly gay man | Michael Re | The Guardian

Contents:

• J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• ART THAT DAR: GAY J, WOMAN CHRIST AND MORE BY KTREDGE CHERRY
• GAY J STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• WAS J GAY?
• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
• GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?
• 'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
• GAY J MEME GENERATOR
• GAY J ANIMATED GIF MAKER
• THE JOURNEY OF A GAY J
• ALL MEM › GAY J
• BLASPHEMO 24 PORTRA ART EXHIB DEPICTS J CHRIST AS A GAY MAN
• 7 REASONS J WAS GAY

J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn. Durg Holy Week many LGBT Christians and their alli fd spiratn “The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn, ” a ntroversial seri of patgs that are newly available as a book. The imag show J as a gay man of today a morn cy.

A surprisgly diverse group of iends jo the gay J on a journey om sufferg to eedom. ” But none has had as much impact as Blanchard’s gay Passn of Christ patgs. A gay J on the cross is tend to broan, not lim how Christ is perceived.

ART THAT DAR: GAY J, WOMAN CHRIST AND MORE BY KTREDGE CHERRY

Every group envisns Christ based on their own ntext, and now there is a gay visn of J, shaped by the polil, enomic and cultural forc of our time.

GAY J STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

The church directly or directly ed the executn of thoands for homosexualy over a perd of 700 years. Blanchard says that their morn unterparts—such as LGBT people murred gay bashgs, driven to suici, or killed by AIDS—were on his md as he pated “J Di. Blanchard’s J don’t look obvly gay.

His sexual orientatn only be clear when he receiv a homoerotic embrace while ascendg to unn wh God. The most recent battle epted this week when Huffgton Post ran my article on the gay Passn of Christ.

WAS J GAY?

Those who were rejected by the church for homosexualy may fd that the gay J wel and unrstands them.

WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

Like the patgs, the book is tled “The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn. Many nmn the gay Passn of Christ patgs as blasphemy, but I see them as a blsg that builds fah and a better society.

GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?

Image: “J Di” by Doug Blanchard, The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn. The most astoundg fdg om the newly disvered lead dic is that J Christ was unambiguoly and openly gay. It seems clear now that this is ls a negative repudiatn of fay and more a posive exhortatn to jo affirmatn of a gay liftyle and is at least one new parable, that of the two young men.

Before, one might have thought that, given Mary's virgy, Joseph's attu was reflectg the ambigui of his stat the fay; but now seems more probable that we have here a classic example of the Frdian triangle: over-posssive mother, hostile father, gay have we known so ltle about all of this before?

The classilly ted Pl, who was himself gay, saw that same-sex activy was imil to the succs of Christiany the highly homophobic societi which he lived.

'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI

that dar to show J as gay or female has been censored. They prent the gay J, the. “In her latt work, Art that Dar: Gay J, Woman Christ, and More, Ktredge Cherry tells the fascatg te stori of her artists who were ritured and nmned for darg to portray a gay J or a feme Christ.

I am grateful to s thor for g art to help unrme heterosexism and homophobia. But Ktredge Cherry’s wise, tenr, and learned mentary lmed my fears and enabled me to behold the stunng bety of the pictns of J-as gay, as black, as the horned god, as a woman — and of his mother a rapturo female partnership. Canon Mallm Boyd, poet, Epispal prit, gay elr, thor of Are You Runng wh me, J?

GAY J MEME GENERATOR

—Toby Johnson, thor of Gay Spirualy and past edor of Whe Crane. After the Supreme Court's historic lg on gay marriage, seemed like all the proudly homophobic Christians me out of the woodwork to talk about how much they still hate gay people. As a straight Jew, the homophobia amongst J's followers has always stck me as a b of a surprise: Worshippg at the feet of a ripped, hung man, seems at least a ltle homoerotic.

But 's J himself who lights up my gaydar like a Christmas tree. Reverend Bob Shore-Goss, an openly gay senr pastor, has wrten several books on the subject, cludg Queerg Christ and J ACTED UP: A Gay and Lbian Manifto. He holds a doctorate gree Comparative Relign om Harvard, and he serv on the Natnal Advisory Board of the Center for Lbian and Gay Studi Relign.

GAY J ANIMATED GIF MAKER

Oh, and he believ that J was gay. I got touch wh Reverend Goss, who laid out the Biblil evince and explaed how his theory plays by Flickr er Wag for the World VICE: Was J Christ gay?

THE JOURNEY OF A GAY J

Pl, I would say, would probably be scribed as a closeted homosexual today, but they didn't have those words at the was homosexualy perceived J's time? Now, homoerotic relatnships the ancient world are really mon, pecially the Greek and Roman J himself ever addrs that?

ALL MEM › GAY J

" J says about the fah of the Centurn, who is a homoerotic relatnship, that "there is no greater fah than I've enuntered Israel. " They're utterg this homoerotic phrase that was uttered by a Centurn an actual homosexual relatnship wh a youth. But a church of the send century would unrstand that this is a homosexual relatnship and wasn't a big what evince is there the bible of J's homosexualy?

BLASPHEMO 24 PORTRA ART EXHIB DEPICTS J CHRIST AS A GAY MAN

But what this has to say is that there was some sort of homoerotic relatnship, a love seems that, like anythg else the Bible, you n draw your own nclns, cludg that J was gay. I once had a lbian stunt tell me, "J wasn't gay, he was perfect.

Now what they say about gays is we are trsilly evil and trsilly disorred.

7 REASONS J WAS GAY

Even evangelils will say that J was perfect so that, orr to be saved for evangelils, you mt be heterosexual to be VICE News: Tears, Lghter, and Triumph for a Lbian Couple the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage CaseBut if J was gay, and he was perfect, then really 's only the gay people that are gog to heaven, right?

I want to say that all sexuali are an origal blsg bee we're ma the image of I'm gettg om this the most is that J, as a queer human dividual, uld at least relate to the stggle of gay men—feelg like outsts, havg vlence perpetrated on them for their queerns, whatever may be.

Yeah, I'd say that you're absolutely on solid ground wh your if J wasn't gay, I image he'd certaly feel more kship wh the mory of homosexuals than the heteronormative Christians who preach hate. And often tim they're vehement about bee they have so much ternalized homophobia, which dit to me that they have those same attractns to the same sex that they need to stamp them out other people. I felt I uld not pe the sufferg of gay and lbian people at the hands of the church, over many that divisive issue a subject for Good Friday?