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Contents:
- SAT SEBASTIAN AS A GAY IN
- SAT SEBASTIAN: HISTORY’S FIRST GAY IN?
- HOW DID A THIRD-CENTURY CATHOLIC SAT BEE A GAY IN? HERE’S THE HOMOEROTIC HISTORY OF SAT SEBASTIAN
- IS SEBASTIAN GAY?
- F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL
- SAN SEBASTIAN GAY MAP
- IS JOHN SEBASTIAN GAY?
- IS GUY SEBASTIAN GAY?
SAT SEBASTIAN AS A GAY IN
Sat Sebastian has been lled history's first gay in and the patron sat of homosexuals. He was an early Christian martyr. Countls artworks show him as a near-naked young man beg shot wh arrows. Nothg is known about his love life, so his populary wh gay men is based partly on the way he looks. Many gay men also intify wh his sufferg and his experience of beg attacked on relig grounds. Sebastian’s feast day is Jan. 20. * sebastian gay *
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. 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. Sat Sebastian has been lled history’s first gay in and the patron sat of homosexualy. Nothg is known about Sebastian’s love life, so his long-standg populary wh gay men is partly based on the way he looks and the sheer sensualy of his portrayals.
SAT SEBASTIAN: HISTORY’S FIRST GAY IN?
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Many gay men also intify wh his sufferg and his experience of beg attacked on relig grounds. In addn to his longstandg but unofficial stat as patron sat of gay men, Sebastian is a patron sat of soldiers, archers and athlet. Richard “Ric” Stott, a gay Methodist mister and artist Bra, e Sebastian om standard inography by prentg him as a proud black man.
He portrays Sebastian as Ji Maulay, a gay Nigerian prit who who set up a church Nigeria for LGBTQ people unr dangero circumstanc and now misters London through Hoe of Rabow. “St Sebastian is often seen as an inic gay figure and, the Wtern art tradn, as a young whe man – patg him this way seeks to liberate the the ia of St Sebastian om such a narrow lens.
HOW DID A THIRD-CENTURY CATHOLIC SAT BEE A GAY IN? HERE’S THE HOMOEROTIC HISTORY OF SAT SEBASTIAN
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For more on Stott, see the prev article “Gay artist pats ‘Intimacy wh Christ’: Richard Stott reflects on sensual spirualy.
Prevly O’Connell sculpted a life-size statue of Sebastian and ma a film of his dramatic teractns wh the figure to make a strong statement agast homophobic vlence a performance art piece for All Sats Day.
For the whole lany and more , see my prev post New art film highlights queer sats, Sebastian and homophobic vlence for All Sats Day.
IS SEBASTIAN GAY?
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Sebastian also appears wh a rabow halo as a “wrathful protector sat” O’Connell’s “Triptych for the 49, ” a tribute to the people killed by a mass shooter at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida. Sebastian appears wh rehg clary a 2020 artwork by Andrew Frhour, a New Hampshire artist and gay Epispalian.
In a break wh tradnal reprentatns of Sebastian, he is liberately NOT beg martyred a 2000 patg by gay Los Angel Filipo Amerin artist Davidd Batalon. He bends the “arrows” the fence downward, reprentg the survival of gay men durg the AIDS panmic.
Keh Vghan (1912-1977) was a gay Brish artist who was troubled by his sexual orientatn. Gay Mexin artist Felix d’Eon prents the sat wh brown sk and a chunky, sensuo body “The Martyrdom of Sat Sebastian. (News alert: A nservative Catholic webse acced Q Spir of promotg “gay porn” bee of of the art discsed this article.
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Sat Sebastian is a favore subject of many ntemporary gay artists, cludg Tony De Carlo (1956-2014). “It wasn’t until the year 2001 when I went to a Catholic store New Mexi, picked up a pewter statue of Sat Sebastian, and saw a label on the bottom that said ‘Patron Sat of Homosexuals.
“Sat Sebastian and Matt Shepard Juxtaposed” by JR Leveroni par Sebastian’s martyrdom wh the killg of a ntemporary gay martyr, Matthew Shepard (1976-1998).
SAN SEBASTIAN GAY MAP
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Shepard was a stunt at the Universy of Wyomg when he was btally beaten and left to die by two men who later claimed that they were driven temporarily sane by “gay panic. Patg a Cubist style, he portrays the sufferg gay martyrs a subdued way wh barely a trace of blood. Gay New Zealand artist Christopher Olwage pated a self-portra as Sebastian for his “Ecce Homo” exhib vg viewers to nsir the possibily of a gay J.
IS JOHN SEBASTIAN GAY?
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California gay artist Rick Herold plac Sat Sebastian agast a lorful, rtoon-like backdrop remiscent of gay artist / activist Keh Harg, a gay artist who showed Sat Sebastian his later work. Herold me out as gay and turned to patg male nus and homoeroti. As a gay Pop artist and activist, Harg addrsed homosexualy and AIDS his artwork.
IS GUY SEBASTIAN GAY?
An important film bgraphy for many gay men today is “Sebastiane, ” directed by Brish pennt filmmaker Derek Jarman. The Lat-language 1976 film was ntroversial for s homoeroticism and is nsired a landmark of LGBTQ cema.
A moment of sexual awakeng is given visual form “Peter Hujar Dreamg” by gay artist David Wojnarowicz. Sat Sebastian: The Homoerotic Patron of Gay Men (Artwork I Love Blog).