A fantasy scene featuring Jesus and Mary making love, from Martin Scorsese's film The Last Temptation Of Christ, caused controversy in 1989, and DH Lawrence's novella The Escaped Cock (1929) also depicts Jesus and Mary's sexual relationship. Jesus has previously been depicted as gay in two films (Matthias von Fistenberg's Passio, 2007; Ed D Louie's He, 1974), a poem (James Kirkup's The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name, 1976), a lithograph (Enrique Chagoya's The Misadventures Of The Romantic Cannibals, 2003), a play (Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi, 1998), and a magazine illustration (Johnny Correa's Resurrection, in The Insurgent, 2006).
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Thanks for this. I share your interest in gay Jesus art, so-called blasphemy and the conflict between freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
Unfortunately Bayona is not the first artist to have his or her art censored for depicting a queer Christ. I wrote the stories of 11 such artists in my book “Art That Dares: Gay Jesus, Woman Christ, and More.”
I also write about gay Jesus art (and other queer spiritual art) at the Jesus in Love Blog on LGBT spirituality and the arts. I'm happy to connect with you.
Art That Dares looks interesting. I've ordered a copy, so I'll let you know what I think after I've read it.
Mat.
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