Two AI voices discuss my articles Laws that Punish Love: A History, 1600 Years of Christian Persecution of Queers and How Homophobia Infected the World Pip: Rainbow messenger, where the history is long, the laws are older, and the injustice has been hiding in plain sight for about sixteen centuries. Mara: Today we’re following shoktiContinue reading “Podcast Episode: History Of Anti-Queer Persecution”
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Sex in the Temples
Excerpt from ‘The female experience and the nature of the divine’ by Judith Ochshorn, 1981 What seems to have been the case in the ancient Near East, then, for most of the period from the third to the first millennium, is that both women and men performed sacred sexual rites in the service of femaleContinue reading “Sex in the Temples”
Lamentations 5 13
There are many books out there discussing the various references to homosexuality in the Bible – Sodom & Gomorrah gay rapists, prohibitions in Leviticus, queer temple priests in Kings, love between David & Jonathon and Ruth & Naomi, Jesus on eunuchs, Jesus and the Centurion’s Boy, the Beloved Disciple, Paul wailing about pagan sex ritesContinue reading “Lamentations 5 13”
Jesus Had A Boyfriend
“Certainly, the most controversial same-sex couple in the Christian tradition comprised Jesus and… the beloved disciple. The relationship between them was often depicted in subsequent art and literature as intimate, if not erotic.” John Boswell, historian “For centuries, the beloved disciple has remained a powerful metaphor for homoerotic friendship and love, and even today gay menContinue reading “Jesus Had A Boyfriend”
