From Philadelphia Gay News, 1976

the beloved | the betrayer

-@ghostsmp3

sooo when are you dropping the links. to texts about religion and sexuality and transgression

closet devotions by richard rambuss

the man jesus loved by theodore w. jennings, jr

jonathan loved david by tom horner

the sex lives of saints by virginia burrus

toward a theology of eros

i also recommend the essay "gendering jesus crucified" by richard c. trexler that you can find here & richard rambuss' essay "pleasure and devotion: the body of jesus and seventeenth-century religious lyric" in queering the renaissance

Archangel Michael through Art History

Hans Memling, c.1466-1473 Juan de la Abadia, c.1480-1495 Master of Castelsardo, 16th century Raphael, 1518 Claudio Coello, c.1660 Luca Giordano, 1663 Sebastiano Ricci, c.1720 Antonio María Esquivel, 1840

I think this is the comfiest my art has ever been. Every time I look at it I want to take a nap

sorry, if your veneration and love of Mary comes ONLY because of her virginity and because of her womb, and not because of her loving nature, not because her charity and humility and devotion and strength of faith, not because she was so good in her humanity that she was singled out by God, not because she dedicated herself to her Son despite knowing her heart would be pierced— not because she was a good person, but because you see her as a walking untainted vagina and incubator— you don’t love the mother of God for herself, just for her body parts.

Lyuba Yatskiv, Annunciation / Nativity / Theotokos in Paradise

Merry Christmas sleepyheads !

Our Lady of Guadalupe appearing to St Juan Diego on a storefront in Los Angeles.