Wayne Besen - Author, Activist, Columnist, Public Speaker

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Wayne Besen Appeared on CNN Headline News On Wed.

Author Wayne Besen (Me) weighed in on the debate over a naughty spoof of The Last Supper that is being exploited by right wingers.

It is amazing, as Dan Savage pointed out in The Stranger, that social conservatives remained silent on countless spoofs of the same picture. But, when the gay people at the Folsom Street Fair spoofed the Last Supper, they went crazy. What a cheap and transparent double standard! Especially when one considers that Leonardo Di Vinci, who pained the original picture, was gay.

11 Comments:

What is considerably more offensive than the picture in question is the fact that the religious right is trying to use it to smear all gay people. Now THAT is what is TRULY disgusting.
posted by Anonymous, at 9/26/2007 3:41 PM

Be sure to make the point that DaVinci himself was gay! And for that matter so was Michelangelo.
posted by Anonymous, at 9/26/2007 3:43 PM

I'm an artist who studied both famous Renaissance men and wasn't Leonardo a pederast, not a homo? Didn't Da Vinci have a sort of "protege" who was an adolescent that just never left him as the years wore on? I don't consider pederasts to be gays.
posted by Emily K, at 9/27/2007 2:02 AM

I know Wayne is a professional and can't really go into his private life for good reasons, but god I personally find this man SO attractive. Does any other gay man have the hopeless crush for Mr. Besen?

I wonder if he has a personal preference for how he wants his man to act like most gay men do (ie submissive, dominant or in the middle) It just drives me crazy! I am such a fan boy..I need help, I admit it. I think we're so compatible though!!!
posted by Anonymous, at 9/28/2007 6:29 PM

I'm sure lots of us on here think Wayne is a hunkorama. Smile.
posted by Anonymous, at 9/29/2007 1:25 PM

There is an important point to be made about this version of the Last Supper -

it recasts the original participants with this societies outsiders, reminding us that Jesus, his disciples, and the early church were also outsiders, accused of threatening the social order, of violating tradition, of threatening religious and political authority, of attacking the institutions of their society.

I suspect that the conservatives who are having such temper tantrums over this image, are more threatened by the correlation of Christ=outsiders than by the sexual nuances.
posted by Friend of Jonathan, at 9/29/2007 2:59 PM

Emily you are correct!
posted by Anonymous, at 10/01/2007 7:17 AM

but god I personally find this man SO attractive. Does any other gay man have the hopeless crush for Mr. Besen?

He may be a good-looking guy, but the headshots and muscle shirts on his blog creep me out a little and kind of take away from the legitimacy of his otherwise great blog.
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