Rev. Kittredge Cherry's Top 10 LGBT Religious Art Stories of 2012

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By Tahlib

“They Shelter in a Cave” by José Benlliure y Gil, 1926 (Wikimedia Commons)

I am a big fan of list-making, and this list is certainly one that will get peoples attention--religious, gay and artistic all in one. The following is Rev. Kittredge Cherry's Top 10 "LGBT spiritual arts story for 2012," from her Gay Christian blog, "Jesus in Love."

1. Gay Passion of Christ, 24 paintings by Douglas Blanchard
2. “Marriage Made in Heaven” by cartoonist Mr. Fish of ClownCrack.com, also known as Dwayne Booth.
3. Saints Sergius and Bacchus: Male couple martyred in ancient Rome 
4. Gay centurion: Jesus heals a soldier’s boyfriend in the Bible
5. Jemima Wilkinson: Queer preacher reborn in 1776 as “Publick Universal Friend”
6. "Corpus Christi,” a play about a gay Jesus by Terrence McNally
7. "Adam & Steve, and the Bananna Tree" by Tony De Carlo 
8. Ash Wednesday: A day to recall queers executed for sodomy
9. Joan of Arc: Cross-dressing warrior-saint
10. Francis of Assisi’s queer side revealed by historical evidence