Andrés Duque highlighted a fundraising campaign in Spain for the LGTB Collective of Madrid this weekend: they're selling calendars with photographs of queer reinterpretations of famous religious paintings that feature trans women as the Virgin Mary.
Some of my favorites are after the jump. It's an interesting project.
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Cool, but they missed the boat and should have made some of the apostles trans too.
Rob Barton | October 20, 2009 2:34 PM
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Rob, you didn't notice that astonished face on the left side of the painting for October? The wide-eyed, bearded one dressed in medieval drag?
Several of the other apostles and shepherds look untraditionally hunky, and something more than transexualism is clearly going on here artistically --- I would surmise the men have an unspoken "Ask, but Don't Tell" policy operating within their ranks?
A. J. Lopp | October 20, 2009 4:42 PM
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The old FMI ised to put out a yearly transsexual cheescake calander - something like 30 years ago, I think.
Interesting that it's a Spanish art project - Dali had so many trans muses.
Kathy | October 20, 2009 4:22 PM
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I like it :)
Antonia D'orsay | October 20, 2009 10:04 PM
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February is my favorite. Look at her IMMACULATE hair!
:-)
Thanks for posting this Alex! You rock!
Phil Reese | October 21, 2009 11:53 AM
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Alex, how in hopes of a serious presentation of "Religion", is this relevant? Do you really know any Trans Women outside of the entertainment industry? This is what the Religious Right believes transgender persons to be, a mockery. Yes I am a transgender woman, but am also of the "personal conservative side", not too many of us in this part of the "T" decorative dangling participle.
Estelle | October 24, 2009 9:39 AM
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Actually, I know quite a few trans people outside the entertainment industry. But some are, and, more importantly, they don't have to be to take part in a fund-raising calendar. I know one of the women featured in the calendar is a Spanish transgender activist, who said in the accompanying article:
I think, in Spain especially, that taking back the symbol of the Virgin could be important to some people.
Alex Blaze | October 24, 2009 11:28 AM
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