Last Updated on April 23, 2021 by Kittredge Cherry
Happy Easter! Christ is risen! Rejoice!
May the Risen Rainbow Christ light up your life!
A triangle of rainbow light shines over Jesus in this year’s Easter image: “Christ the Light” by Kelly Latimore. Rainbows symbolize the LGBTQ community. They also show the full spectrum of light and stand for God’s promise to support all life on earth. Jesus called himself and his followers “the light of the world.” In this 2020 painting, the rainbow radiates from the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove in the white triangle. A cosmic Christ affirms his place with the sun, moon and stars by holding a book with the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. It expresses the scripture, “I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.” (Revelation 1:8). In the Book of Revelation, a rainbow encircles the throne of Christ in heaven.
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Latimore is known for painting innovative icons of unlikely contemporary saints such as Stonewall saint and trans activist Marsha P. Johnson and the migrant family in his best-known work “Refugees: La Sagrada Familia.” He began painting icons in 2011 while he was a member of the Common Friars, an Episcopal monastic community in Athens, Ohio.
For the true meaning of Easter, read my commentary on The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision paintings by Douglas Blanchard.
Eager for even more LGBTQ Easter images? Check out my previous Easter greetings from 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
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Christ is risen indeed! Happy Easter!
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Top image credit:
“Christ the Light” by Kelly Latimore
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This post is part of the LGBTQ Calendar series by Kittredge Cherry. The series celebrates religious and spiritual holidays, events in LGBTQ history, holy days, feast days, festivals, anniversaries, liturgical seasons and other occasions of special interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people of faith and our allies.
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