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Oscar Wilde: Gay martyr with complex faith journey recalled in art

by Kittredge Cherry | | Nov 16-30, Saints

Oscar Wilde is a 19th-century Anglo-Irish writer whose reputation as a gay literary martyr and LGBTQ role model often overshadows his spiritual journey as a follower of Christ and Anglican convert to Catholicism. He died on Nov. 30, 1900, after a deathbed conversion....

Gay marriage of liberators Lincoln and Jesus imagined by artist

by Kittredge Cherry | | Artists, Saints

Research suggests that liberators Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ were both queer, so an artist created an image of their same-sex marriage. “Abraham Lincoln Jesus Christ Gay Marriage” by Mark Allyn is posted here in honor of Lincoln’s birthday on Feb. 12. Allyn is a...