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Saint Valentine: Marriage equality role model

Saint Valentine: Marriage equality role model

by Kittredge Cherry | | Feb 1-15, Saints

Marriage equality has a surprising role model in Saint Valentine, a 3rd-century Roman priest who defied the restrictive marriage laws of his era to bless couples who were forbidden to marry. His feast day is, of course,  Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14). Saint Valentine was...
Oscar Wilde: Gay martyr with complex faith journey recalled in art

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....
Church rejection of LGBTQ people exposed by Polish artist Daniel Rycharski

Church rejection of LGBTQ people exposed by Polish artist Daniel Rycharski

by Kittredge Cherry | | Artists

Crosses draped in LGBTQ clothing and prayer beads made with a gay man’s blood call attention to queer experience with the church in the work of gay Polish artist Daniel Rycharski. He grabbed international headlines with his first solo exhibit at the Museum of Modern...
Support Polish LGBTQ activist arrested for rainbow Virgin Mary posters

Support Polish LGBTQ activist arrested for rainbow Virgin Mary posters

by Kittredge Cherry | | Artists, News

Q Spirit founder Kittredge Cherry sent a letter protesting the recent arrest of a Polish LGBTQ activist for posters of the Virgin Mary and Christ child with rainbow halos. Elżbieta Podleśna was arrested recently for “offending religious sentiments” on charges that she...
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