Apollinaria / Dorotheos: Queer saint crossed gender line to become a monk in 5th-century Egypt
Apollinaria of Egypt or Dorotheos has been called a transgender icon or a cross-dressing saint. Assigned female at birth, Apollinaria adopted the name Dorotheos and entered a monastery as a man in fifth-century Egypt. This saint is honored by churches on Jan. 4-5 and...
AIDS spiritual resources: Art and books connect Christ, saints and HIV on World AIDS Day
AIDS spiritual resources for World AIDS Day include prayers, podcasts, artwork, books, and icons such as patron saints of the AIDS pandemic and Jesus wearing a red ribbon. They are presented here for World AIDS Day, Dec. 1. More than 40 years have passed since AIDS...
A same-sex marriage ceremony in… Renaissance Rome?
By Gary Ferguson, University of Virginia In the late 16th century, the famous French essayist Michel de Montaigne wrote about two marriages between people of the same sex. The first involved women in eastern France, the second a group of men in Rome. At the time,...
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