“Make the Yuletide gay,” urges a popular Christmas song. In that spirit, click the headlines below to find queer cheer from Christmas highlights at the Jesus in Love Blog.
A rainbow version of the Christmas carol “Some Children See Him” has a new straight/queer stanza added to the standard multiracial lyrics.
An ancient Christmas chant raises queer questions by comparing sunrise on Christmas morning to mystical marriage with Christ the Bridegroom.
A lesbian couple cares for the baby Jesus in a heartwarming personal story from one woman’s Christmas journey.
A gay baby Jesus with a rainbow halo lit up a billboard for a church in New Zealand.
A gay Nativity display in Columbia was condemned by the atholic Church as “sacrilege” while thousands criticized it on social media.
Reimagining the three kings as queer or female gives fresh meaning to story of the Magi. Biblical scholarship suggests that the Magi were eunuchs -- people who today would be called gay or transgender.
What if the child of God was born to a lesbian or gay couple? Because, after all, LOVE makes a family.
Nasty accusations of blasphemy were hurled when conservative bloggers discovered my gay and lesbian Nativity scenes. “Love..is NOT the criteria for making a ‘Family,’” said one critic.
There’s good reason to believe that Good King Wenceslas was gay. Yes, the king in the Christmas carol. Many details in the carol are pious fiction, but historical research documents the love between the king and his page Podiven.
Seven people from three countries sent images for the Queer Nativity project at the Jesus in Love Blog. They present Christ's birth in an amazing variety of liberating, loving new ways.
Christina Rossetti was a 19th-century English poet and “queer virgin” whose work includes the Christmas carol “In the Bleak Midwinter.”
Nativity scene at California church
Vandals knocked over the same-sex couples in a manger scene at a church in Claremont, California. Police investigated the attack as a hate crime.
The Madonna and her female lover are portrayed by a real lesbian couple, seven months’ pregnant through artificial insemination in “Annunciation” by Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin.
Two lesbian mothers cuddle the Christ child in “Madonna, Lover and Son” by Becki Jayne Harrelson.
Jesus’ angelic birth highlights the holiness of EVERY birth in a scene from the controversial new play “Jesus, Queen of Heaven” by transsexual Jo Clfford.
Conservatives attack an Episcopal bishop’s gender-bending Christmas card because it shows a multi-racial trio of female Magi visiting the baby Jesus and his mother (“Epiphany” by Janet McKenzie).
DVDs against same-sex marriage are being recycled now as decorations for the inclusive Christmas tree of Minnesota artist Lucinda Naylor.
Video and commentary on Amsterdam’s 2008 gay Nativity scene with live actors.
Animals symbolize peace at Christmas, so the Jesus in Love Blog gladly dedicates a special post to animals.
Nine artists mix Christmas imagery with a progressive vision of GLBT rights, racial and gender justice, and a world without war, poverty or pollution
A nursing Madonna affirms the goodness of the human body, although some are shocked by her bare breasts.
2014 Christmas offering
Merry Christmas from Kittredge Cherry, publisher of the Jesus in Love Blog! Celebrate the season with a donationt to support my work at Jesus in Love for LGBT spirituality and the arts.
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Top image credit: “Rainbow Star” by Andrew Craig Williams, a queer artist in Wales.
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This post is part of the LGBT Holidays series by Kittredge Cherry at the Jesus in Love Blog. The series celebrates religious and spiritual holidays, 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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Very happy to have contributed to Jesus in Love this year, Kitt. Looking forward to more collaboration in 2014 :) Nadolig Llawen x
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