On Easter Sunday, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence ruffled some right-wing feathers for the 37th year in a row with their annual Hunky Jesus contest. Hot boys, drag queens and even families flocked to Golden Gate Park to celebrate the rebirth of the Son of God in the gayest of ways.
Spring, as they say, has sprung.
Bauhaus
Lord, I wouldn’t have missed this for anything!
Glücklich
@Bauhaus:
Happy Easter MonGAY!
I’m sorry to have missed this, too, but Mr. Glücklich and I had the ‘rents over for an extremely rare visit to the city and *this* would not have been their cup of tea.
No mention of the parallel Foxy Mary contest?
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/slideshow/Hunky-Jesus-and-Foxy-Mary-contest-dominates-127177.php
Glücklich
@Bauhaus:
Also interesting the 240th anniversary of the founding of [what would become] San Francisco.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/240-years-ago-today-Spanish-explorers-reached-7042570.php
Bauhaus
@Glücklich:
Hope the visit was nice! Thanks for the article. We collect engravings – the one in article is beautiful.
Alex Rothwell
A fun thing for Easter !
Jodie Begaye
Yaaasssss
Kieran
Waiting for the ‘Hunky Mohammad’ Contest, but that would take too much courage for the Perpetual Sissies.
Juanjo
@Kieran: Awwww, aren’t you clever! Have anything relevant to the event or do you just obsess over Muslims all day long, trying t work them into every conversation?
joeyty
No hunky Mohammad, of course. Sacrilege is only fun for that crowd if it isn’t dangerous.
KevinG
@Kieran: Speaking for myself, I am of Catholic descent from all sides of my family — Irish Catholic, French Catholic, German Catholic, and Danish Catholic. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence that I know all universally come from Christian families and a huge percentage come from Catholic families. So many went to Catholic schools and had shared experiences with Catholic nuns as teachers. Many who didn’t nevertheless have many other shared experiences of the type of religious upbringing they had in their youth, and this kind of humor is a reaction to it. It wouldn’t make sense for them to have a Hunky Mohammad contest if they weren’t raised Muslim. That sounds like something that gay Muslims might consider.
Secondly, if your point is that they’re cowards for mocking Catholicism but not Islam because Muslims will kill them but Christian no longer will (make no mistake, there was a point in human history when they would have)? Shouldn’t you consider that you be a point of PRIDE in your religion?
onthemark
Here’s some scientific speculation as to what Jesus REALLY looked like –
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a234/1282186/
Kevin J Desmond
I’d like to commit sin with the one holding the bottle .. just sayen.
Xzamilio
@KevinG: Yeah… cool story, bro. But, we already know that’s not something that gay Muslims might consider. At least not publicly. Of course ignoring the obvious deflection from Kieran’s valid yet irrelevant point about Islam, the main reason you won’t see a hunky Muhammad contest is because there are no images of Muhammad in Islamic culture. As far as that goes, a hunky Muhammad contest would be an empty stage.
Of course if you want to make Muhammad in effigy with bacon wraps and PBR, I’m all in!!!
Billy Budd
I always thought Jesus was sexy. Almost naked on a cross, long blond hair, muscular body, sweaty, glistening.
Pete
@Glücklich:
I was about to say, what about MILF Mary?
Pete
Didn’t they used to hold this in Dolores Park? The weather’s better. Pretty safe bet that it will be warm and fog-free. GG park by comparison is hit-or-miss.
joeyty
@KevinG: I’m not Catholic (and quite critical of the Catholic Church) but I recognize what a wussy spectacle this is. I’m not saying those nun guys (young folks soon won’t even know what nuns are, incidentally)haven’t done anything good (raised money for AIDS and breast cancer causes, etc) but this event is just smug, safe, and silly.
joeyty
@Xzamilio: Because they know they’d get blown away like the Charlie Hebdo guys.
Pete
@Billy Budd:
“I always thought Jesus was sexy. Almost naked on a cross, long blond hair, muscular body, sweaty, glistening.”
Recently some British (who else?) anthropologists constructed a composite of what the historical Jesus *probably* looked like based on bones found in graves unearthed in Jerusalem, and it ain’t pretty — unless you’re really turned on by IS and Al Qaeda types.
However given the cosmopolitan nature of the Greco-Roman eastern Mediterranean in antiquity, it’s entirely possible that Jesus was just as hot as any Renaissance master painted him. It would account for why he was way more popular than all the other messiahs running around 1st Century Judea.
Pete
@joeyty: ” I’m not Catholic (and quite critical of the Catholic Church) but I recognize what a wussy spectacle this is.”
I couldn’t disagree more! The Sisters have always poked good-natured fun at religious institutions, and its the Church that gets its panties all tied up in a knot! If ever an organization needed to cultivate a sense of humor about itself, it’s the Catholic Church.
Christian art, especially Catholic art from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, is full of beautiful and often erotic depictions not only of Jesus and Mary (Freud’s Madonna/whore dichotomy), but also many of the other Saints. The many paintings of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, Bernini’s St. Teresa in Ecstasy (she claimed she was fantasizing about chewing on the Holy Prepuce — giving Jesus foreskin a hummer — I kid you not!)
Misty Bolling
Awsome
joeyty
@Pete: I know all about the insanity of the history of Catholicism from the crazy saint stories to the alleged Vatican/Hollywood Conspiracy to Danny Thomas, but I still see this as a self-congratulatory, look-how-cool-we-are, event (with a touch of mean-spiritedness)…when it just looks tired. Catholicism has been mocked in funnier ways …forever. Let’s see a hunky Vishnu, or Buddha, or…..Mohammad (Islam is a big topic now), but that sure isn’t likely.
joeyty
@Pete: I saw a documentary where scientists tried to guess at Jesus’ looks based on the faces of people in families that have lived in that area since ancient times. Was pretty interesting.
Billy Budd
Jesus was black. Desert black. Who cares? There are hot guys from the desert too.
Brian
The “Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence” are truly perpetual and indulgent. They’re not particularly talented but they have tenacity.
Robert Salamanca
Chaddleton Rizk you would have killed in this competition
Goforit
@Kevin J Desmond: Only if I get to be the third and we invite the one next to “bottle boy” to join in. Can I get a HALLALUA?
BigWill
Love it.
tdh1980
Fun contest and good-looking guys, but I’m pretty sure Jesus wasn’t Anglo.
GayEGO
Hey! Hey! Hey! A beautiful Gay Day with hot, hunky guys!
o.codone
I don’t find anything personally troubling about portraying Jesus in a sexual way, but many people see it as offensive. This event, coming from the fags who go out of their way to avoid offending everybody (Muslims, feminists, Jews, and everyone else), except, when it comes to Christians, particularly Catholics, it’s anything goes. Nobody likes ridicule. And fags wonder why people hate them. Well girls, it’s because you do offensive sh it like this.
Yeah, pussies, try that on Muslims and see how long you live.
dwes09
@Pete: “(she claimed she was fantasizing about chewing on the Holy Prepuce — giving Jesus foreskin a hummer — I kid you not!)”
Jesus would most definitely not have had a foreskin! It would have been removed in the Brit Milah ritual on the eighth day of his life.