A detail of the Holy Week poster by Salustiano Garcia
Easter is coming up at the end of March. The Christian holiday is a particularly big thing in Spain and many regions hold their own special festivals. This includes Seville.
The city’s General Council of Brotherhoods and Guilds announced last September it had chosen local, respected artist Salustiano Garcia (b.1965) to design a poster for Holy Week 2024.
That poster was unveiled this week… and it’s divided opinion online. Check it out below.
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Some have expressed love for the image. The city’s Council of Brotherhoods praised the work. It says it depicts “the radiant side of Holy Week.”
That’s not what others are seeing. IPSE, an ultra-conservative Catholic group said, “It’s absolutely shameful and an aberration.” It went on to say the depiction of Christ is “camp” and “effeminate.”
Javier Navarro, of the far-right Vox political party, claimed the poster was designed purposefully “to provoke.”
No se trata de gustos artísticos, se trata de que el cartel cumpla con el fin para el que está destinado y no es otro que animar a la participación devota de los fieles a la Semana Santa de Sevilla.
Es evidente que este cartel buscaba la provocación y el Consejo lo ha permitido pic.twitter.com/DTsKJPBIc4
The artist disagrees. He told Spanish newspaper ABC the image was based on his own son, Horacio. Garcia described it as “gentle, elegant and beautiful”. He said he created it with “deep respect” even if, “the representation of the sacred image is very far from my style.”
“To see sexuality in my image of Christ, you must be mad,” he said. He added that painters and sculptors have depicted Christ in a similar fashion over hundreds of years.
Others agreed with him and pointed to similar depictions. Many condemned the implicit homophobia behind some of the criticism.
Nuestro Señor Jesucristo Resucitado de la Ciudad de San Roque ¿Este si y el cartel no? Ay las masculinidades fragiles, la homofobia interiorizada y la caspa cuanto daño hacen… Viva la Semana Santa de Sevilla Felicidades al @ElConsejoSev y a Salustiano Garcia por esta maravilla pic.twitter.com/BFRo11AyYs
On using his own son as a model, Garcia said, “I needed a model, a real and living body that would help me gather all the emotion, beauty and containment that I wanted to convey.”
“I was twelve years old when my brother died. My mother asked me to go into the room where his body rested to say goodbye to him. I was terrified, but when I saw his face and the serene gesture of his hands crossed over his chest, I was shaken. How could a recumbent body contain so much beauty!”
He said his depiction of Christ, “would serve to confirm the resurrection of my brother’s memory.”
Siempre me ha gustado más la imagen del Cristo resucitado, luminosa y vital, que la del Crucificado, sombría y algo necrófila. Así que celebro este cartel, con cierto aire pop. La reacción de los integristas católicos que se han sentido ofendidos es antievangélica, pues nace del… pic.twitter.com/zNwEyuZCQi
Not everyone has blasted the images from a sexual angle. Some online commentators have questioned the paleness of Jesus’s skin.
Proper culture row here in #Sevilla over the new poster for the Easter week. ‘Effeminate’, ‘shameful’ say the right-wingers but some Catholic Sevillanos think it cool and different. The artist Salustiano Garcia says it is about purity. Meanwhile – how very white is @Jesus? pic.twitter.com/ofF2aAzn3j
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Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine
Meltin’ in a pot of thieves
Wild card up my sleeve
Thick heart of stone
My sins, my own
They belong to me, me
People say, “Beware!” But I don’t care
The words are just rules and regulations to me, me
I walk in a room, you know I look so proud
I’m movin’ in this here atmosphere
Well, a-a-anything’s allowed
Then I go to this, here party but oh, I just get bored
Until I look out the window, see a sweet young thing
Humpin’ on the parking meter, leanin’ on the parking meter, oh
She looks so good, oh, she looks so fine
And I got this crazy feeling, and then
I’m gonna ah-ah make her mine
Ooh, I’ll put my spell on her
Here she comes, walkin’ down the street
Here she comes, comin’ through the door
Here she comes crawlin’ up the stair
Here she comes in a pretty red dress, in a pretty red dress
And oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine
And I got this crazy feeling that I’m gonna ah-ah make her mine
I hear this knockin’ on my door, knockin’ on my door
And I look up into the big tower clock
And say, “Oh my God, it’s midnight!”
And my baby is walkin’ through the door
Layin’ on my couch, she whispers to me and I take the big plunge
And oh, she was so good, ooh, oh, she was so fine
And I’m gonna tell the world that I just ah-ah made her mine
I said darling, tell me your name, she told me her name
She whispered to me, she told me her name
She told me her name, she told me her name
She told me her name, she told me her name
And her name is, and her name is, and her name is
And her name is
G-L-O-R-I-A
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria, oh Gloria
It was at the stadium
Oh, twenty thousand girls called their names out to me
Marie Ruth, but to tell you the truth
I didn’t hear them, I didn’t see
I let my eyes rise to the big tower clock
And I heard those bells chimin’ in my heart
Going ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong
Ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong
Calling the time, when you came to my room
And you whispered to me and I took the big plunge
And oh, you were so good, oh, you were so fine
And I’ve got to tell the world that I made ya mine, made ya mine
Made ya mine, made ya mine, made ya mine, made ya mine
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
When the tower bells chime
Ding-dong they chime
I said that Jesus died
For somebody’s sins
But not mine
London!
G-L-O-R-I-A
Gloria
Not to worry. When you insult Christians, what are they going to do? Pray for you?
Thankfully, it wasn’t a painting of Muhammad. That would be a death sentence. Nothing quite like ‘the religion of tolerance’ putting out a fatwa for some painting. Or throwing men off buildings for the suspicion of loving one another.
Well, none of things have happened since this story came out; and we both know none of them will. I guarantee you that if that was a portrait of Muhammad, we would have already heard about it from the usual suspects.
I have been on earth for 59 years and no Christian has ever taken my bodily autonomy, sent me to jail or shot at me. Got anything better or more realistic?
Do you enjoy being a victim? Does it give your life meaning? Do you assume complete strangers hate you; or do you think they only hate you if they find out you’re gay? What would happen to you if you didn’t think of yourself as a victim?
Speakin of men lovin one another Sharon….it don’t sound like you no nuttinbout dat der stuf being your sucha fridggggged old peece of fish and a rednek honki. Dam hik.
It’s common for ignorant people to ignore their own shortcomings. Baron is no exception to this. Which is why he’ll point to Islam as evil completely glazing over the multitudes of heinous actions by those who would profess to share the same faith as them.
“I have been on earth for 59 years and no Christian has ever taken my bodily autonomy, sent me to jail or shot at me.”
So b/c something didn’t happen to YOU totally translates to it not happening to others!? Wow, Baron must be the biggest fat ass there is to have the world gravitationally revolve around them.
It doesn’t have to happen to me, they’ve done it others. And b/c I’m not a 59 y/o loser whose crowning achievement in life is some str8 white guy trolling LGBTQ+ pages for attention, I can empathize with those who have been harmed.
Altho I have been discriminated against by Christians and have been physically assaulted as well by those who would profess to be “followers of Christ.”
B/c Baron basks in the privilege he takes for granted. He is a straight, white, heterosexual cis-gendered male who we now know is 59. What could he know about our suffering? He has, as few others here have, make a mockery of those who really do struggle to be their genuine selves and are perplexed why we band together as community to defend those people b/c he never once has had to do that in his life. Furthermore, his arrogance also engenders the height of this privilege b/c he knows he’ll never be held accountable for it so he’s free to be as nasty, cruel, and contemptuous for those he perceives to be different than him.
I’m almost certain, if we were to meet him in real life, we’d find a very sad, very lonely, and very angry person who has just about everything they could ever want but is never satisfied by it.
That sounds terrible. How do you know they were Christians? Did it happen at church? Did they say, “In the name of Jesus,…..”
I see that your secularism has not prevented you from wishing murder on a public political opponent. Do you think your advocating for assassination makes you morally superior? After all, twice today you have wished death on someone you don’t like. Do you think that bodes well for your secularism?
How? So….they say, “In the name of Jesus Christ, I am going to beat you”?
They don’t sound like very good Christians to me. Out of 2.8 billion Christians in the world, there are bound to be some bad ones. Don’t you think?
You know virtually nothing about me. I find it humorous that since I no longer adhere to a victim mentality, I must be straight. I know you enjoy being a victim, and in your perception, enjoy being part of a victim class.
You live in one of the most prosperous and free countries the world and history has ever known, and you CHOSE to be a victim. Show gratitude; not victimhood.
This post is proof that Baron doesn’t live in the US. The ridiculous idea that Christians in this country would just “pray for you” is so stupid that no real US gay man, no matter how conservative, would be dumb enough to say it. This even makes me think he’s probably not even a real person.
What a beautiful painting. The Catholic church has always sexualized Jesus, so I find their complaints suspect. Religion and sexuality are the holy water of the era, and this painting evokes the current spirit and fascination of the sexual component of religious doctrine.
Beautiful impressions. I also find the painting captivating. Artist Salustiano Garcia’s description of his son and the memory of his brother expanded my perceptions of the work. I see reverence, vulnerability, delicacy of feeling and the triumph of the spirit.
Semana Santa is so big in Sevilla that I’m sure no conflict however manufactured could make a difference. Beautiful painting, btw, and why not go back to Jesus as depicted in the West during the 1950s, but with a little softness thrown in?
Respectfully Lumpy, there’s literally no evidence he existed ever. And if you like, I can list all the places where such a person should be mentioned in ancient Roman manuscripts archeologists have but isn’t, as well as all the wide gaping holes in biblical stories centered around “Jesus” that also don’t or didn’t exist either.
It truly is the most ridiculous of origin stories out there. And there are many. But this one takes the cake, or should I say the measly, bland little wafer…..respectfully.
Really the story of Jesus is just the ancient plagiarizing and appropriation of various “pagan” cultures Christianity conjured together in the 4th Century AD to consolidate under one 1 consistent narrative which resonated with people at the time and a power hierarchy to cement itself as a legitimate belief system. At the time, during the Nicene council, there were something like 32 different sects of christianity all vying for relevance across both the eastern and western empires. To keep the fledging religion from fracturing the council was convened and most notably how various sects were omitted or downright forbidden from participating in the council, but that’s another story all together.
But the story of Jesus: the divine birth, ALL the miracles, death and resurrection all come from more ancient traditions. You can particularly find divine birth and resurrection in the Hindu Vedas, Roman and Greek mythology, ancient Egyptian mythology, among others. Where these cultures had various entities exhibit these powers or origin stories, it was easier to consolidate them all under 1 entity thereby creating what we know as “Jesus.”
And to anyone who would come back at me about the writings of the “disciples” I say this. All those writings were originally based in oral tradition which were later transcribed centuries after their relative origination. So no one can say what the original story actually was and if anyone has ever played “whisper down the alley” knows, things get lost fairly easily and quickly after just a few iterations of the story. There’s no legitimate basis to even believe these disciples existed either.
I like to apply Occam’s Razor to all this: all things being equal the simplest explanation tends to be the correct one. So which is more likley:
1. There really was some divine man, sent by “god” who had phenomenal magical powers and resurrected from the dead (yet ironically couldn’t prevent his own death in the first place w/ his magicks)
2. This is all just another ploy by the ruling class to bring the unwashed masses in under a common narrative and consolidate their own power.
Yikes. Kind of gross. Goofy long hair. And who care about him anyway. If he was real, look where we are now. As gays, we shouldn’t be celebrating anything related to religion
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FreddieW
Nice painting, but it doesn’t really look like he was crucified and pierced with a lance. And he looks more like 23 than 33.
abfab
You’ll have to get over it.
Kangol2
He also doesn’t look very Middle Eastern. I mean, the man was born in Nazareth, not Oslo!
abfab
And the conception. How very special and unique! ”GOD JOE……..I’M PREGNANT”
still_onthemark
The Jonathan Van Ness hairdo is an interesting take but I’m sure Jesus had a hairy chest.
Chrisk
Oh Jesus. Like it’s any different then the ones they worship. You know. White and slender like most depictions.
abfab
The new Jesus is orange and obese.
abfab
Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine
Meltin’ in a pot of thieves
Wild card up my sleeve
Thick heart of stone
My sins, my own
They belong to me, me
People say, “Beware!” But I don’t care
The words are just rules and regulations to me, me
I walk in a room, you know I look so proud
I’m movin’ in this here atmosphere
Well, a-a-anything’s allowed
Then I go to this, here party but oh, I just get bored
Until I look out the window, see a sweet young thing
Humpin’ on the parking meter, leanin’ on the parking meter, oh
She looks so good, oh, she looks so fine
And I got this crazy feeling, and then
I’m gonna ah-ah make her mine
Ooh, I’ll put my spell on her
Here she comes, walkin’ down the street
Here she comes, comin’ through the door
Here she comes crawlin’ up the stair
Here she comes in a pretty red dress, in a pretty red dress
And oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine
And I got this crazy feeling that I’m gonna ah-ah make her mine
I hear this knockin’ on my door, knockin’ on my door
And I look up into the big tower clock
And say, “Oh my God, it’s midnight!”
And my baby is walkin’ through the door
Layin’ on my couch, she whispers to me and I take the big plunge
And oh, she was so good, ooh, oh, she was so fine
And I’m gonna tell the world that I just ah-ah made her mine
I said darling, tell me your name, she told me her name
She whispered to me, she told me her name
She told me her name, she told me her name
She told me her name, she told me her name
And her name is, and her name is, and her name is
And her name is
G-L-O-R-I-A
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria, oh Gloria
It was at the stadium
Oh, twenty thousand girls called their names out to me
Marie Ruth, but to tell you the truth
I didn’t hear them, I didn’t see
I let my eyes rise to the big tower clock
And I heard those bells chimin’ in my heart
Going ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong
Ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong
Calling the time, when you came to my room
And you whispered to me and I took the big plunge
And oh, you were so good, oh, you were so fine
And I’ve got to tell the world that I made ya mine, made ya mine
Made ya mine, made ya mine, made ya mine, made ya mine
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R I-A Gloria
G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria
When the tower bells chime
Ding-dong they chime
I said that Jesus died
For somebody’s sins
But not mine
London!
G-L-O-R-I-A
Gloria
Patti Smith
Baron Wiseman
Not to worry. When you insult Christians, what are they going to do? Pray for you?
Thankfully, it wasn’t a painting of Muhammad. That would be a death sentence. Nothing quite like ‘the religion of tolerance’ putting out a fatwa for some painting. Or throwing men off buildings for the suspicion of loving one another.
abfab
You tried that one before bitch and it went nowhere.
dbmcvey
Take away your bodily autonomy. Send you to jail. Shoot a whole bunch of people.
abfab
Applaud the kiiling of Matthew Shepard………..oh GOD, it’s endless.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
Well, none of things have happened since this story came out; and we both know none of them will. I guarantee you that if that was a portrait of Muhammad, we would have already heard about it from the usual suspects.
I have been on earth for 59 years and no Christian has ever taken my bodily autonomy, sent me to jail or shot at me. Got anything better or more realistic?
Do you enjoy being a victim? Does it give your life meaning? Do you assume complete strangers hate you; or do you think they only hate you if they find out you’re gay? What would happen to you if you didn’t think of yourself as a victim?
abfab
Speakin of men lovin one another Sharon….it don’t sound like you no nuttinbout dat der stuf being your sucha fridggggged old peece of fish and a rednek honki. Dam hik.
abfab
Baron and his common rhetorical questions. Hurry up @dbmcvey…………………..it’s the Rapid Fire Round for 100$ Trash.
AuntieXhrist
You must’ve clicked on his Grindr offer.
SoPluckyWhat
Shoot at doctors for one. Killing a couple.
dbmcvey
Baron, give it time. The idea that Christians are peaceful lambs is just b.s.
ZzBomb
“When you insult Christians, what are they going to do? Pray for you?”
LOL Yeah and they blow up medical clinics, burn down people’s houses, and murder people for perceived slights.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
I love all of your examples. Breathtaking.
abfab
ZZ your girlfriend keeps calling. I think we should let her know that you’re Gay.
ZzBomb
It’s common for ignorant people to ignore their own shortcomings. Baron is no exception to this. Which is why he’ll point to Islam as evil completely glazing over the multitudes of heinous actions by those who would profess to share the same faith as them.
ZzBomb
Oh the ignorance of this statement:
“I have been on earth for 59 years and no Christian has ever taken my bodily autonomy, sent me to jail or shot at me.”
So b/c something didn’t happen to YOU totally translates to it not happening to others!? Wow, Baron must be the biggest fat ass there is to have the world gravitationally revolve around them.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
Fair enough. Yes, none of things have happened to me and it could happen to others.
So let us know – how many times has a Christian ever taken your bodily autonomy, sent you to jail or shot at you? Friends? Family?
ZzBomb
It doesn’t have to happen to me, they’ve done it others. And b/c I’m not a 59 y/o loser whose crowning achievement in life is some str8 white guy trolling LGBTQ+ pages for attention, I can empathize with those who have been harmed.
ZzBomb
Altho I have been discriminated against by Christians and have been physically assaulted as well by those who would profess to be “followers of Christ.”
abfab
Baron can not wrap his head around any of this. Life is challenging enough, but these real examples really threw him for a loop.
You can tell from this, Zz, how limited he is.
High marks, Z.
ZzBomb
@abfab
B/c Baron basks in the privilege he takes for granted. He is a straight, white, heterosexual cis-gendered male who we now know is 59. What could he know about our suffering? He has, as few others here have, make a mockery of those who really do struggle to be their genuine selves and are perplexed why we band together as community to defend those people b/c he never once has had to do that in his life. Furthermore, his arrogance also engenders the height of this privilege b/c he knows he’ll never be held accountable for it so he’s free to be as nasty, cruel, and contemptuous for those he perceives to be different than him.
I’m almost certain, if we were to meet him in real life, we’d find a very sad, very lonely, and very angry person who has just about everything they could ever want but is never satisfied by it.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
That sounds terrible. How do you know they were Christians? Did it happen at church? Did they say, “In the name of Jesus,…..”
I see that your secularism has not prevented you from wishing murder on a public political opponent. Do you think your advocating for assassination makes you morally superior? After all, twice today you have wished death on someone you don’t like. Do you think that bodes well for your secularism?
dbmcvey
“How do you know they’re Christians?”
They tell you.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
How? So….they say, “In the name of Jesus Christ, I am going to beat you”?
They don’t sound like very good Christians to me. Out of 2.8 billion Christians in the world, there are bound to be some bad ones. Don’t you think?
You know virtually nothing about me. I find it humorous that since I no longer adhere to a victim mentality, I must be straight. I know you enjoy being a victim, and in your perception, enjoy being part of a victim class.
You live in one of the most prosperous and free countries the world and history has ever known, and you CHOSE to be a victim. Show gratitude; not victimhood.
dbmcvey
This post is proof that Baron doesn’t live in the US. The ridiculous idea that Christians in this country would just “pray for you” is so stupid that no real US gay man, no matter how conservative, would be dumb enough to say it. This even makes me think he’s probably not even a real person.
abfab
BaronW doesn’t live. Period.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
Another perpetual victim. Poor thing.
abfab
Careful Zz. Baron wants to go steady with you and then change you. To save you!! His heart grows fonder with each new post. Oh you poor thing Zz!
dbmcvey
Not a victim at all Baron, a person who exists in the real world.
storm45701
What a beautiful painting. The Catholic church has always sexualized Jesus, so I find their complaints suspect. Religion and sexuality are the holy water of the era, and this painting evokes the current spirit and fascination of the sexual component of religious doctrine.
bachy
Beautiful impressions. I also find the painting captivating. Artist Salustiano Garcia’s description of his son and the memory of his brother expanded my perceptions of the work. I see reverence, vulnerability, delicacy of feeling and the triumph of the spirit.
Jim
okay people Jesus wasn’t European he was a semite. Let’s depict him correctly.
LumpyPillows
Technically he was a Jew, so should we have already canceled him?
abfab
His Knish recipes are divine!
Fahd
Semana Santa is so big in Sevilla that I’m sure no conflict however manufactured could make a difference. Beautiful painting, btw, and why not go back to Jesus as depicted in the West during the 1950s, but with a little softness thrown in?
LegionKeign
Oh, LAWD, it’s craka jeebus!
It gives Jared Leto sex cult vibes.
bachy
LOL, that it does!
inbama
Nailed – Jared Leto.
In which case, Jesus wasn’t crucified, but hung.
LumpyPillows
LOL!
ZzBomb
Imagine getting upset over the painting of a man who NEVER EXISTED.
LumpyPillows
He may have existed, but the rest is made up.
abfab
May have.
ZzBomb
Respectfully Lumpy, there’s literally no evidence he existed ever. And if you like, I can list all the places where such a person should be mentioned in ancient Roman manuscripts archeologists have but isn’t, as well as all the wide gaping holes in biblical stories centered around “Jesus” that also don’t or didn’t exist either.
abfab
It truly is the most ridiculous of origin stories out there. And there are many. But this one takes the cake, or should I say the measly, bland little wafer…..respectfully.
ZzBomb
Really the story of Jesus is just the ancient plagiarizing and appropriation of various “pagan” cultures Christianity conjured together in the 4th Century AD to consolidate under one 1 consistent narrative which resonated with people at the time and a power hierarchy to cement itself as a legitimate belief system. At the time, during the Nicene council, there were something like 32 different sects of christianity all vying for relevance across both the eastern and western empires. To keep the fledging religion from fracturing the council was convened and most notably how various sects were omitted or downright forbidden from participating in the council, but that’s another story all together.
But the story of Jesus: the divine birth, ALL the miracles, death and resurrection all come from more ancient traditions. You can particularly find divine birth and resurrection in the Hindu Vedas, Roman and Greek mythology, ancient Egyptian mythology, among others. Where these cultures had various entities exhibit these powers or origin stories, it was easier to consolidate them all under 1 entity thereby creating what we know as “Jesus.”
And to anyone who would come back at me about the writings of the “disciples” I say this. All those writings were originally based in oral tradition which were later transcribed centuries after their relative origination. So no one can say what the original story actually was and if anyone has ever played “whisper down the alley” knows, things get lost fairly easily and quickly after just a few iterations of the story. There’s no legitimate basis to even believe these disciples existed either.
I like to apply Occam’s Razor to all this: all things being equal the simplest explanation tends to be the correct one. So which is more likley:
1. There really was some divine man, sent by “god” who had phenomenal magical powers and resurrected from the dead (yet ironically couldn’t prevent his own death in the first place w/ his magicks)
2. This is all just another ploy by the ruling class to bring the unwashed masses in under a common narrative and consolidate their own power.
abfab
32 sects? But there’s only 26 letters in the alphabet if you don’t count symbols. xo
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
“Imagine getting upset over the painting of a man who NEVER EXISTED.”
Imagine wishing murder on a man you have NEVER MET.
dbmcvey
You don’t need to meet some people to recognize how dangerous they are.
abfab
Case in point: Baron.
Brian
Where’s the chest hair?
abfab
And that certain twinkle in his eyes of blue….
crazyoldman
Where can I buy a print?
abfab
Graceland.
abfab
”This sexy new painting of Jesus promoting Easter has conservatives fainting in the pews”
QUEERTY
abfab
Is that Egyptian Cotton? Thread count, please.
straightupgay
Yikes. Kind of gross. Goofy long hair. And who care about him anyway. If he was real, look where we are now. As gays, we shouldn’t be celebrating anything related to religion
Baron Wiseman
Speak for yourself.
abfab
Wow, the 11th Commandment. Very nice, Barron.
abfab
He’d never qualify to enter the Hunky Jesus Contest this coming Easter. Butch it up a bit, bitch!