Our COVID summit group came across these images while attending a reception after the COVID summit day of testimony in the Parliament. The pornographic feel to these paintings, combined with their clearly intentionally blasphemous content left many at the COVID Summit meeting shocked and upset. These were hung in a space where a reception was held for the COVID summit attendees, many of whom were clergy and other people of religious faith.
Personally, I also felt great shame for the gay, lesbian and transgendered people supposedly represented in these images. Most gay and lesbian people do not wish for the public to view them as whores, in bondage, dressed inappropriately or as “sluts,” for lack of better words. These images defile them as well. It makes a mockery of who they are.
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