Gay opening ceremony
Super Gay Olympics Opening Ceremony Causing Global Outrage
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics has officially wrapped up, but the incredibly gay performances have still got people talking across the globe.
The very camp opening ceremony included Lady Gaga, Celine Dion and a lineup of France’s finest Drag Queens as they took over the River Seine.
However it was the later that has caused quite a stir across the globe.
“Heaven cries as Olympics Opening Ceremony Mock the Last Supper”
The opening ceremony took place over the weekend as a very slow procession of barges headed down the River Seine showcasing French performers throughout the evening, despite rain drenching the procession.
However it was Nicky Doll, the host of Drag Race France and her guests who caught the attention of the world for several reasons.
The large group of drag queens appeared during their segment with Nicky Doll on the barge seated at a drawn-out table.
Dressed in their finest, the group sat along the table, preparing for a feast or as some interpreted it, a supper.
The meal was even complete with a strange blue man served upon a platter in the centre of the table.
However
Drag queen in Olympic opening ceremony has no regrets
As a gay youth growing up in central France, Hugo Bardin never felt he lived in a world that represented who he was — a world in which he had a place.
And that is why Bardin, who performs as the queenly queen Paloma, felt it was meaningful and significant to be part of a Paris Olympics opening ceremony that presented a multifaceted, multiethnic France with people of different ethnicities and orientations.
“It was a really significant moment for the French people and the inclusion of France around the world,” says Paloma, who took part in a single scene that has drawn some furious criticism — including from presidential candidate Donald Trump in the United States, who called it “a disgrace.”
Although the ceremony’s artistic director, Thomas Jolly, and other participants have repeatedly said the scene wasn’t inspired by “The Last Supper,” critics interpreted that part of the show as a mockery of Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting showing Jesus Christ and his apostles.
Paloma, best famous for winning “Drag Race France,” appeared with other drag artists and dancers alongside Barbara Butch, a popular DJ who wore a silver headdress tha
The Olympic Opening Ceremonies and Why LGBTQ+ Public Displays Celebrate Perversity
For the last 20 years, when it comes to LGBTQ+ people and issues, I possess followed this simple directive from the Lord: “Reach out and resist,” essence, “Reach out to the people with compassion; resist the agenda with courage.” Or, put another way (and now in the title of a forthcoming book), we should own hearts of compassion and backbones of steel.
In keeping with that spirit, I do not demonize those who identify as Diverse, as if all of them were devious sexual predators who gloried in BDSM practices and delighted in displays of widespread perversity.
Why, then, have homosexual pride events for decades been marked by these very perverse displays? And why were the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games, intended by the planners to draw attention to France’s LGBTQ+ society, marked by such perversity?
We can put aside for a moment the debate as to just how offensive the ceremonies were, in particular, the degree of intentionality behind the despicable mockery of DaVinci’s Last Supper portrait, with a drag queen, wearing a crown, taking the place of Jesus.
I will say, though, that the ultimate, i
Gay Games IV Opening Ceremony at Wien Stadium
History
Dr. Tom Waddell (1937-1987), a gay gentleman and Olympic decathlete, envisioned an inclusive event at the crossroads of sports, culture, and social justice. In 1982, he founded the Gay Olympics in San Francisco. The Merged States Olympic Committee, however, went to court to prevent the use of the word “Olympics,” even though other groups were using it without issue. The name was then changed to the Homosexual Games.
With gay men’s sexuality under increased attack because of the AIDS epidemic, Waddell called the Queer Games “a statement on the quality of our lives.” The Games also stood in sharp contrast to the homophobic society of sports by giving LGBT athletes the opportunity to compete without having to hide an significant part of their identity.
To coincide with Stonewall 25 (the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising), the Federation of Gay Games, the event’s international governing body, chose New York as the host municipality for the 1994 Games and, for the first time, held it in June. NY in ’94, a nonprofit organization, ran the event. Gay G
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