Gay last supper
Drag queen in Olympic opening ceremony has no regrets
As a gay youth growing up in pivotal France, Hugo Bardin never felt he lived in a world that represented who he was — a earth in which he had a place.
And that is why Bardin, who performs as the kingly queen Paloma, felt it was meaningful and important 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 important moment for the French people and the representation 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 known for winning “Drag Race France,” appeared with other drag artists and dancers alongside Barbara Butch, a popular DJ who wore a silver headdress tha
Some deny Olympics ‘queer’ parody was of Last Supper, but performers say it was
Elise Ann Allen, Catholic Herald/Crux
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Representatives of the Paris 2024 Olympics Committee have apologized to anyone offended by a drag-queen parody of the Last Supper during the opening ceremony, insisting the intention was to foster inclusion and celebrate diversity. Others utter the parody was not of Leonardo da Vinci’s famed painting. Yet the Lesbian performer who portrayed Christ tweeted on X: “Oh yes! Oh yes! The new gay testament!” The send was subsequently deleted.
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Olympics LGBT Last Supper scene signals intent to modify the world
By Joseph Mattera, Op-ed Contributor
The controversial opening presentation of the Olympics that included a controversial depiction of the Last Supper was no accident.
I think the ceremony carried a deeper message that many might overlook. The resulting backlash has sparked a social media firestorm!
Critics dispute it was a pagan party, reenacting an ancient Greek celebration from the original Olympics. Before addressing this claim, I introduce the following statement from the ceremony’s choreographer:
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“The idea was to do a enormous pagan party linked to the gods of Olympus,” Opening Ceremonies choreographer Thomas Jolly told the Paris-based BFM network on Sunday, according to France 24. “You’ll never find in my work any desire to mock or denigrate anyone.”
But organizers reportedly acknowledged Sunday that Jolly “took inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting to create the setting.”
The production team’s admission of drawing inspira
Gaslit By the Olympic Torch
1. It doesn’t have to be an either-or. Art (to use the term loosely) is often multivalent. The organizers could hold set out to capture different aspects of, or combine, both the Dionysius scene and the Last Supper. And if you assume about it, doing a mashup of one of Christianity’s most sacred moments with a scene of Bacchanalian debauchery isn’t really any less gratuitously provocative, offensive, or inappropriate for a ceremony intended to promote the unifying influence of sport, is it?
2. Indeed, the painting that the ceremony’s creative director Thomas Jolly is widely presumed—including by his defenders—to be riffing on, Jan van Bijlert’s Feast of the Gods, was itself a deliberate play on the Last Supper as it is often composed in art, most famously in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting. Christians didn’t imagine this connection in a fever dream or invent it out of thin atmosphere, so stop organism coy. (One Facebook commenter snarked, “I’m surprised they didn’t use a manger with a neonate and a gal next to it [and say] it was Aphrodite and her son Cupid.”)
3. Notwithstanding Jolly’s demonstration, comments made by other producers of and participants