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Sufjan Stevens sparks furious uproar with 'blasphemous' comments about the Bible being 'very gay'
Sufjan Stevens has sparked furious uproar with his 'blasphemous' comments about the Bible - with some fans now threatening to boycott the singer.
The player, 49, detailed how the religious text is inherently sexual before also branding it as 'very gay.'
'The religious is very sexual,' he detailed in a new interview with Vulture.
'It's erotic. Look at Catholic art through the ages, Baroque art. It's all very fleshy and sensual and full of naked bodies.'
The singer publicly came out in October 2023 when he dedicated his album, Javelin, to his 'beloved partner and optimal friend, Evans Richardson.'
He also revealed Richardson had died that April.
Sufjan - who identifies as a Christian - said that he has 'always embraced' the sexuality of religion in his work.
'I've always felt that my relationship to God is a very intimate and sensual one,' he explained.
Sufjan Stevens has sparked furious uproar with his 'blasphemous' comments about the Bible - with some fans now threatening to boycott the singer
The singer publicly came out in October 2023 when he dedicated his al
Last week, beloved singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens released his 10th studio album, Javelin, to much critical fanfare. But Stevens’s Instagram post marking the album release got almost more attention than the music itself, as he seemingly confirmed his queerness publicly for the very first time.
“This album is dedicated to the light of my experience, my beloved partner and best friend Evans Richardson, who passed away in April. He was an absolute gem of a person, full of being, love, laughter, curiosity, honesty and joy,” Stevens wrote, accompanying an image of Richardson.
It’s not a traditional “coming out” by any means, but the note was certainly read as a coming out by the media. Us Weeklywrote: “Sufjan Stevens comes out, dedicates album to tardy partner,” whereas Queerty wrote: “Sufjan Stevens comes out in emotional note about new album dedicated to his late partner.” PinkNews opted for “Sufjan Stevens comes out with moving album dedication to ‘beloved’ late partner.”
These headlines all say the same thing. But I think it’s worth asking: is this actually a coming out? Stevens is an creator who’s been embraced as queer by queer fans for decades. Are we doing a di
There is a specific lgbtq+ loneliness in the melody of Sufjan Stevens that has made him a central cultural figure to a generation of homosexual people—cis gay men, especially—with an affinity for melancholy. Though his songs of regret, tortured silences, and loves lost to hour and circumstance are universal in their explorations of sadness, something about his vague, almost nervous references to men he’s loved and unconsummated near-flings produce his music especially evocative to gay men.
We can relate to these traumas of the mind—private reckonings we deem unworthy of attention or pity—and contain used his music as the soundtrack to years of private wallowing. There are songs that can be interpreted as laments over unrequited gay adoration (“All of Me Wants All of You”), self-loathing (“Dumb I Sound”), and struggles with one’s sexuality (“Futile Devices”).
Even still, fans don’t know how he identifies, since he’s made the decision to keep that part of his life private. Though I understand the impulse to separate music from musician and let a listener’s interpretation trump an artist’s intent (all that matters, I’m often told, is that I reflect it’s sad gay music), I also understand why someon
A couple weeks advocate , Sufjan Stevens quietly emerged with two new tracks, "Love Yourself" and "With My Whole Heart." The double-single arrived as a prelude to Pride Month, an affirmation punctuated by its rainbow-tinted cover art. Our boy Sufjan has never been expressly unseal about his sexuality outside of his lyrics (here's looking at you, "Predatory Wasp of the Palisades"), leading fans to often lovingly speculate whether his songs are gay or about God.
This morning, he doubled down on the intention of "Love Yourself" in an essay posted to his Tumblr, which reads fancy his most open statement yet. In the first two sentences of the blog, he quotes both RuPaul and Jesus Christ. "To love yourself, you must know yourself. And to know yourself, you must love yourself," he writes. "Love... must endure, it must evolve, it must expand, it must be born-again."
Sufjan's theory is that "failure to love is a failure to be oneself, a failure to be human," and that the concept of self-loathing stems from when Adam and Eve initially gave into temptation. "It’s astounding how much of our planet still continues to tutor us to fee
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