The Gallery of Modern Art ("GoMA") in Glasgow, Scotland, is currently exhibiting a show entitled "Made in God's Image", and what a spectacle it is....
GoMA describes the purpose of the show in detail, as one can read here, though this bit in particular is revelatory:
While some of the works may be controversial from the more traditional and right-leaning positions, the exhibition challenges the assumption that one cannot lead a fully spiritual life while identifying as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and/or Intersexed.
It is the definition of "fully spiritual", on the part of this show's organizers, that is questionable. One of the "fully spiritual" aspects of this show is an opportunity for visitors, as The Telegraph (tongue-in-cheek) puts it, to "adorn" the Holy Bible with "comments". Some of these comments are rather coarse, as one might expect. The website provides details of other "fully spiritual" parts of the show.
It is also proper, particularly since this is a taxpayer-funded institution, for the public to register their displeasure with this show not only with the museum and its benefactors, but also with local and national government officials and the media, should John or Jane Public feel compelled to do so. A well-worded, reasoned response, rather than the histrionics demonstrated by the participants in this spectacle, will go a long way. There is no need to make onesself into a screaming harpie over the products of second-rate art school iconoclasm.
This kind of behavior is exactly what we queers need to not do if we want to be accepted as productive citizens and an asset to society.
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