Article: “But are as the Angels which are in Heaven” (Mark 12:25): Reimagining a Gender-Ambiguous Heaven in Dorian Electra’s ADAM & STEVE
Abstract
The American singer and songwriter Dorian Electra is a queer phenomenon. Their dandy appearance – the latest album is called Flamboyant (2017) – goes hand in hand with the criticism of toxic masculinity and gender binarism. One of their latest tracks, called "Adam and Steve", is a gay retelling of the Genesis story. It turns on the derogative phrase: It‘s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve that is used to imply an irreconcilable disparity between Christianity and gay love, i.e. queerness in general ...
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Schlote, Yannick: “But are as the Angels which are in Heaven” (Mark 12:25): Reimagining a Gender-Ambiguous Heaven in Dorian Electra’s ADAM & STEVE. In: Journal for Religion, Film and Media, Jg. 6 (2020), Nr. 2, S. 86-89. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19530.
@ARTICLE{Schlote2020,
author = {Schlote, Yannick},
title = {“But are as the Angels which are in Heaven” (Mark 12:25): Reimagining a Gender-Ambiguous Heaven in Dorian Electra’s ADAM & STEVE},
year = 2020,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19530}",
volume = 6,
address = {Marburg},
journal = {Journal for Religion, Film and Media},
number = 2,
pages = {86--89},
}
author = {Schlote, Yannick},
title = {“But are as the Angels which are in Heaven” (Mark 12:25): Reimagining a Gender-Ambiguous Heaven in Dorian Electra’s ADAM & STEVE},
year = 2020,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19530}",
volume = 6,
address = {Marburg},
journal = {Journal for Religion, Film and Media},
number = 2,
pages = {86--89},
}
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