“But are as the Angels which are in Heaven” (Mark 12:25): Reimagining a Gender-Ambiguous Heaven in Dorian Electra’s ADAM & STEVE

Schlote, Yannick2023-05-232023-05-232020https://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/230https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20724The 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 ...engCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 GenericReimaginingGender-AmbiguousHeaven780“But are as the Angels which are in Heaven” (Mark 12:25): Reimagining a Gender-Ambiguous Heaven in Dorian Electra’s ADAM & STEVEDorian Electra10.25364/05.6:2020.2.710.25969/mediarep/19530ADAM & STEVE2617-3697