“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 ...engReimaginingGender-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