fuckyeahtrannies: thegang: Calendar features transgender models posing as the Virgin - controversy follows. Click photo for the article. (via blabbeando) From blabbeando’s post: A calendar released by an LGBT rights organization in Spain is raising some eyebrows for its use of religious imagery in what is a predominately Catholic country. The 2010 calendar, which had an initial pressing of 10,000 copies, shows settings that mimic religious paintings and features transgender models dressed like the Virgin Mary. […] “It’s not something that worries me, what truly is important is that the message gets out there; which is the importance of the use of a condom” he said. “They are interpretations of religious images, not copies,” he added, “I sincerely don’t think anyone should be offended by them”. Of course, the predominant factor that sets these images apart is the use of transgender models posing as the Virgin. The include Carla Antonelli, a leading Spanish transgender rights activist, who said she certainly considered the potential controversy that the calendar might elicit before she agreed to pose for it. “I posed myself the following scenario: Why is it that a transsexual woman can’t represent a religious icon given life by so many other actors and actresses throughout history? To not do it would be akin to internalizing the same discriminatory principles that people want to throw against us”, she said. The project’s authors say that there is a definite intent to make transgender women more visible to society.

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Calendar features transgender models posing as the Virgin - controversy follows.

Click photo for the article. (via blabbeando)

From blabbeando’s post:

A calendar released by an LGBT rights organization in Spain is raising some eyebrows for its use of religious imagery in what is a predominately Catholic country.

The 2010 calendar, which had an initial pressing of 10,000 copies, shows settings that mimic religious paintings and features transgender models dressed like the Virgin Mary.

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“It’s not something that worries me, what truly is important is that the message gets out there; which is the importance of the use of a condom” he said. “They are interpretations of religious images, not copies,” he added, “I sincerely don’t think anyone should be offended by them”.

Of course, the predominant factor that sets these images apart is the use of transgender models posing as the Virgin. The include Carla Antonelli, a leading Spanish transgender rights activist, who said she certainly considered the potential controversy that the calendar might elicit before she agreed to pose for it.

“I posed myself the following scenario: Why is it that a transsexual woman can’t represent a religious icon given life by so many other actors and actresses throughout history? To not do it would be akin to internalizing the same discriminatory principles that people want to throw against us”, she said.

The project’s authors say that there is a definite intent to make transgender women more visible to society.