Gay Jesus Exhibit Needs Police Protection

An art exhibit showing Jesus and his apostles in drag and as gay leathermen required police protection last week at the Lutheran Cathedral in Uppsala, Sweden, 40 miles north of Stockholm.

The exhibit, "Ecce homo" by Elisabeth Ohlson, attracted over 12,000 viewers, groups of demonstrators and several bomb threats.

"I think it's up to the faithful to decide for themselves," said Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund, the pastor who organized the show. "I know some people have denounced me over this, accusing me of making out that Jesus was a woman."

Lesbian activists and Club Toronto, a gay bathhouse, have launched a regular women's night called "Pussy Palace," reports Xtra!

In a news commentary piece, Xtra!'s Zahra Dhanani said: "Why ... do lesbians find it so hard to fuck just for fuck's sake? Why aren't we having these casual sexual encounters when so many of us say we want to?

"As we've all seen over and over again, casual sex between women tends to turn into a two-year relationship that should've stopped after the first night."

The only openly gay member of Australia's federal parliament, Tasmanian Sen. Bob Brown, flung himself in front of Australian Prime Minister John Howard's car earlier this month in Tasmania.

"I just want him to stop the car, get out and talk to us," Brown told police, according to Melbourne Star Observer.

Howard was in Tasmania to shore up support for Liberal MPs (Liberals are conservative in Australia) including anti-gay MP Chris Miles, who organized "Say no to sodomy" rallies during Tasmania's conflicts over anti-gay laws in the mid-1990s.