List of works depicting Jesus as LGBT

• {{vanchor|The Many Faces of Jesus}}, also called The Sex Life of Jesus and The Love Affairs of Jesus, a 1973 pornographic screenplay by Jens Jørgen Thorsen that depicted Jesus in sex acts with both men and women. After outcry and government intervention in multiple countries, Thorsen abandoned plans at producing the film, instead making a less explicit film, {{ill|The Return (1992 film)|da|Jesus vender tilbage|lt=The Return|italic=yes}}, in 1992.{{cite book |last1=Stevenson |first1=Jack |author1-link=Jack Stevenson |title=Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s |date=2015 |publisher=McFarland & Co. |isbn=9781476612591 |chapter=Appendix I: Jens Jørgen Thorsen: The Jesus Chronicles |pages=233–246}}
• Him, a lost 1974 gay pornographic film by Ed D. Louie.
• The First Temptation of Christ, a 2019 satirical comedy by Porta dos Fundos in which Jesus is depicted as having a boyfriend.{{cite news |title=Brazil: Netflix 'gay Jesus' parody film ban overturned |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51058029 |access-date=5 December 2023 |work=BBC News |date=9 January 2020}}{{rp|p=64}}

• Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption, a 2011 documentary about the play Corpus Christi {{see below|below}}, but not itself a depiction of Jesus as LGBTQ.
• The gay Jesus film hoax, a long-running chain letter that claims that a film will soon be released depicting Jesus as gay, initially related to The Many Faces of Jesus {{see above|above}}{{cite news |last1=Simbro |first1=William |title=Crusade revives war on non-existent sex film |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register/21805887/ |work=The Des Moines Register |date=18 June 1984 |page=3A |via=Newspapers.com}} and later including references to Corpus Christi {{see below|below}}.{{cite web |last1=Mikkelson |first1=Barbara |author1-link=Barbara Mikkelson |title=Will Jesus Be Portrayed as Homosexual in an Upcoming Film? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gay-jesus-film/ |website=Snopes |access-date=25 November 2023 |language=en |date=2017-01-17| orig-date=April 21, 2000}}

• {{vanchor|Thorsens Jesusfilm}}, a 1975 Danish book translating the script for The Many Faces of Jesus {{see above|above}}.{{cite journal |last1=Gade |first1=Rune |title=Liderlighedens fædreland—Noter om pornografiens frigivelse og religionsspørgsmålet |trans-title=Homeland of Lust—Notes on the Release of Pornography and the Question of Religion |language=da |journal=Slagmark—Tidsskrift for idéhistorie |trans-journal=Battlefield—Journal of the history of ideas |date=9 March 2018 |issue=61 |pages=17–32 |doi=10.7146/sl.v0i61.104057 |doi-access=free}}{{rp|pp=26–27}}
• "The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name", a 1976 poem by James Kirkup published in Gay News, which led to a successful private prosecution by Mary Whitehouse for blasphemy.{{cite book |last1=Tracey |first1=Michael |last2=Morrison |first2=David |author1-link=Michael Tracey (producer) |title=Whitehouse |date=1979 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London & Basingstoke |isbn=978-1-349-16200-0 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-16200-0 |series=Communications}}{{rp|p=15}}
• Jesus in Love: A Novel (2006) and Jesus in Love: At the Cross (2008), novels by Kittredge Cherry depicting Jesus as a bisexual, transgender, gender-fluid erotic mystic.{{cite journal |last1=Shore-Goss |first1=Robert E. |author-link=Robert Goss |title=Queering Jesus: LGBTQI Dangerous Remembering and Imaginative Resistance |journal=Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies |date=2021 |pages=47–70 |doi=10.17613/9exn-n122 |doi-access=free}}{{rp|pp=62–63}}

• "Gay Messiah", a 2004 song by Rufus Wainwright from the album Want Two, which depicts a Second Coming wherein Jesus is "reborn / from 1970s porn" as the titular gay messiah.{{cite news |last1=Deusner |first1=Stephen M. |author1-link=Stephen Deusner |title=Rufus Wainwright: Want Two |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8559-want-two/ |access-date=11 March 2024 |work=Pitchfork |publisher=Condé Nast |date=2004-11-15}}{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Tim |title=Crystal clear |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/feb/20/popandrock.rufuswainwright |access-date=11 March 2024 |work=The Observer |publisher=Guardian Media Group |date=20 February 2005}}

• {{anchor|Corpus Christi}}Corpus Christi, a 1997 play depicting Jesus as a gay man from Corpus Christi, Texas, who is murdered for being gay.
• {{ill|The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven|pt|O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Rainha do Céu|ru|Евангелие от Иисусы, царицы небесной}}, a 2009 monologue written by Jo Clifford, depicts Jesus as a trans woman. A Portuguese translation by Natalia Mallo was performed in 2014 by Renata Carvalho.
• The performer Heath V. Salazar has played the drag king persona Gay Jesus since 2016.{{cite news |last1=Isador |first1=Graham |title=Toronto's 'Gay Jesus' Can Protest and Get Naked at the Same Time |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/torontos-gay-jesus-can-protest-and-get-naked-at-the-same-time/ |access-date=5 December 2023 |work=Vice News |date=7 September 2018 |language=en}}

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