Harvey Milk's (sexual and sacred) body
Harvey Milk has been constituted as a queer saint. This article, in the self-identifying voice of a gay man, explores the significance of Harvey Milk's queer cultural sanctity in relation to his sexual embodiment, emphasizing that "Saint Harvey" was a leading figure in a movement of s...
| Published in: | Body and religion |
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| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: Religious body imagined, part II" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publishing
2021
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Body and religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-23 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Milk, Harvey 1930-1978
/ Homosexual movement
/ Saint
/ Bodiliness
/ Sexuality
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBQ North America KCD Hagiography; saints NCF Sexual ethics TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Sanctity
B Queer B Sexuality B Icon B Martyr B Saint |
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| Summary: | Harvey Milk has been constituted as a queer saint. This article, in the self-identifying voice of a gay man, explores the significance of Harvey Milk's queer cultural sanctity in relation to his sexual embodiment, emphasizing that "Saint Harvey" was a leading figure in a movement of sexual liberation and was himself a strongly sexual being, facts sometimes downplayed in his representation as a sacred figure in contrast with his vitally sexual pre-assassination body. Examining the phenomenon of the "canonization" of a sexually embodied gay Jewish agnostic, the article asks what happens when Milk's sacralization is explicitly tied to his sexuality, focusing on a central question: can a saint be a sexual being, not peripherally or incidentally, but centrally and essentially? |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.15678 |