NOMINEES FOR SAINTHOOD 2023

HERE are the nominations for Gay Saints of Antinous for 2023.

The priests of Antinous are deliberating on these nominations and will announce their decision at Foundation Day ceremonies at the Hollywood Temple of Antinous on 30th October.

Then the names of the new saints will be added to our LIST OF SAINTS.

The nominees are:

INNOCENT MARTYRS:

GIOVANNI DI GIOVANNI (died may 7th 1365) 15-year-old boy executed for sodomy in Florence. Publicly castrated and then killed with a red hot iron inserted into his anus.

O'SHAE SIBLEY stabbed while vogueing in New York City.

LIST OF 19 NAMES: https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-transgender-and-nonbinary-community-in-2023

HEROIC MARTYR:

LAURA ANN CARLETON (died August 20, 2023) "murdered defending her LGBTQ+ Pride flags in front of her store" in California. Was not LGBTQ herself, but died in defense of our flag.

SAINTS OF ANTINOUS:

KENNETH ANGER one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, died May 11th 2023 of natural causes. He was 96. Anger began making films as a teenager, and his surreal, homoerotic 1947 short film Fireworks is considered by many to be the first gay narrative film made in the United States. His other works include Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969), and Lucifer Rising (1972). He's also remembered for authoring Hollywood Babylon, a collection of sordid tales about the early years of Hollywood that, despite being widely disputed, remain infamous and influential.

JEAN-DANIEL CADINOT French filmmaker. Just as Divine redefined drag artistry, Cadinot redefined gay filmmaking. Cadinot crafted films with imaginative story lines and subtle humor. 

BAYARD RUSTIN (August 24, 1987) was an African-American leader in social movements for civil rights, social reform, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement, in 1941, to press for an end to racial discrimination in employment. Rustin later organized Freedom Rides, and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to strengthen Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership. During the 1970s and 1980s, Rustin served on many humanitarian missions, such as aiding refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia. At the time of his death in 1987, he was on a humanitarian mission in Haiti. President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom.