NEW SAINTS OF ANTINOUS FOR 2024

NEW saints of Antinous were announced by the Hollywood Temple of Antinous tonight during Foundation Day ceremonies shared globally with worshipers in North America, Britain, Europe and Africa via Zoom.

Foundation Day commemorates the founding of the city of Antinoopolis by Emperor Hadrian on 30 October 130 AD on the shores of the Nile where Antinous died a few days earlier.

That was 1,894 years ago, and Foundation Day marks the beginning of our liturgical calendar ... Happy New Year 1894!

After weeks of deliberations, FLAMEN ANTONIUS SUBIA announced the following New Year's List of SAINTS OF ANTINOUS for the new liturgical year.

SAINTS OF ANTINOUS

JOHN HENRY MACKAY (February 6, 1864 – May 16, 1933) was a Scottish-German egoist anarchist, thinker and writer. Born in Scotland and raised in Germany, Mackay was the author of Die Anarchisten (The Anarchists, 1891) and Der Freiheitsucher (The Searcher for Freedom, 1921). 

WILLIAM GRANT (Bill) WHITEHEAD (September 19, 1943 – October 9, 1987) was a trailblazing editor and publisher who was a welcoming beacon and a nurturing supporter to a generation of post-Stonewall-era authors who identified as gay. He made his mark in the international literary community by signing and editing queer writers for Dutton, when few mainstream publishers would acquire their work. Following his death from AIDS, the Publishing Triangle debuted The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, annually honoring writers in the LGBTQ+ community.

AS HEROIC MARTYRS:

Ulises Salvador Nava, Mexico, 29. was head of the department of sexual diversity of the UAGro, was assassinated in the central state of Aguascalientes, on July 15, 2023, where he had participated in the country’s first National Congress of Strategic Litigation for the Defense of the Rainbow Quota.

Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo (9 December 1984 – 13 November 2023) was a Mexican activist for non-binary and LGBT+ rights and electoral magistrate at the State Electoral Court of Aguascalientes. On 1 October 2022, they became the first non-binary magistrate in Latin American history. Baena was a prominent activist of non-binary and LGBT+ rights. Baena and their partner, Dorian Daniel Nieves Herrera, were found dead in their home by Baena's housekeeper on 13 November 2023.