NEW SAINTS OF ANTINOUS FOR 2025

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 1,895 years ago, and Foundation Day marks the beginning of our liturgical calendar ... Happy New Year 1895!

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

LLOYD RIGLER (May 3, 1915 - December 7, 2003) and Lawrence E. Deutsch (Died November 12, 1977) were founders of Adolph's Meat Tenderizer and used their fortune for philanthropic efforts, most notably the Classic Arts Showcase, a free, non-commercial television channel promoting the performing arts, film, and fine art.

KARL GORATH (12 December 1912, died 18 March 2003) was a German nurse who was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp for being gay. Despite contracting dysentery, he managed to survive the war and was released in 1945. But within a few months he was arrested again by West German authorities, who had kept the homophobic Nazi laws intact, and sent back to prison for five years. He died in 2003, having never received compensation for his treatment.

MUHSIN HENDRICKS (June 1967 - 15 February 2025) was a South African imam, Islamic scholar and LGBTQ activist. He was involved in various LGBTQ Muslim advocacy groups and was an advocate for greater acceptance of LGBTQ people within Islam. Hendricks married a Hindu man in 2006. Mushin ran a mosque in Cape Town intended as a safe haven for gay and other marginalized Muslims. He was killed when the car in which he was travelling was ambushed.

JONATHAN JOSS (December 22, 1965 - June 1, 2025) was an American actor and musician of Native American ancestry. He was best known for his roles as John Redcorn in "King of the Hill" and as Chief Ken Hotate in "Parks and Recreation." He met a violent death. His husband Tristan Kern de Gonzales said a man "started yelling violent homophobic slurs" then opened gunfire when they were visiting their former home, which was destroyed in a fire after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told the couple they would set it on fire."

CHRISTA WINSLOE (23 December 1888 - 10 June 1944), was German-Hungarian lesbian novelist, playwright and sculptor who boldly explored lesbian and gay themes in her writing during the 1930s. In 1939 she fled Nazi Germany to Cote d'Azur, France, to a home she shared with her lover, Swiss author Simone Gentet. There the two women offered temporary support and refuge for people fleeing the Nazis. On June 10, 1944, Winsloe and Gentet were shot and killed in a forest near Clunt by four Frenchmen who claimed they thought the women were Nazi spies.

EDMUND WHITE  (January 13, 1940 - June 3, 2025) - Author who wrote about gay themes and characters. His books were often the first positive depictions of homosexuality that young LGBT people read in the 1980s. His works includes A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, Nocturne for the King of Naples, "The Joy of Gay Sex" and a biography of Jean Genet.

AS VENERABLE SAINT

BJÖRN ANDRÉSEN  (26 January 1955 – 25 October 2025) was a Swedish actor and musician. He is best known for having played the 14-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation of the 1912 Thomas Mann novella "Death In Venice."

AS BLESSED SAINT

KENT GIBSON (died 25 October 2025) was a prominent Hollywood film and television sound designer and mixer who was active in the Hollywood Temple of Antinous.