Our Lady of Controversy

Ru, Jim. Virginia Guadalupe. 1990. A bearded drag queen version of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Titled “Virginia Guadalupe,” the painting was displayed in his show “Transcendent Faith: Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Saints” in Bisbee Arizona in the 1990s. If the Virgin Mary could appear to an Aztec as an Aztec, then why not show up to a queer as a queer?

Ru, Jim. Virginia Guadalupe. 1990.

A bearded drag queen version of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Titled “Virginia Guadalupe,” the painting was displayed in his show “Transcendent Faith: Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Saints” in Bisbee Arizona in the 1990s. If the Virgin Mary could appear to an Aztec as an Aztec, then why not show up to a queer as a queer?

06/25/12
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    WERK!! GURL!!! Ru, Jim. Virginia Guadalupe. 1990.
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    Ru, Jim. Virginia Guadalupe. 1990.
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    This is what I want my Latin American Studies thesis to be on
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    touché
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    Incorporated this image into my research paper last year and I got an A. AWW YEA.
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la virgen de guadalupe  jim ru  virginia guadalupe 

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