Dead Christ
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| - | {{Template}} | + | [[Image:The Dead Christ by Annibale Carracci.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Dead Christ (Annibale Carracci)|The Dead Christ]]'' ([[1582]]) by [[Annibale Carracci]]]] |
| - | '''James Kirkup''', [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]] (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009) was a prolific [[English poet]], [[translator]] and [[travel writer]], best-known for his controversial poem ''[[The Love that Dares to Speak its Name]]'', which describes a [[sexual fantasy]] of a [[homosexual]] soldier for the [[dead Christ]]. The poem was banned in [[1979]] under the [[Blasphemy law in the United Kingdom|UK's blasphemy laws]] after it was published by ''[[Gay News]]'' on [[June 3]], [[1976]]. | + | |
| - | The blasphemous libel charge named Gay News Ltd and the editor, Denis Lemon and was brought by [[Mary Whitehouse]], founder and first president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association. Following the trial ([[R. v. Lemon]]) Lemon received a nine-month suspended jail sentence. | + | [[Image:Mantegna Andrea Dead Christ.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Mantegna)|Lamentation over the Dead Christ]]'' (c. [[1480]]) by [[Andrea Mantegna]]]] |
| - | In 1996, Britain's [[Crown Prosecution Service]] began an investigation that had been initiated by the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (renamed [[mediawatch-uk]]), over a hypertext link to Kirkup's poem on the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement's web site. (The site was closed down for financial reasons in March 1996.) | + | {{Template}} |
| - | + | :''[[death]], [[Christ]], [[Crucifixion of Jesus]]'' | |
| - | In 1997, the charges against the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement were formally dropped. | + | # [[The Dead Christ]] |
| + | # [[Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Mantegna)]] | ||
| + | # [[Dead Christ (Palmezzano)]] | ||
| + | # [[Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Botticelli)]] | ||
| + | # [[Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Saints (Botticelli)]] | ||
| + | # [[The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb]] | ||
| + | # [[The Deposition (Michelangelo)]] | ||
| + | # [[The Entombment of Christ (Caravaggio)]] | ||
| + | # [[The Deposition (Raphael)]] | ||
| - | Kirkup is a frequent contributor to the [[obituary]] section of the British newspaper, [[The Independent]]. | ||
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- The Deposition (Michelangelo)
- The Entombment of Christ (Caravaggio)
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