I came across this post about a poster promo for the Folsom Street Fair tomorrow as a part of the San Francisco Leather Week.
The poster is supposedly a “distinctive” play on the famous Leonardo painting “The Last Supper”, but instead of Jesus and his twelve disciples, it features well-known, sado-masochistic, leather fetish members of the community.
To clear the whole blasphemy cry off the table: the poster probably doesn’t offend God. Ask Him. Perhaps the lifestyle and choices the poster/week/festival promote offend Him, but not the poster itself. It’s merely a crappy photo made by a puny human being. This supposedly original and clever poster is only really mocking Leonardo da Vinci. And based on some historians’ accounts, I’m not sure he’d mind all that much anyway. *wink *wink.
Anyway, it’s interesting to note that it’s partially funded by a hotel tax on San Franciscans.
The subculture of society that the Folsom Street Fair celebrates is not an ethnic group or a religious group, it is a group of people who share similar tastes and preferences regarding sexuality. This is how the money is justified. The Fair and the Week are considered celebrations of art and diversity.
Really? Do fetishes count as art and culture?
This year, the official poster uses well-known community members as players in an innovative version of the culturally iconographic “Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci.
~ Folsom Street Fair
I think it’s funny when people think they’re innovative when they rip off a famous work of art.
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