Transsexual virgins in new Madrid Lay Calendar
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By h.b. - Oct 17, 2009 - 11:48 AM
The calendar has been produced by the Madrid Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual collective COGAM

Controversy in Madrid with the launch of a 2010 lay calendar which shows images of ‘transsexual virgins’ recreating religious scenes decorated with crowns, condoms and phallic symbols.

The lay calendar takes the religion out of the dates of the year, so Christmas Day becomes the day you eat the traditional Spanish turron to mark International Democracy Day, for example.

The images are all based on famous Catholic images and iconography.
The Venezuelan photographer who assembled the calendar, Juan Antinoo, had been commissioned by COGAM, the Gay, Lesbian, Transexual and Bisexual Collective in Madrid. He told El Mundo that the idea was to break the moulds of the generation which had been brought up with a Catholic education. He said he was not worried that he would be called irreverent.

‘What really concerns me is that message of the importance of using a condom gets out there.’

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