A Holy Week poster in Seville, Spain has sparked controversy and controversy on social media and international media as some people believe the image is a depiction of Jesus Christ. “campy and sexy.”

The image, created by artist Salusiano García, shows Jesus with a beautiful face and a well-defined beard, in addition, his whole chest is exposedand his groin is covered with a blanket, due to which his thighs are visible.

Its design sparked outrage from the Institute for Social Policy (IPSE), which called the work “a real disgrace and an aberration.”“manipulate” and “sexualize” a religious figurestatements that were supported by some people on social networks.

In Italy, some media outlets echoed the unrest, such as the Public News Agency. ANSAwhich spoke of a “dispute” over working “with the risen young Christ, crowned with three ears of corn and barely covered with a white cloth.”

Other media outlets, such as Il Messaggero, went even further and described it as a “fierce controversy” over the “gay Christ of Holy Week in Seville” with the appearance of a “gay Christ of Holy Week in Seville”. iconic model taken from queer culture“.

On the afternoon of January 27, the dispute moved to a new level when the user launched collecting signatures demanding the removal of the poster, that yesterday on Monday he already had almost 10 thousand adhesions.

The author responded to this criticism by assuring that his intention in creating the poster was to “announce Holy Week, which is the function of any poster,” by ““Young, handsome Christ, without traces of his torture.”with his son Horacio as a model.

The mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz, considered the controversy “artificial” and defended the author, whom he classified as one of the country’s most prominent contemporary artistsemphasizing that when the poster was commissioned, “everyone” knew his work.

“There are bolder posters, there are more classic posters, there are bolder posters (…) and I like this one.”

She was also defended by representatives of LGBTI groups, such as Manolo Rosado, president of the State Network of Proud Municipalities, who applauded the poster, calling it “groundbreaking.”

Among the people who defended the artist at the time was Sira Lopez, then coordinator of the Andalusian Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders Andalusia Diversity, who expressed regret that some of the criticisms contained homophobic terms with the words: “clear hate crime”against his background.

(according to information from EFE And A.N.)