#i love st sebastian but iconography is weird

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I went to the talk page on St. Sebastian’s wiki page to see if I could figure out why exactly he’s been taken a gay icon, aside from ‘because he’s painted like a twink’, and someone posited:

I have read about the connection before in an academic text. It mentioned the symbolic significance of his body being penetrated by arrows and surviving, before an incredulous world (which kills him anyway).

So now I’m crying, thanks.

#i love st sebastian but iconography is weird #seb's religion tag