Illustrator Caleb created wonderful depictions of Jewish-Muslim same-sex couples (porkironandwine/twitter and twitter)
An illustrator has gone viral by creating gay art which depicts same-sex couples with one Jew and one Muslim.
Caleb, a self-described “brown trans guy” who wants to be a comic illustrator, has attracted more than 70,000 retweets and likes with the drawings—as well as abuse.
That didn’t stop him though, he said, tweeting: “I deleted this after receiving a lot of messages from strangers telling me that I deserved to die for being religious and LGBT, but I’ve decided to repost.”
Caleb reposted the drawings, saying: “I’m done being scared of homophobes” (porkironandwine/twitter)
The artist followed this up with a message of love rooted in the Torah and the Quran respectively, writing: “B’tezelem Elohim (In God’s image), and We were made in Pairs.”
Caleb targeted with abuse for creating religious gay art
Caleb also tweeted that “Twitter has done nothing to get rid of these abusive people after I reported them,” attaching screenshots of the abuse he has suffered for making gay art.
“I’m done being scared of homophobes,” he added.
This abuse included many tweets from people telling Caleb that they had asked God or Allah to punish him in horrific ways.
Caleb’s illustration of Muslim and Jewish women forming a lesbian couple (porkironandwine/twitter)
One hoped that “your legs are broken, may your crops disappear, may G-d cover your cities under the oceans.”
Another asked their god to “destroy your spinal fluid you’ll be disabled forever you filthy bastard delete that s**t right now.”
And one other particularly horrible post called for Allah to “bring down the equivalent of the Black Death, Ebola, cholera and dengue (HIV is already done) on these people who blaspheme, divide the peoples and make authorised what is blameworthy!”
Caleb praised for drawing religious gay art
However, the hatred was overwhelmed by a tidal wave of positive feedback about Caleb’s work.