You won’t see an international festival mock Muhammad like this. The ceremonies opening the Olympic Games in Paris went from panic and fury over a coordinated arson attack on the French rail system to a firestorm of controversy over a drag queen show that somehow made it into the program. And a strong dose of apparent sacrilege — in the form of mockery of the Last Supper — just made things worse.
The controversy came over a drag show that featured French drag “star” Nicky Doll (nee ) and his fellow men-pretending-to-be-women watching actual women in a fashion show and staring “fiercely at the models strutting,” according to , the website of the gay and lesbian magazine Out. “In a subsequent segment, Nicky and the other queens were shown actually walking the runway as well,” Out reported. Well, they did more than walk the runway.
The Out.com report didn’t mention it, but they also staged a tableau that was taken by many observers to be a sendup of classic depictions of the Last Supper, the meal Jesus ate with the apostles before his betrayal and crucifixion — and the institution of the Christian sacrament of Communion. Just in: The 2024 Olympic Games featured imagery involving women and drag queens at the opening ceremony re-creating the last supper.
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) Drag Queens mock Christianity as they recreate Jesus’ Last Supper during the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony. — Oli London (@OliLondonTV) Wtf is going on.