Cathedral gay film fury

The Catholic University of La Plata has said it wholeheartedly supports Archbishop Héctor Aguer who condemned as “abominable” the filming of a gay video in the city’s cathedral, writes Isabel de Bertodano.

The video shows a gay activist transvestite and a Peruvian singer known as “Tigress of the Orient”, dressed in a skimpy leopard-skin outfit. The pair dance and sing in the cathedral aisles, kneel for “confession” and declare themselves “goddesses of sexual desire”. The video was made surreptitiously to promote a gay bar.

Following a homily on the matter, Archbishop Aguer was widely reported as declaring homosexuality “an abomination”, triggering an official complaint against him from Argentina’s National Anti-Discrimination Institute. “What happened was extremely serious and I described it as abominable,” he wrote in reply. “They made a parody of confession and the Eucharist.” The university council thanked him for his “courage and wisdom in the face of the desecration of our cathedral”.