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This is such a great write-up! Thank you for posting this. "Losing My Religion" has been part of the soundtrack of my life and its ability to be interpreted as a coming-out metaphor helped me on my own coming-out journey.

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Thank you Dan! That is beautiful to hear.

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Really interesting! "Losing My Religion" is one of my all-time favorite songs. The video was always a bit elusive to me but I had my own personal connection to the song relating it a bit to my now husband. So I never bothered to analyze it. Thanks for your interpretation!

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Just to add to the queer associations with Saint Sebastian -- Yukio Mishima: https://www.reddit.com/r/museum/comments/650vcf/kishin_shinoyama_yukio_mishima_as_st_sebastian/

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Having lived in Athens during the release of this album and witnessing its cultural reverberations, I read this and realized it is as if the song took on a life of its own in pop culture history. I took "losing my religion" first in its southern expression as in I'm about to blow a gasket. Great examples of the symbolism and iconography associated with this song.

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