Gay-themed tours of the Sistine Chapel are propaganda: expert
English: Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Français : La Pietà de Michel-Ange située dans la Basilique Saint-Pierre, au Vatican. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) “Gay” tours of Rome’s major sites, including St. Peter’s Basilica and Vatican Museums , have been a feature of the Roman tourism scene for years. Websites offering exclusive “private & gay” guides are easy to find and well-established. While “Luca” the gay tour guide gives little hint on his website as to any particular sexual content in his tours, Quiiky , the Italian gay tourism operator featured recently in the Guardian newspaper , offers clients the chance “to experience gay Rome.” In the blog post at the Guardian, the UK’s leftist flagship newspaper, Jonathan Jones called the Quiiky tour a “welcome sign of changing attitudes,” in Italy . He states blandly, “ Michelangelo was gay,” citing the “copious visual and written evidence about his unconcealed sexual identity.” He goes o