All the great photos Dave has posted that are at least indirectly reminiscent of the story of Jacob wrestling with the angel remind me that this is also the title of a very fine anthology of essays by gay male writers on the connections between their spiritual life and their sexuality. It's published by Riverhead Books and edited by Brian Bouldree. It's so striking to me that this is first Judeo-Christian narrative that comes to mind for so many queer men when they start looking for themselves in Scripture. I guess because it's so obviously tactile and physical; and yet it seems to trump many of the other possibilities: the David and Jonathan romance (what else could you call it?); a cross-gender identification with Ruth and Naomi; the tenderness between Jesus and the Beloved Disciple (probably Lazarus, not John) in the Fourth Gospel; the centurion pleading for the healing of his "boy"; and why exactly was that young man wrapped in nothing but a linen cloth and ran away naked from Gethsemane when the soldiers showed up in the Passion account in Mark? (Arguably, that'd be Lazarus again.)