Forbidden fruit Adam and Eve upon expelling them from the Garden. "By that with which they were made low were they rectified." Since the fig is a long-standing symbol of female sexuality, it enjoyed a run as a favorite understudy to the apple as the forbidden fruit during the Italian Renaissance. The most famous depiction of the fig as the forbidden fruit was painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti in his masterpiece fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Proponents of the theory that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in what is now known as the Middle East suggest that the fruit was
Strange Fruit: A Dutch Queer Collective as a group universal instead of looking at what divides them and marginalizes them. Strange Fruit did not just consist of queer Muslim men but consisted of African, Middle Eastern, Afro-Dutch, Asians, Asian-Dutch and women. There were no limitations on who could join or become involved it was an open and welcoming space (Tayeb: 130). Members of Strange Fruit members tended to be ethnic youth who lived under "precarious conditions" and were often involved in "sex work" (Tayeb: 130). The group was sensitive to that and catered and offered support in light of this issue. They offered a broad spectrum