The scene during Friday's ceremony featured DJ and producer Barbara Butch — an LGBTQ+ icon — flanked by drag artists and dancers.

An organizer of the Paris Olympics said that the drag performance during Friday’s opening ceremony was a nod to Greek mythology, not the “Last Supper.”  Thomas Jolly, the artistic director for the

The tableau included a woman in the role of Jesus and drag queens and gay icons as disciples. It was crashed by a man in blue as Dionysus, the Greek god of revelry.

The bawdy scene, which involved dancers, drag queens and a mostly naked figure covered in blue paint, was decried by religious and conservative groups.

Momentum behind a theory that the tableau depicted a Greek Dionysia had been growing online The post Paris Olympics Producers Confirm ‘The Last Supper’ Inspired That Opening Ceremony Scene: ‘Many Have Done It Before’ appeared first on TheWrap.

The controversial sketch angered the Catholic Church and many on social media, prompting the organisers to explain the logic behind the scene