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While I love your re-reading of the Adam/Eve story, I think it’s a bit solipsistic to think that God would create two, mutually incompatible, versions of Paradise. So long as you’ve to create an alternative Eden I’m afraid your vision of gay life would always remain an alternative lifestyle (choice), and therefore remain peripheral.

Perhaps Adam and Steve could be incorporated into the original Edenic vision (it’s Sumerian I believe): they could be the ones tempted by the evil couple Adam/Eve and then turn on themselves (which would fit the bill of two bitchy queens quarrelling as ex-lovers). Or, better still in a postmodern context, they could be living quite peacefully with everyone else that inhabits the land.

Perhaps they could be two modern DJs spinning tunes for the Garden Party or a bunch of economists trying to squeeze the last cent out of the national budget to keep the myth of a capitalist Paradise afloat, while everybody else eats of the Tree of Knowledge and so are condemned to a less-than-heavenly life about them.

Here’s another one: since in the original narrative Adam and Eve are condemned to a life of drudgery and loneliness, how about having Adam and Steve toil amidst today’s homophobia and distrust by making them discover their sexuality with women? Hey, wait a minute, that actually happens in real life!