The Only Thg Gay About 'Last Christmas' Is Gee Michael

Contents:

• THE 21 GAYT CHRISTMAS SONGS
• 27 OF THE GAYT CHRISTMAS SONGS (VIDEO)
• 25 CHRISTMAS SONGS ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND (INTELLIGENT) STRAIGHT PEOPLE KNOW ARE TLY GAY BOPS

THE 21 GAYT CHRISTMAS SONGS

Last week an elementary school teacher Michigan me unr fire when she cid to remove the word "gay" om the classic Christmas rol "Deck The Halls. After parents and others the muny got wd of the change -- and outrage ensued -- the teacher re-serted the supposedly troublome word back to the here at HuffPost Gay Voic believe that when people are aaid of or unfortable wh LGBT people or issu or even words (whether or not the word qutn is actually beg ed relatn to the LGBT muny), sometim the bt tactic is ph for an even greater prence hop of showg we won't be timidated, terred, or, we dug through our rerd llectns (and YouTube) -- to fd the gayt Christmas songs we uld get our hands (and ears) on a lighthearted effort to make thgs a ltle merrier -- and gayer -- this mpy offergs om The Weather Girls and Lady Gaga to songs by gay artists and ins like Gee Michael and Dolly Parton, this is our ltle gift to you this holiday season -- and the perfect playlist for a ftive gay out our selectns the followg slishow, rank them om rnit to most classic, and tell if we missed one of your favor the ments sectn below. They say Christmas is jt 'Straight Halloween, ' but the gays also do our fair share of celebratg!

From classics to brand new songs, om tradnal vers to the gayt lyrics you n thk of, here are 23 of our favore Christmas songs by LGBTQ+ artists to get you the spir this holiday season! The ultimate gay Christmas classic. So this year, or maybe next year, "I" won't make the same mistake and stead give his heart to a real love, someone special, someone who tak him as he is, openly gay.

Fally, the protagonist, now aware that the Lover of last year, who he was so love wh, is the ice-ld ceiver "you", who has broken his heart, has to remd himself that he should give his heart away to someone special, someone servg of his love, who tak him as he is, a real love, not jt a flg wh a closeted gay man.

27 OF THE GAYT CHRISTMAS SONGS (VIDEO)

Rather than wa for Santa Cls to gift a llectn of the gayt Christmas songs, we me up wh one on our hang the mistletoe, pour the egg nog and h play. Time to make the yuleti (and your playlist) gay. We’ve lost track of how many tim we’ve heard this song the GAY TIMES office.

Big Freedia – Santa Is A Gay Man. This recent entry onto our ftive playlists om sex-posive bisexual hyperpop star Slayyyter, who’s bee a favoure of the gays over the past year.

25 CHRISTMAS SONGS ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND (INTELLIGENT) STRAIGHT PEOPLE KNOW ARE TLY GAY BOPS

Though Michael later me out as gay, the origal vio for the song picts the pop superstar exchangg glanc wh a woman.

Michael, who died 2016, may have had to prent “a safer, more acceptable versn of himself” to make the song a h three s ago, he add, notg, “I wanted to reclaim the story of ‘Last Christmas’ that I had always imaged as a young boy and make a new mic vio om a gay lover’s perspective. Bent Ragl via Getty ImagThough Longoria is openly gay, he admted to havg some ncerns about filmg the vio at first.

“I found myself worryg about beg ‘too gay’ ont of passers-by, ” he said.