"Last Christmas" is very specifilly a GAY song about two men

Contents:

• THE 21 GAYT CHRISTMAS SONGS
• IS LAST CHRISTMAS A GAY SONG BY GEE MICHAEL?
• 25 CHRISTMAS SONGS ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND (INTELLIGENT) STRAIGHT PEOPLE KNOW ARE TLY GAY BOPS
• "LAST CHRISTMAS" IS VERY SPECIFILLY A GAY SONG ABOUT TWO MEN

THE 21 GAYT CHRISTMAS SONGS

It is an odd staple of holiday rad; while is certaly not the only holiday classic to al wh lonels, alienatn and more mature them like adultery, is one of the few holiday pop standards to evoke issu of gay lonels and alienatn -- possibly beg the only gay popular Christmas song.

There are few vers by gay or queer artists that have ma wav wh the public nscns; Savage Garn's Darren Hay chucked a versn onto a Rosie O'Donnell Christmas album that fell to the barga b of 90s ephemera.

IS LAST CHRISTMAS A GAY SONG BY GEE MICHAEL?

A cursory google of the words "Grdr" and "lonels" together yields handfuls of articl and psychologil studi gog as far back as 2010 that all seem to say the same thg: for all the good the digal age has done brgg closer together, gay and queer men feel further and further alienated om one another. The burgeong remr of palism's stranglehold on our general well-beg and terpersonal relatnships that Christmas brgs, as well as the relived trma of fay fightg that, for many queer folks, rears s ugly head wh the holiday season, crystallize the prism of gay lonels that is "Last Christmas.

Sger and former 80s heartthrob Gee Michael was arrted by an unrver police officer for cisg anonymoly for gay sex a public bathroom, outg himself as gay (though the sger claims he's had signifint relatnships wh women) and solidified himself the years after as a gay in.

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

But the world of 2015 reprents signifint progrs ma -- bis the advanc ma the life expectancy of those livg wh HIV and AIDS, the HIV preventn pill Tvada has ma great stris providg gay and queer men wh accs to early preventn -- though is by no means a perfect dg, and heavy bate has arisen wh queer muni regards to the impact Tvada has had on the sex practic of gay and queer men.

Is Gee Michael, or some other tragedy-stricken gay man, watchg his love life fall apart om the keyhole of the closet door? Only two Christmas songs have tly affected me as an adult -- this, and transgenr sger Antony Hegarty's ver of John Lennon & Yoko Ono's "Happy Xmas (War is Over), " performed wh Michael's ra gay 80s in Boy Gee. 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.

"LAST CHRISTMAS" IS VERY SPECIFILLY A GAY SONG ABOUT TWO MEN

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.