Really Gay Christmas Songs

Contents:

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

THE 21 GAYT CHRISTMAS SONGS

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!

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

The ultimate gay Christmas classic. GAY TIMES. Happy Holigays om ours to yours!

GAY CHRISTMAS COMPILATN

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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. 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.

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

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.

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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.

WHICH IS THE GAYT CHRISTMAS SONG?

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. Daily Beast wrer Kev Fallon scrib the timg as "a morbid way to learn of the Brish pop star and gay in's ath.

For another, he was a shape-shifter, jumpg om one style to another to another, adaptg to every ocsn and any dience, dg queerns to every stch and translatg what he uldn’t say to body language — all of which is probably still faiar choreography to any gay teen.

Dpe Michael not g out publicly until the late 1990s, and spe my dad pchg my ssette of “Fah” the trash after skimmg the lyrics to “I Want Your Sex, ” Gee Michael was as close to a gay uncle as I had — well before I knew I need such a the generatn that followed the generatn nearly wiped out by AIDS, the loss of so many stars ma our nights that much darker.

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

Beyond Michael’s mil versatily — or, rather, at the heart of — was his voice: that suo but steely tenor iled around a molten re of gay words yawn over too great a distance to be parsed to anythg much — like long cirs clouds you n’t fathom to animals. 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.