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THE 21 GAYT CHRISTMAS SONGS

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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.

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SCROOGE AND MARLEY (2012): THE GAY CHRISTMAS CAROL

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And that’s jt one of the reimaged ias a new gay-iendly retellg of Charl Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol. As Canfield tells , “ his later years, Kramer had wrten all the books about how everyone was gay. And thought, what gay man don’t have a lady iend guidg him?

Scrooge & Marley is a gay-themed versn of the Dickens classic. Scrooge & Marley is an openly and liberately gay adaptatn of the Dickens story.

It often falls to the trap of g s gay narrative as a gimmick rather than a theme but that risk jt go wh the terrory when a creative team is locked to followg a prevly mapped-out storyle.

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The film is set the fairly prent day and opens up at Ebenezer Scrooge’s gay nightclub lled Screws. His performance is sort of like a gay Horror Movie Host om late-night televisn of long ago. This Ghost shows Scrooge his heart-breakg home life, endg when he got thrown out by his parents when they learned he was gay.

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Cult figure Bce Vilanch tak on the role of Fezziwig, who ns the eponymo gay bar at which Scrooge works durg the Dis age.

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Outsi of that the movie petently offers a gay-oriented Christmas Carol adaptatn which avoids beg any more preachy than Dickens himself was wh the origal story. Christmas 2020 is the gayt Christmas ever. This holiday season has gifted dienc wh four—y, four—gay Christmas roms: Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe, Hulu’s Happit Season, Lifetime’s The Christmas Set-Up (December 12), and Paramount’s Dashg December (December 13).

There have been more mastream gay holiday roms released 2020 than every other year rerd pop culture history bed.

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Gays didn’t jt startg lovg Christmas this year. “I thk when they said make the Yuleti gay, they meant , ” said Jonathan Bent, one half of the gay uple at the heart of Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe.

By featurg a married gay uple ont and center (Brad Harr plays Bent’s onscreen spoe), the film is a major step forward for the work.

'” The works—Hallmark, Lifetime, Paramount—fally donned their gay apparel, jtifyg s of passn for this historilly heteronormative holiday.

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Bee, honey, the gays have always been here for Christmas—even if Christmas hasn’t always been here for . “It’s so classic, so typil that the queer muni have often loved a lot of the stutns that have not necsarily loved back, ” said Ben Lewis, the other half of The Christmas Setup’s gay power uple, sharg a sentiment echoed by pretty much everyone else terviewed.

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And so I thk for gay men, I thk even for Christmas enthiasts, I thk we’re chasg after that childhood fort and safety that maybe we missed at that time. Victor Garber—a hero to a generatn of gay people thanks to his work on Broadway, Tanic, Alias, Legends of Tomorrow, and jt beg Victor Garber—played straight Happit Season as closeted Harper Caldwell’s uptight polician father.

I remember meetg a lot of gay kids when I was growg up who weren’t so happy about Christmas and, not unlike Happit Season, would have to go home and pretend [to be straight]. “Your hoe be this other thg for this season, ” said Lee, touchg upon many gay men’s reason for the season. That seri—Holiday Home Makeover—serv a different purpose 2020’s avalanche of gay ntent.

That show is hosted by an out gay man who sually refers to his partner ont of the straight fai he’s been tasked to make merry.

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Seeg a gay man openly talk his your same-sex partner at Christmas around strangers?

That’s a transformative notn for a lot of gay people. Even if gay dienc haven’t seen leral gay characters on screen, we still have our touchston. Benjam Bradley lov Christmas Connecticut for gay in Barbara Stanwyck, and Na Wt returns to Whe Christmas every year thanks to the looks and stunts of Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney.

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BenDeLaCreme realized as an adult that Christmas at Pee-wee’s Playhoe is “the gayt thg, ” part bee “Miss Yvonne is the bt Christmas drag queen anyone uld ever hope for.

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Frank Oz, for example, is not a gay man, but somehow created Miss Piggy, who is the most inic, most nonil ‘gay’ character. ” While thkg aloud, Lewis realized why so many Christmas specials seem so low-key gay. “There is somethg very gay about puppetry and stop motn animatn, jt general.

Particularly wh stop motn — to put that amount of pastakg tail, the amount of hand glterg that mt have gone to the makg of any one of those movi, is textbook gay. “He’s this amazg bchy gay guy!

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