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Contents:

• THE 21 GAYT CHRISTMAS SONGS
• A GAY SCROOGE? THIS IS HOW TO QUEER “A CHRISTMAS CAROL”
• SCROOGE AND MARLEY (2012): THE GAY CHRISTMAS CAROL
• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
• THE 10 BT GAY/LGBTQIA+ CHRISTMAS MOVI OF ALL TIME
• MERRY XXX-MAS: A MORN GAY SEX CHRISTMAS CAROL #12 (UNABRIDGED‪)‬
• A CHRISTMAS CARL: A GAY RETELLG OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL
• GAY BASEBALL PLAYER AND COUNTRY SGER-SONGWRER BRYAN RUBY BUTS NEW CHRISTMAS ROL DITED TO HIS BOYIEND
• 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
• HALLMARK REVEALS CHRISTMAS MOVIE DETAILS — INCLUDG RETURNG STARS & STORYLE ABOUT GAY COUPLE
• A CHRISTMAS CARL: A GAY RETELLG OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL
• HALLMARK IS TAKG THE GAY OUT OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS

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. 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.

A GAY SCROOGE? THIS IS HOW TO QUEER “A CHRISTMAS CAROL”

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 AND MARLEY (2012): THE GAY CHRISTMAS CAROL

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

THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN

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.

THE 10 BT GAY/LGBTQIA+ CHRISTMAS MOVI OF ALL TIME

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.

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. Bee, honey, the gays have always been here for Christmas—even if Christmas hasn’t always been here for .

MERRY XXX-MAS: A MORN GAY SEX CHRISTMAS CAROL #12 (UNABRIDGED‪)‬

“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. 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].

A CHRISTMAS CARL: A GAY RETELLG OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL

“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.

GAY BASEBALL PLAYER AND COUNTRY SGER-SONGWRER BRYAN RUBY BUTS NEW CHRISTMAS ROL DITED TO HIS BOYIEND

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

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

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. 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. Frank Oz, for example, is not a gay man, but somehow created Miss Piggy, who is the most inic, most nonil ‘gay’ character.

HALLMARK REVEALS CHRISTMAS MOVIE DETAILS — INCLUDG RETURNG STARS & STORYLE ABOUT GAY COUPLE

” 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! All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Gay Leads.

“I thk [Happit Season is] groundbreakg bee ’s an hont-to-god holiday-themed rom that is for queer people, by queer people, ” said Jkx Monsoon of Happit Season, Hulu’s star-studd, major stud gay holiday rom starrg Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis. Gay creators have been tryg to make history for a mute. That may be why he didn’t ially nsir makg Dashg December a gay romance—and then leapt at the chance to make this particular dream e te (a dream starrg out actors starrg Peter Porte and Juan Pablo Di Pace).

A CHRISTMAS CARL: A GAY RETELLG OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL

” This simple tweak opened up the entire story for Helgren, turng what was jt a uple sentenc of plot to a full-fledged screenplay that speaks to not only the holiday season, but to the specific experience of beg gay a small, ral muny.

By stg gay actors, the performers felt embolned to put their own experienc to their characters. The scene that mattered the most to Bent, and every sgle queer person watchg The Christmas Hoe at home, was Brandon and Jake’s kiss—y, a gay kiss on Hallmark.

One of our art partment guys who’s gay me up to me and had tears his ey. Ben Lewis felt pelled to make sure that his character’s emotnal arc Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup would ronate wh gay dienc.

HALLMARK IS TAKG THE GAY OUT OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS

May your gays be merry and bright.

Openly gay filmmaker Todd Hayn has always been an artist -tune wh queer terts. Carol is a sumptuo, heart-rendg romantic film set 1950s New York Cy, a time when homosexualy was eply taboo.