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• 10 QUEER CHRISTMAS SONGS TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY AF
• THE 21 GAYT CHRISTMAS SONGS
• 25 CHRISTMAS SONGS ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND (INTELLIGENT) STRAIGHT PEOPLE KNOW ARE TLY GAY BOPS
• MERRY CHRISTMAS GAY
• 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

10 QUEER CHRISTMAS SONGS TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY AF

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. ALL IS MERRY AND GAY.

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THE 21 GAYT CHRISTMAS SONGS

Queer advot, openly-gay men, and group lead sgers Mch Grassi and Stt Hoyg are darlgs of the queer muny and give the group a never-fail energy that’s jt fect. [Verse 1]Deck the halls wh boughs of hollyFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la'Tis the season to be jollyFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laDon we now our gay apparelFa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-laTroll the ancient Yule-ti rolFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la[Verse 2]See the blazg Yule before Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laStrike the harp and jo the chosFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laFollow me merry measureFa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-laWhile I tell of Yule-ti treasureFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la[Verse 3]Fast away the old year passFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laHail the new year, lads and lassFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laSg we joyo, all togetherFa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-laHeedls of the wd and weatherFa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-laHow to Format Lyrics:Type out all lyrics, even repeatg song parts like the chosLyrics should be broken down to dividual lUse sectn hears above different song parts like [Verse], [Chos], alics (<i>lyric</i>) and bold (<b>lyric</b>) to distguish between different volists the same song partIf you don’t unrstand a lyric, e [? 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.

Have yourself a merry ltle Christmas, make the Yuleti gay. That’s also why I have always believed that Christmas mic is super gay. “Make It Jgle” — Big Freedia“Make It Jgle” is the rare gay Christmas banger that explicly enurag you to shake your ass to .

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

Of urse, helps that Gee Michael himself was gay. But the song is gay longg distilled to s purt form, om that synth riff to the sger’s own admissn that if his ex-lover kissed him now, he’d fool him aga.

“All I Want For Christmas Is You” — Mariah CareyIt’s ironic that one of the most inic Christmas songs of all time is one that explicly rejects much of the holiday hullabaloo, and that’s part of what mak so gay.

“Merry Christmas, Darlg” — The Carpenters In addn to Karen Carpenter beg a gay in, the lyrics of this song are for every queer person who has had to swallow their sadns at beg unable to spend the holidays wh their loved one: “We’re apart, that’s te / But I n dream and my dreams / I’m Christmasg wh you. ” — Sufjan StevensAlthough n be difficult at tim to parse whether any given Sufjan song is gay or about God, I thk ’s safe to say that this one is fively gay. Although “Gltery” sgs of a love that has already been fulfilled, there’s somethg about the moody edge to this song — pl Sivan beg there — that mak this song so gay my md.

MERRY CHRISTMAS GAY

Look, you n say a lot of thgs about Glee, but let’s be real: havg two gay high school-aged characters ver this beloved, ually extremely heterosexual song on primetime TV 2010 was, dare I say, brave.

Y, of urse, there’s the classic lyric “make the Yuleti gay. Be gay, do crime, as the kids say.

But ’s fely for many of the gays. In the first verse, she fantasiz about dyeg her hair, movg somewhere, gettg a r, and drivg so fast that “they” all lose track — also known as some of the re gay pg mechanisms. TV holiday rom-s have bee a ttage dtry over the last 20 years, so some may be surprised ’s taken this long for Hallmark and Lifetime to send jad gay urban home for Christmas to fd the love of their mastream holiday movi are largely aimed at straight women, wh predictable plots and sackfuls of stereotyp about relatnships, genr rol, fay and “the te meang of Christmas.

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

Below, we celebrate a dozen movi that make the yuleti jt a ltle b gayer. In a si plot, Everett’s gay af brother reveals that he and his partner are planng to “The Fay Stone” don’t revent the holiday movie, do shake up nventns about expectatns when to romance. 'Make the Yuleti Gay' (2009)College stunt Gunn (Keh Jordan) is totally out at school, but he hasn’t gotten around to tellg his Midwtern fay that he’s gay and that his “roommate, ” Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero of "Degrassi"), is actually his boyiend.

"Williams plays Ebony Scrooge, a succsful but nasty R&B sger who mends her ways wh the help of three spectral visors, cludg gay fave Kathy Griff as the Ghost of Christmas Past. 'Some of My Bt Friends Are…' (1971)You might have some trouble fdg this low-budget holiday gem om wrer-director Mervyn Nelson, but ’ll be worth the effort: A group of regulars gather at the Blue Jay, a Greenwich Village gay bar, on Christmas Eve Rue McClanahan, Fannie Flagg, trans pneer Candy Darlg and Gary Sanrs of “WKRP Ccnati, ” “Some of My Bt Friends Are…” is an astonishgly ndid time psule of the Stonewall era that remds that gays have been fg chosen fai for generatns.

No, not Rudolph — I’m referrg to Hermey, the misf elf who wants to qu Santa’s workshop to be a gay subtext this stop-motn classic om Rank/Bass is pretty hard to miss — even before bearish lumberjack Yon Corneli tak Rudolph and Hermey to the Island of Misf Toys. As Tommy, the acerbic gay black sheep of the Larson fay who nohels gets a love tert (of sorts). Who needs Bg Crosby and Rosemary Clooney when you’ve got a morn tearjerker touchg on gay relatnships, HIV/AIDS, substance abe, gentrifitn and more — all the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve?