What Makes the Yuletide Gay?
What's not to love about Christmas, especially if you're a gay man? Tinsel, ribbons and Garland - specifically, Judy's 1963 Christmas show! And when we watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer who didn't feel a connection with Herbie the Elf and the toys found on the Island of Misfit Toys? Then there's the beloved Christmas carol, Deck the Halls. Not only does it have the fabulous line, "Don we now our gay apparel", but a chorus of "fa la la la la, la la la la" to boot! Besides that song, we also embrace Christmas music in general, especially if it's sung by the Carpenters or Julie Andrews. And who can forget the Salsoul Orchestra's classic Christmas Jollies album?
However, I must admit there is one aspect of Christmas I don't embrace, and that is wrapping presents. Although I love beautiful wrapping paper, I've never developed a flair for transforming a package into a work of art - and I have no patience whatsoever when it comes to ribbons and bows. (I'm more of a brown paper packages tied up with string kind of guy.) I guess when they were handing out the Martha Stewart gene I must have been in the line for liking baseball. But let's not dwell on "bah humbug". Rather, with dreams of sugar plums dancing in my head, here's a ZeitGAYst toast to the Christmas season ....
- From the movie White Christmas (not to be confused with Holiday Inn), the wonderful number "Sisters" was performed by Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen and then, hilariously, by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye ...
- A "Glee"-ful Christmas. And who can forget Kurt and Blake's spicy duet of Baby It's Cold Outside from the show's 2010 Christmas episode?
- Here's some gay apparel ...
- Tzabaco was one of a number of catalogs in the early to mid 1990s that was targeted to gay and lesbian shoppers (Shocking Gray was another). Alas, it didn't survive more than a few years.
- Hats and underwear count as apparel ...
- With names like Dancer & Prancer, can two of Santa's reindeer be anything but gay?
- Although not a movie, per se, about Christmas, a key scene early in John Waters' Female Trouble takes place on Christmas morning when rebellious high school student Dawn Davenport (played by Divine) goes ballistic on her parents when she doesn't get the "Cha-Cha heels" she so covets.
- And finally, holiday cards from dear, dear friends ...
May all of your Christmases be pink ...
Here are a few other posts I've written with a Christmas theme:
Bette Midler Stars in Holiday Commercial for Honda
Martha Stewart's First Christmas Special
Christmas Ads That Spread Holiday Cheer
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