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Making the Yuletide Movie Gay: Evaluating &#;s Queer Christmas Narratives
When The Happiest Season debuted on Hulu in November, having been shuffled to the streaming service after the COVID pandemic closed cinemas around the world, the significance of its release was somewhat muted. It was originally touted as the first major studio lesbian romantic comedy, following in the footsteps of ’s Love, Simon in breaking new ground for queer representation within genres exclusively imagined as heterosexual in a theatrical context. And while that fact essentially remains right, the set at Christmas film’s move to Hulu obscured that distinction, meaning The Happiest Season launched at a time when Netflix and an increasingly large number of cable channels are releasing a slew of holiday rom-coms. This places the movie it into a adj conversation about how the snowy cottage industry of “Cable Christmas Movies” is navigating similar questions of inclusion, with three channels (Hallmark, Lifetime, and Paramount Network) also using queerness as a point of articulation t
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We&#;ll start with the very song which inspired the title of this Advent series, a line from the accepted song &#;Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas&#;.
The lyric was written by Hugh Martin for the film &#;Meet Me In St. Louis&#;. It was sung by the film&#;s star, that great gay icon Judy Garland. It instantly became a regular Christmas standard. The lines from the song go prefer this :
&#;Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Make the yuletide gay.
From now on our troubles will be miles away&#;.
The song&#;s original lyrics were not so optimistic. The opening lines were :
&#;Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
It may be your last.
Next year we may all be living in the past.&#;
Very jolly &#; I don&#;t think!
Thankfully, Judy Garland and her soon-to-be husband, the film&#;s bisexual film d
Make the Yuletide Gay: Navigating the Holidays as a Queer Person
On Thursday, December 5th, my church hosted its first-ever Holiday Blues service, a time for members and guests to sit honestly with the grief they feel around the holidays.
Some had lost a loved one earlier this year and were navigating the holidays without that special person for the first time. Others were grieving the decrease of relationships, career transitions, estrangement from family, and things shared only between themselves and God.
During the service, we took period to light candles on the altar to honor the people we’d lost or other griefs we carry. As I approached the altar, my heart was heavy with relational grief–old wounds, to be sure, but still painful all the same.
I lit a candle for each member of my bio-family and one for the surrogate family I had in college, who cut me out of their life after I came out. It has been years since I have talked with any of them, but the holidays always seem to stir up those griefs I assume will someday stop hurting.
Maybe.
The holidays are complicated for me
Make the Yuletide Gay : 2
One of the things I enjoyed quite a lot when I was young was going carol singing with my siblings. We visited neighbours houses in the dark evenings and serenaded them with our favourite carols. As a teenager I joined my local Methodist youth club in carolling around the rural village where I was brought up.
Most people verb carols with hymns. Hymns are specifically religious, but carols don&#;t need to have any religious content at all and yet still be seasonal. Today&#;s subject is one such carol and one of the most popular &#; &#;Deck the Halls&#;. It also caused a bit of a stir in an American school and a major retail chain for all the incorrect reasons.
I imagine that this has happened in other places at other times, but in December a music teacher at the Cherry Knoll Elementary Educational facility in Traverse City, Michigan, decided her young pupils would not sing the traditional line in the carol that goes &#;Don we know our gay apparel&#;. The re