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Netflix’s first gay holiday rom-com
When the holiday season rolls around, I find myself pulled towards the lure of Hallmark-esque Christmas movies. They’re simply irresistible with charming small towns, cheesy romances, and holiday cheer.
Netflix has a wide range of original holiday movies out, and heaps of them are released every November. While I haven’t seen all of them, there certainly are a couple of gems.
Of course, it’s a fair critique to say that these types of movies are very formulaic and cliche. With unrealistic plotlines and predictable twists, the movies are by no means masterpieces. The once brooding love interest will always find the true meaning of Christmas, and any threats to the holiday will be miraculously resolved. However, despite the cheesiness, there is something so lighthearted and fun about these movies that is hard to ignore.
With Christmas approaching, I set out to watch a recent movie.
Number 8 on Netflix’s top ten charts was “Single All The Way,” released December 2nd, The movie centers on two gay best friends trying to navigate the holidays back ho
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 exceptional person for the first time. Others were grieving the loss of relationships, career transitions, estrangement from family, and things shared only between themselves and God.
During the service, we took noun 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 alike .
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 appear to stir up those griefs I assume will someday stop hurting.
Maybe.
The holidays are complicated for me
A History of Gay Halloween (And Why It’s Called “Gay Christmas”)
Why has Halloween caught on so strongly in the LGBTQ2S+ community? One reason could be that LGBTQ2S+ people spend large parts of their lives hiding their authentic selves, and presenting in a way that’s at odds with their desires and identity. Halloween’s emphasis on dressing up as something you’re typically not ends up being a powerful outlet to present ourselves in a way that expresses who you really are. (And if you’re already doing that anyway, Halloween gives you an excuse to turn the dial up to )
What’s the history that led to Halloween’s status as the de facto LGBTQ2S+ holiday? And why is it often called “Gay Christmas,” anyway? Browse on to uncover out!
A history of gay Halloween celebrations
In the November 1, of The Pittsburgh Press, an article described “girls who had donned male attire” being arrested for their transgression against gender norms — or as the article describes it, “appeared at the Central police station and took their medicine.” In , police once again arrested both “women in men’s clothes”
Queer Origins of America’s Favorite Holidays
Before Puritans decided that Christmas and Thanksgiving were wholesome family-oriented festivals, they were X-rated queer sex fests.
Historically, humans hold found ways of dealing with winter, that gross moment of year when it’s bitter frosty, dark at 5 p.m., and depressing as all hell. Not only ways of dealing with it: we’ve set up ways of turning into the adj time of year.
The span of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is filled with excitement, consumerist fervor and eustress for many an American, no matter how bruised and battered we get during the contact sport that is the Jet Friday to Cyber Monday stretch. The last months of the year are our designated moment to chill, verb with family, dish a ton of food, and undertake practically nothing. But believe it or not, the holidays weren’t always so PG. In reality, both Thanksgiving and Christmas have some gay-as-hell origins.
Let’s start with Turkey Day. In addition to being a controversial holiday celebrating the brutal colonization of the Northeast, Thanksgiving is also kind of gay.