Meaning of yuletide gay
Making the Yuletide Show Gay: Evaluating 2020’s Queer Christmas Narratives
When The Happiest Season debuted on Hulu in November, having been shuffled to the streaming service after the COVID-19 pandemic closed cinemas around the world, the significance of its launch was somewhat muted. It was originally touted as the first major studio lesbian romantic comedy, following in the footsteps of 2017’s Love, Simon in breaking new earth for queer visibility within genres exclusively imagined as heterosexual in a theatrical context. And while that fact essentially remains true, the set at Christmas film’s move to Hulu obscured that distinction, meaning The Happiest Season launched at a period when Netflix and an increasingly huge number of cable channels are releasing a slew of holiday rom-coms. This places the film it into a different 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 this holiday season.
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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 confuse carols with hymns. Hymns are specifically religious, but carols don’t need to possess 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 wrong reasons.
I imagine that this has happened in other places at other times, but in December 2011 a music instructor at the Cherry Knoll Elementary University in Traverse Urban area, Michigan, decided her young pupils would not sing the traditional line in the carol that goes “Don we know our male lover apparel”. The reason she gave was that the children kept giggling every tim
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Make the Yuletide Gay : 1
We’ll start with the very song which inspired the title of this Advent series, a line from the popular ballad “Have Yourself A Merry Minuscule Christmas”.
The song was written by Hugh Martin for the 1944 film “Meet Me In St. Louis”. It was sung by the film’s star, that excellent gay icon Judy Garland. It quickly became a regular Christmas standard. The lines from the song go like 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 person film director Vicente Min