Is the grinch gay

What could be gayer than Christmas in Dollywood? The superstar-hosted Christmas special is less common these days — with many lost to time — but thankfully, this one is preserved for all to enjoy on YouTube. It's the third season debut that was the show's own winter wonderland.

This is beginning to make the Grinch’s famous hatred of Christmas significantly more understandable; he’s probably still dealing from the trauma of having to witness a Whoville key party. We've discussed this episode before on Primetimer, but it bears repeating.

The AIDS epidemic shadows the community, but the House of Evangelista is brought together through a triumphant win in the Snow Ball and the love of their compassionate mother Blanca. Schitt's Creek is happy to deliver that message in its own typically sweet-but-snooty fashion.

No, not that deeply underwhelming holiday special from this seemingly indefatigable franchise. In this satirical deep dive, we uncover why the How the Grinch Stole Christmas is secretly the queerest holiday movie ever. Lady Gaga may not remember ArtPopbut with this bizarre cross-promotional special, how could we at home forget?

But when a storm cancels each of their flights, leaving them stuck together for the holiday, the girls discover the importance of something every queer person can relate to: the family you find. It's that time of year when all of the usual holiday classics return to TV, but that shouldn't stop us from adding our own holiday favorites to into the annual rotation.

I was just watching the Grinch and noticed that there was more representation than I expected, and I found it funny that Love, Simon was specifically aimed at the queer community, and of all movies, The Grinch beat it.

The Grinch has an : Her avant garde Christmas gifts — her cat and her jello mold, gift-wrapped in boxes — are nothing short of Warholian statements

Also, it's now official canon: "Surfin' Safari" is a Christmas song. Naturally, the Christmas holiday highlights the "privileged expectations vs. Speaking of chosen families, one of the signature episodes of Pose 's first season was also one of the most important Christmas episodes of all of time for how it examines the specific emotional and financial pains that can strike marginalized people this time of year.

If you're looking among the accepted Christmas canon for possible queer representation, the mean green one is it. This episode also gives us everything we want from Drag Race : a fashion challenge that demands some camp, crackling chemistry between the contestants, and Shangela popping out of a damn box.

You don't even need a holiday album to promote on your holiday special, you can just have a regular ol' pop album. As with most episodes of the Australian comedy series Please Like Methe Season 3 Christmas special is at once funny and tragic, heart-warming and infuriating, and it imbues all those qualities at a Christmas dinner where a dropped gravy boat acts as a dark omen for the rest of the meal.

A Christmas special is already a ripe proposition for Sedaris' brand of winsome subversion, and this episode does not disappoint. She dances with some snowmen and penguins, gets maimed by an evil doll, and Cole Escola's Chassie riffs on the ickiness of "Baby It's Cold Outside".

Whether serving an outright queer narrative, or a straight one with themes that allow for queer appreciation or interpretation, it's time the pantheon of classic holiday television programming was revisited from an LGBTQ point of view. This holiday special arrived shortly after the release of Dolly's holiday album of the same name, and took us through her hometown and amusement park for the kind of unassuming cheer that you'd expect from Ms Parton.

Good for more than some emotional holiday melodrama, it also gives a final moment reveal of singer-songwriter Julianna Hatfield sprouting wings and flying off into a silent night. Josh Thomas's show was a landmark series for those who sought it out, and we all got to spend this particular Christmas agonizing over Josh and Arnold's doomed romance.

Most shows default to an expected "so long as we're together" story on their Christmas specials, a theme that is a natural fit to what the series is about. Plus, Jane Krakowski sings about glue. True to form, this holiday episode finds the Miami foursome's Christmas plans delayed by armed robbery and Blanche's quaking horniness at the sight of any man in a Santa suit.

It's a bittersweet new essential Christmas classic.