Gay yuletide

The truth of the matter is we all queer or not have challenges in our relationships. The social hall buzzed not with small talk but with deep, meaningful connection. The holidays are complicated for me. You see a clip of one of those old-school claymation holiday classics and remember where you were when you watched that same movie as a child—the last Christmas your family was healthy.

The Sunday after our inaugural Holiday Blues service, we hosted our monthly potluck after worship. Much of the complications come from queerphobia. Those complications would be there even if I were straight. The holidays challenge us to hold joy and grief in tension simultaneously.

About the Author Latest Posts. Make the Yuletide Gay: Directed by Rob Williams. For queer folks, these challenges are just the tip of the iceberg because our holidays look nothing like the cheery commercials we see on TV. It is often a time of deep loneliness, compounded by the picture-perfect straight family Christmases portrayed in the dozens upon dozens of holiday movies.

A gay student who is "out" at college but not to his family receives an unexpected visit from his boyfriend while at home during the holidays. Perhaps that double entendre is exactly what the world needs right now. 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.

Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for Make the Yuletide Gay on Rotten Tomatoes. 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. A bivocational pastor, writer and spiritual director based in Williamsburg, Virginia, she currently works as a Spiritual Director at Reclamation Theology.

May your Christmas be gay, and may it bring you joy. Kelly Keaton and Derek Long star as Anya and Sven, Gunn's parents, while. Frankly, my queer Christmases have been the best of my life. As members talked and held each other after the Holiday Blues service, I was struck by the paradoxical nature of the conversations.

But then something magical happened. Others were grieving the loss of relationships, career transitions, estrangement from family, and things shared only between themselves and God. As I approached the altar, my heart was heavy with relational grief—old wounds, to be sure, but still painful all the same.

Make The Yuletide Gay - Official Trailer | Queer Film Reviews Queer Film Reviews subscribers Subscribed. Some had lost a loved one earlier this year and were navigating the holidays without that special person for the first time. 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.

In the queer community, we really do make the Yuletide gay. I lit my candles with all that complexity in mind. Make the Yuletide Gay is a American Christmas romantic comedy film written and directed by Rob Williams about a gay college student who is out at school, but is afraid to reveal his sexual orientation to his parents.

I can only imagine what was passing through the minds of others as they approached the altar. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!. Some folks indicated that they came because they felt lonely, yet here they were, offering tissues so neighbors could wipe away tears, holding one another in loving embraces and sharing stories about who or what they lit candles for.

The reality is, though, that the holidays would be complicated enough even without the challenges brought by homophobia. With Keith Jordan, Wyatt Fenner, Steve Callahan, Adamo Ruggiero. We get the challenges that straight families have, along with challenges borne purely out of queerphobia.

We laugh, play games, eat good food and gather on days other than December 25th. Kids laughed at silly jokes as we all ate, drank and made merry, surrounded by Christmas decorations. At one table, queer young adults celebrated the birthday of one of their own.

That magic lasted beyond the service. [1] It stars Keith Jordan as Gunn, and Adamo Ruggiero as Gunn's boyfriend and roommate, Nathan.