Playlist:
(airdate 12/25/00)
Gay Liberation Quire - hark the herald fairies
shout (1981)
South Coast Chorale - coming out for christmas
("Christmastime," '94, clip only)
Amy Mills, Mary K. Butler, Valerie Clark &
Janey Hall-
an old-fashioned lesbian christmas ("Coming
Out, Coming Home," a Cathedral of Hope production, Dallas, '95)
Aria - shades of christmas ("Glad Tidings
We Bring!" '97)
Martin Swinger - christmas blues (from "Scrapbook,"
'98, and
also on "BearNaked," 2000)
Robb Williams - i don't remember christmas
("What More Can I Say," '98)
Gary Imhoff & Robert Patteri - our first christmas
(from the '93 soundtrack "All That He Was")
B.D. Wong - wishing you a drag queen christmas
(from the
CD "Cabaret Noel, A Broadway Cares Christmas,"
'93)
Jaston Williams - tuna christmas (from "Cabaret Noel,
Broadway Cares Christmas")
Bob Rivers Twisted Radio - walkin' round in
women's
underwear ("I Am Santa Claus," '93)
Pansy Division - homo christmas (from "Pile Up," '95, clip)
Special Feature: Joan Crawford Christmas Visit
(1950)
Venus Envy - i'll be a homo for christmas
("I'll Be A Homo For Christmas," '95)
Grant King - music
Sons & Lovers - if you get down for christmas
(both from "Richard Foltz, A Songwriter's Christmas,"
'95)
Go Go Boys - boys to the world
("Gay Apparel Christmas Songs," '96)
Choral Majority - it came upon a midnight clear
("Choral Majority's Greatest Hits," '82)
Erasure - silent night xmas greeting
Melissa Etheridge - santa claus is coming to town
("Being Sensitive, Private Demos 1986-1993")
Rufus Wainwright - what are you doing new year's
eve
(GAP TV commercial, '98)
RuPaul - rupaul the red nosed drag queen ("Ho Ho Ho," '97)
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Venus Envy:
Linda Schierman, Lisa Koch, Laura Love, Linda Severt (clockwise from
top)
Above,
Rufus Wainwright
Below, Andy Bell and Vince Clarke of Erasure
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Joan
with Christina and then
husband Phillip Terry, Xmas, 1950
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"A Songwriter's
Christmas" artists: (left to right, standing) Bob Stern, Elliot
Pilshaw, Janiece Thompson, Andy Monroe, Grant King, Dan Martin, Richard
Foltz, David Clement (seated, l to r) Joshua Koffman, John Whitley,
Melinda D, Zenobia, Steve Cohen, Tom McCormack, Laura Wetzler, Patrick
Arena. [Stern, Pilshaw, Koffman & Whitley comprised Sons &
Lovers, with member Ken Browne not Pictured; right, their 1994 cassette,
with Deian McBryde]
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While not related
to music, the magazine covers to the left are still of interest, as
they are of "One, The Homosexual Viewpoint" from the early
60's.
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