‘White Christmas’ | A Gay Extravaganza

Merry Christmas Eve, Gents! |Irving Berlin and Bob Fosse collaborate with Bing Crosby and this is what you get–a magical, musical gay spectacular, “White Christmas.” Growing up, this scene in Irving Berlin’s jukebox musical “White Christmas” is perhaps my first memory of two men in what I like to call proto-drag. It made me super uncomfortable sitting in the living room with my parents watching. “Did they think I was gay?” Well, duh. Thank you Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye for giving me my first TV Drag Christmas.

On all accounts, “White Christmas” is pretty gay–in the best sense of the word. And it’s not gay like Tom Ford’s “A Single Man” is gay, but in a way that “The Sound of Music” is gay.

Of course, my absolute favorite dance number is “Mandy” — choreographed (though uncredited) by Bob Fosse. Just look at those legs on Vera-Ellen as she literally flies across the stage…. then down the stairs… then sideways…. It’s priceless: a true classic. Isn’t it great to be gay?

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