Christmas classic or yuletide dud? Unwrapping 2000’s drag melodrama ‘Holiday Heart’
Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we’re celebrating the season by revisiting 2000’s yuletide drag melodrama Holiday Heart.The holiday season tends to be filled with melancholy.
Although frequently thought of as a time to reconnect with loved ones, travel back to family members, and look back at what the year has brought us, it can also be a time of heightened loneliness, isolation, and anxiety for many.
But, precisely because of that, it’s the perfect season to look after each other, something our community is particularly good at doing.
This week, we’ll revisit a film from the beginning of the century that—despite taking some wild tonal swings—has an unmistakable sense of compassion and community at its titular heart.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.The 2000 television movie Holiday Heart follows a Black gay man in Chicago (Ving Rhames) who often performs in drag as his alter ego “Holiday Heart”.
