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mopped the floor with Ron DeSantis, George Santos showed off his husband before getting expelled, and a hot streaker terrorized The Happiest Place On Earth.

LGBTQ+ Victory Fund Annise Parker on Friday said the protection of democracy is an LGBTQ rights issue.

Billie Eilish is opening up about her accidental coming-out!

and check it twice—let Queerty help you out with at least one merry-making must-have: A Christmastime playlist that’s gayer than the Elf On The Shelf himself!Every year, radio airwaves, streaming platforms, and shopping mall speakers are overrun with holiday songs, new and old, looking to get you in the festive spirit. And, frankly, a lot of it can feel as stale as that fruitcake sitting in the cupboard from last year.So, we went ahead and assembled a fresh new playlist for the 2024 holiday, a stocking stuffed with new music from LGBTQ+ artists—and a few of our favorite gay icons—as well as some longtime favorite that still make us want to jingle our bells after all these years, because classics are classics for a reason!Below, take a peek at some holiday highlights, and keep scrolling for our full playlist so you can really make the yuletide gay!Cher’s been making music for nearly 60 years, so consider it a Christmas miracle that she’s finally delivered a holiday album after all this time—her first release with original songs in a decade.

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we revisit Gay Purr-ee, an oft-forgotten animated musical featuring the voice of the original gay icon, Judy Garland.As we have discussed many times before in this column, queer content and representation on films in the early part of last century was often sparse, hidden, or coded. We’ve had to dig for hinted-at relationships and character backstories, read into the mannerisms of the villains and sidekicks, and find resonance in themes rather than in explicit stories.