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Special
This Month..FOUR Christmas Shows!! Click to Listen1, 2, 3, or
4 Above.
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Okay, I got a little carried away...here are 65 different artists, and 78 songs, and an interview with Cris Williamson, about her new holiday CD, and six other artists dropped in with comments on their songs...it all totals just under five hours! You'll find artist links with their names on the playlists, and check out the pages of pics for each show, lots of show and tell...:)
Playlist - Part 4 - 80:52 Michael
Feinstein - We Need a Little Christmas (1993) |
Playlist - Part 1 - airdate 12/22/08, 58:00 Melissa
Etheridge - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)(2008) Playlist - Part 2 - 78:53 RuPaul
- Funky Christmas (Christmas at My House) (1997) Playlist - Part 3 - 76:33 Venus
Envy - Silent Dyke (1995)
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Well,
with 65 different artists on these four very queer shows, |
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I have bonus holiday photography and artwork at the bottom of each page...
No,
I've no idea who these guys are...found this series on the net, circa
early 60's,
Above
one and two below, vintage pics grabbed from eBay ads. The one below,
Above,
a sad one, of Carl Betts. The eBay seller has a wonderful knack of
"This is a wonderful old photo from one of my late gay uncle's photo albums. This is a picture of a buddy of his named Carl Betts opening Christmas presents at his mother's house in the early 1950's. Carl had been in the Navy, had gotten drunk, and had been caught with another sailor aboard ship. The naked men were tossed in the brig and eventually out of the Navy. A few days before Christmas, Carl went home alone to his mother's house in Pasadena, California. He couldn't tell her that he had been dishonorably discharged so he said he had been given extra time off for the holidays. This is the last photo ever taken of Carl. His mother snapped the picture as Carl sat quietly opening a few gifts on Christmas morning. Carl started drinking and in a few hours called my uncle and said he needed talk to him. Carl had told uncle some years before that he was gay but that he didn’t want to be like that. He wanted to marry, have kids and be straight like everyone else. Carl had a series of girlfriends but not a lasting relationship with any of them. He drank too much and when he did, he always wound up in a public restroom or an alley way, or even in a parked car with men like himself; drunk, naked and satisfying a lust he couldn’t control. Carl never made it to uncle’s house that night. His body was found below the Colorado Street Bridge, his car engine still running on the bridge above. It wasn’t known if he jumped or if he got out of the car and, in his drunken stupor, fell over the edge. Uncle always thought he had committed suicide over not being able to face his gay nature. Carl’s mother believed her son just lost his balance and toppled over the railing. She never knew her son was gay."
The wonderful
drawing above is used with permission of and is copyrighted by the
artist, Michael Breyette, who reserves all rights. Please visit his
site and check out his fantastic gallery, at www.studio1088.com.
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Haven't
had enough queer xmas music yet? December
2000 |
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Couldn't resist plugging my favorite GLBT organization. |
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