Don Your Gay Apparel This Christmas

Christmas, it seems, is the best time to be gay because there are many Festive songs which tell us so but as they are mostly older songs, it means in the mood of happiness or lightheartedness and not the sort which gets the nutty religious right wingers frothing at the mouth but it doesn't mean that to our 2024 ears it doesn't elicit a smile or a childish giggle
In Twistin the Night Away Sam Cooke described New York as where 'the people are so gay' and in the Great Pretender the Platter's describe themselves as 'gay as a clown' and Gilbert O Sullivan remembers a time when he was 'Cheerful, Bright and Gay' in his song Alone Again (Naturally).
West Side Story has a song where the singers tells all that they feel 'pretty and witty and gay' and the theme tune from The Flintstones has Fred and Barney 'having a gay old time', yabba dabba doo indeed
but it is Christmas songs where there is an abandonment of  gayness.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas tells you to 'Let the yuletide be gay, From now on our troubles will be miles away' while Deck The Halls thinks we should don our gay apparel Fa la la la la la, la la la and in that Andy Williams classic it may be the Wonderful Time Of The Year but it is also the hap-happiest season of all with those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings.
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (and ladies).