Making the Yuletide Extremely Gay feat. Aubrey Gordon

Oh, I Like That

We are once again celebrating holiday season, this time by talking all about queer Christmas movies with our special guest Aubrey Gordon, writer and co-host of the wonderful podcast Maintenance Phase.

We discussed a few specific movies: Under the Christmas Tree, Christmas at the Ranch, Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night, and the horny commercial for Norway’s postal service, When Harry Met Santa. In addition to discussing these specific movies, we also talked about more broadly what it means to portray queer intimacy, how queer cinema has evolved over the years, the absolutely delightful weirdness of Hallmark movies, and—and we can’t stress this enough—a lot more.

This episode was produced by Rachel and Sally and edited by Lucas Nguyen. Our logo was designed by Amber Seger (@rocketorca). Our theme music is by Tiny Music. MJ Brodie transcribed this episode. Follow us on Twitter @OhILikeThatPod.

Things we talked about

• Under the Christmas Tree
• Christmas at the Ranch
• Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night
• When Harry Met Santa
• Single All the Way
• How Hallmark takes over your TV every Christmas by Emily VanDerWerff for Vox
• The perfect storm that created Hallmark’s current ratings boom by Gwen Ihnat for the AV Club
• What it's really like to write made-for-TV Hallmark Christmas movies by Ruth Kinane for EW.com
• Hot tub boat tour
• Bonus video: Drag Queens Trixie Mattel & Katya React to Single All The Way
• Transanta: Deliver gifts to trans youth in need, safely and anonymously
• Taskmaster