Minorities Report
Hanukkah is just around the corner. Living in a predominantly Christian country, I’ll admit that the Jewish holidays have a tendency to sneak up on me. Sure they move around a bit, but so does Easter and I still manage to keep a handle on when that’s coming up.
Now this is going to go in the completely wrong direction, but I was talking to God about Hanukkah in particular, Jewish holidays in the less specific, and Jewish culture in general and he used the subject to teach me something about queer culture. One of the things that I’ve never quite been able to wrap my head around is the straight friends and acquaintances that I have that show a fair amount of interest in gay entertainment. This includes people that I’m about as sure as I can be that they aren’t just peering out from the depths of their closet, but who seem to have a more than passing enjoyment of movies and music and such that I’m into for their queer content.
God pointed out that I enjoy the Hanukkah songs that have accrued in my holiday collection. He pointed out what fun I have listening to Allan Sherman’s Jewish parody of My Fair Lady, and, as trite as it sounds, how I’ve enjoyed movies like Yentl and The Fiddler on the Roof.
So yeah, I get it now, I get why straight people watch queer entertainment. I suppose I should have gotten it just from seeing how I enjoy looking at alien cultures in science fiction.
But just for the record, Schindler’s List is still an overly pretentious pile of dung.
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