The winter holiday season can be rough, especially for LGBTQ+ folks. Many of us associate the holiday season with visiting homophobic relatives, draining our bank accounts, loneliness, delayed flights, being away from partners, being away from family members who don’t want to see us and other Very Unsexy Things. So I’ve been wondering: is there anything hot about the holidays? And if not, is there anything we can or should do to make the holidays feel a little…sexier? Here’s what some Autostraddle writers and editors have to say:
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Yes, I love Christine Baranski, too. If she were to curl her lip directly at me? Mmmmm!
And thank you for the holirotica. Always a pleasure.
Celebrating a queer Jew’s birthday sounds like a great idea, now to find a local queer Jew whose birthday is this time of year. I will say absinthe is a sexy holiday drink. It’s green(usually), strong, sexy with hints of mystery to it, & best of all it’s the upper of alcohols in my experience. Pairs well with friends.
hahaha tysm for humoring me and celebrating my birthday <3 sending good vibes that you find a local queer Jew who is also celebrating their birth this month!!
I clicked for Christine Baranksi
I love the range here. I’m not sure I think of the holidays as sexy but I do think of them as sensual and loving, which can be sexy. Baking cookies, drinking hot cider, making cards, looking at the lights.
There’s something really beautiful to me about welcoming light into the darkness and sharing it with your community. I love rituals. As a spiritual but not very religious Christian, my favorite part of the Christmas Eve service at my church pre-Covid (besides the enthusiastic hugging during the Passing of the Peace and the cookies after the service) is the communal lighting of the candles in the dark – everyone has a candle and lights theirs from their neighbor’s.
My other ritual that maybe is sexy and is definitely sensual is attending an annual pre-dawn solstice drum concert. Every year I go, I feel so moved by the energy and power of the music and the all of us sitting together, watching the room get lighter and feeling the rhythm move through us.