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Santa is gay; get over it
(CNN) -- Who is Santa -- like, really?
That's the question at the heart of a new documentary, "I Am Santa Claus," which follows the lives of five Santa impersonators beyond the Christmas season.
In the literal sense, the answer the film provides is this: Santa is everyone who can supply the requisite beard and some Christmas cheer.
The Saint Nick stand-ins the filmmakers follow are poor and rich and drunk and fat and kind and gross and sad and sweet. One smells like cookies (it's cologne). One lives in a trailer park in central Michigan. One is a former pro wrestler who used to wear a leather mask and go by the name Mankind as he fake-pummeled Spandex-wearing men on national television.
Oh yeah, and one of them is gay.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/03/opinion/sutter-gay-santa-claus/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
That's the question at the heart of a new documentary, "I Am Santa Claus," which follows the lives of five Santa impersonators beyond the Christmas season.
In the literal sense, the answer the film provides is this: Santa is everyone who can supply the requisite beard and some Christmas cheer.
The Saint Nick stand-ins the filmmakers follow are poor and rich and drunk and fat and kind and gross and sad and sweet. One smells like cookies (it's cologne). One lives in a trailer park in central Michigan. One is a former pro wrestler who used to wear a leather mask and go by the name Mankind as he fake-pummeled Spandex-wearing men on national television.
Oh yeah, and one of them is gay.
I gotta find this docmentary