Big Freedia, Santa Is a Gay Man | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 95^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight “Santa Is a Gay Man” performed by Big Freedia.

Prepare to beam with P-R-I-D-E 🏳️‍🌈! Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 celebrates, embraces, and spotlights songs by LGBTQ musicians or allies.  Here, we provide background and insight into musicians, analyze, plus go gaga over the decadent bops served up.  When songs dictate deeper and more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is fully articulated.  All styles of music are welcome, whether the songs are classics or brand-new. So, without further ado, in the 95^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight “Santa Is a Gay Man” performed by Big Freedia.

“Maybe Santa is a black fag.” 🫣 😳 😶… Backtracking, according to the gospel of Big Freedia, “Santa Is a Gay Man” 👀. Not the way it was scripted when I was a child, but Santa is an attractive older man.  I wonder, is he truly a man ho, ho, ho 😏? Moving on, Big Freedia doesn’t hold back on the fourth and final track from her 2016 EP, A Very Big Freedia Christmas.  Over the course of three verses, she gays it up, and we wouldn’t have it any other way!

In the first verse, Freedia asks Santa for a dream, aka, a man. “Make him the cutest boy I’ve ever seen,” she raps, and adds, “And tell him I’ll be happy to bend over.” Oh, snap! But honestly, she’s not wrong! Having been a good Big Freedia, she tells Mr. Ho, Ho, Ho, “I used protection, whenever I could / Now that I’m down on my knees / Mr. Santa don’t forget about me.” Moving on, in the second verse, she continues to build a man for Santa to bring, but admits, “These younger guys aren’t quite on my level.” She adds, “Now that I’m older, I don’t want a twink / I want a man, who’s older and wiser.” Can you guess who that ends up being, folks? “[Santa] Come down my chimney if you can / Mister Santa is a gay man.” By the third and final verse, Freedia has characterized her gay Santa. “I’d love to grab a hold of that belly / And make it jiggle like a bowl of KY jelly,” she asserts, and adds, “I want a Santa who’s big, black, and tall.” Santa would probably best be categorized as a bear, right?  And, reiterating the first excerpted lyric, “Maybe Santa is a black fag.” Big Freedia is something else, transforming “Mr. Sandman” by The Chordettes into a horny, queer, bounce, holiday joint. I still wonder, Freedia, where does Mrs. Claus come into the picture if, indeed, “Santa Is a Gay Man” 🤔?

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Big Freedia » A Very Big Freedia Christmazz » Queen Diva Music LLC » 2016

Big Freedia, Santa Is a Gay Man: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 95 (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Queen Diva Music LLC; Elias Souza, Mario Spencer, Mizuno K, from Pexels; AcatXIo, All_CC0_Public_domain, CatsWithGlasses, David, ernestflowerss, Kelly, M. Harris, Marek Studzinski, OpenClipart-Vectors, from Pixabay]

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