Those two words should have filled Theo with joy; they should have decked his halls and filled his head with visions of muscular, leotard-clad sugar plum fairies from an all-male touring company of The Nutcracker like they had since he was a little boy, but this year all they did was make him feel glum. No matter how hard he tried, he just couldn’t muster up any Christmas spirit; it simply wasn’t the holiday he had wished for. Up until a few months ago he had been planning on doing something radical this year, something he had never done before, something he never thought he’d be brave enough to do: He had decided not to spend Christmas with his family. Instead, he was going to spend it at home with Neil and a small circle of friends. This year was going to be the year of the all-gay Christmas. But Neil had other plans. Neil was Theo’s partner, and it was a partnership Theo was convinced would last until death do they parted. But Theo, like so many homos who just want to be happy, ignored his unhappy reality and the oh-so-many clues that Neil dropped along the way during their tenure together, to convince himself that their relationship would last forever.
What do You think about Remembering Christmas (2011)?
