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The trend of wearing festively decorated Christmas sweaters to parties is all about fun, and this ornament is intended to play into that,” the statement said. In 1862 the Scottish poet Thomas Oliphant took the tune of the Welsh Nos Galan, a New Year’s song that had nothing to do with Christmas, boughs of holly, or any kind of clothing, gay or otherwise, and put his own words to it, creating what would then become one of the most popular Christmas carols. Assistant superintendent Jane Mohr told a local news station, "The teacher made a poor decision and it should have never happened.

Nineteenth-century children might snicker thinking gay referred to libertines or prostitutes, but they were still allowed to sing about “gay apparel. gay’ still means happy -- joyful -- I refuse to let the word [be] hijacked by the same-sex relationship community,” one Facebook commenter wrote on the company’s wall Thursday. Tony Woodcock From the New Edwardians and muscle boys to Radical Drag and Genderfuck, gay mens dress has had a profound impact on fashion. After controversy over the sanitized carol swirled in the media and on the internet, Hallmark amended its response: “We never intend to offend or make political statements with our products and in hindsight, we realize we shouldn't have changed the lyrics on the ornament. Breen breaks his promise to Sipowicz by checking up on his son and decides to go back to him, which turns out to be fatal when Br.If this happens, please contact me as soon as possible with a photo of the damaged item for an exchange or refund.

Setting your Language Level helps other users provide you with answers that aren't too complex or too simple. It describes, in great detail, events and trends globally that led to changes not only in the fashion industry, but changes in people's attitudes and lives as well. P. McCaskey is sometimes credited with the lyrics of Deck the Halls but he only edited the Franklin Square Song Collection in which the lyrics were first published.

When you sing “Deck the halls with boughs of holly,” we are referring to decorating the walls with branches of holly – with thorny leaves and bright red berries.

When Oliphant wrote “don we now our gay apparel” he surely meant something like ‘brightly colored, festive’ clothing. Surely if the company had created the phrase from scratch rather than by bowdlerizing a traditional song, the grammatical purists would have rushed in to object to this use of fun as an adjective.But the fact that gay has been embraced in recent years both by the gay community and by English speakers in general as a positive, non-taboo synonym for homosexual makes it even more likely for the word’s other primary sense, ‘bright, festive,’ to fall into disuse. Choose your favorite Don We Now Our Gay-inspired shirt style: v-neck or crew neckline; short, baseball or long sleeve; slim or relaxed fit; light, mid, or heavy fabric weight. From the New Edwardians and muscle boys to Radical Drag and Genderfuck, Don We Now Our Gay Apparel has it all. If you're going to change everything kids giggle at, you might want to start renaming Lake Titicaca and baseball player Albert Pujols while you're at it.

One of Hallmark’s ornaments for the holiday season is snowballing into some controversy following the replacement of the word “gay” while quoting “Deck the Halls.

In the eighteenth century the tune spread widely, with Mozart allegedly using it in his 18th violin sonata (1778) [15] and later Haydn arranged it in under the Welsh title, "Nos galan" ( Hob.

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