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Drag Queen Appears on White House Christmas Tree, Frighteningly Close to the Baby Jesus

By Queerty Staff December 23, 2009 at 9:12am · 13 comments

If you hire Barney’s top gay Simon Doonan to decorate the White House for Christmas, you’re bound to wind up with a very gay holiday season. And that includes drag queen ornaments.

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  • Law

    The comments under the YouTube post are very disturbing. People that ignorant scare me.

    December 23, 2009 at 10:12am
  • terrwill

    I am tempted to forgive Obama for all the disses we recieved
    so far just because seeing those balls on the tree casued
    about a million frightwing-nutbag lunatic’s heads to explode!!

    December 23, 2009 at 10:12am
  • AlanInSLCutah

    God this country is full of irrational, ignorant, and plain idiotic people.

    December 23, 2009 at 10:12am
  • Jon B

    That ornament was actually designed by a random highschool kid, not by Simon Doonan. The White House sent out ornaments to school kids across the country and had them decorate them and send them back. Some people weren’t happy about that either. The Daily Show did the best segment ever about it. Look it up.

    December 23, 2009 at 10:12am
  • JoeB

    unfortunately they don’t have the balls (pun intended) to stand behind the ornaments and say ‘hell yeah, Christmas is inclusive’ instead they say they are unaware of the specific balls

    December 23, 2009 at 11:12am
  • Jake

    Kind of makes you wonder which magazines the school children were given to cut and paste from. That said, I’m laughing my ass off! Mao and Hedda, together at last!

    December 23, 2009 at 12:12pm
  • FakeName

    Hedda says she made the ornament with her picture herself. She got the ornament through SAGE, a group for LGBT elderly.
    http://heddalettuce.com/?p=2250

    December 23, 2009 at 2:12pm
  • Mattrdesign

    Wait, people are upset over ANDY WARHOL’s print of Mao?!

    December 23, 2009 at 3:12pm
  • sal(the original)

    my goodness next they would be telling me the white house put jesus in a manger as to the truth ,jesus in a Republican only hospital maternity ward..liberal evilllllll…..yo fox news jesus hated types like you and never hung out with your types when he walked this earth

    December 23, 2009 at 8:12pm
  • YCKTR

    I’m upset about the Mao ornament too. Aren’t we done with the Warhol thing yet? He was socio-path and a hack. What’s more most of “his work” wasn’t even constructed by him. It’s a shame that pop art will always have his name attached to it.

    !

    December 23, 2009 at 10:12pm
  • FakeName

    “The Warhol thing”? On what precisely do you base your claim that Andy Warhol was a “sociopath”? You do realize that the word has a specific medical meaning, right?

    December 23, 2009 at 11:12pm
  • Keith Kimmel

    All this talk of balls is making me horny.

    December 26, 2009 at 5:12pm
  • LaReina

    I wonder if there was a LaReina one… O-Ba-Ma… O-Ba-Ma…

    October 21, 2010 at 11:10pm

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