SBG 138: The Knight Before Christmas with Catherine McCafferty

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Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that thinks Vanessa Hudgens just may be the best actress of our time. 

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Catherine McCafferty (@catherine_mccaff), host of the viral Patreon digital series Pretty Gay, to talk about why Netflix’s 2019 Christmas romcom The Knight Before Christmas Should’ve Been Gay. 

If you know us, you know how much we unironically love The Princess Switch trilogy. This movie has a similarly unhinged plot and more zany “Christmas magic” shenanigans than you can shake a candy cane at (although sadly, only one Vanessa Hudgens). 

What The Knight Before Christmas lacks in Vanessa Hudgens clones it makes up for in the introduction of Sir Cole, a golden retriever girlfriend from the 1300s that Brooke (Vanessa Hudgens) hits with her car and brings home with her. For our gay retelling we can’t help but see Sir Cole’s quest to become a ‘true knight’, something he apparently could not accomplish in his own time period, as a trans allegory. 

In addition to the clear trans allegory, the entire story takes place over only 7 days! Within what is essentially one week-long date, Sir Cole has thoroughly convinced Brooke, her hot sister Madison, and the whole town that he is telling the truth with no physical proof. Nothing about the other characters’ reactions to Sir Cole makes a lick of sense if this is a straight romcom. What woman is going to give an apparently mentally unstable man she has just met a key to her house? That’s not a romcom, that’s a horror movie. But when we put on our gay glasses and see Cole as the trans character he was meant to be, the result is a lesbian u-haul tale as old as time.

We know one thing for sure, The Knight Before Christmas Should’ve Been Gay.

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