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Merry  Christmas, her 1994 holiday album, yielded the seasonal staple “All I  Want For Christmas Is You.” Merry Christmas II You, Carey’s successful  new yuletide sequel, contains first single “Oh Santa!” which is perched  atop Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart like a perfect angel. On  December 13, the 40-year-old Grammy-winner stars in Mariah Carey: Merry  Christmas to You, a music special that features an appearance by Mimi’s  mother, former opera diva Patricia Carey. On December 17 she’ll be seen  in TNT’s Christmas in Washington special, and she’ll also join the  festivities for ABC’s broadcast of the Disney Parks Christmas Day  Parade. Now Carey, who’s expecting her first child with husband Nick  Cannon, regifts the love of her loyal gay fans — and stuffs our  stocking with the truth about her night with Lindsay Lohan.The  Advocate: No one does contemporary Christmas pop like you, Mariah. Do  you really love the holidays, or are you just faking it?Mariah Carey: You can’t really fake that. I don’t think people who don’t love  Christmas could translate that into a great Christmas song. People ask  me, “How do you make these songs feel like they’re already classics?”  The point is that I do love the holidays so much, and I love writing  songs and making records, so it seems like a natural fusion for me. I  did the first Christmas album so long ago, and then every year I’d  listen to it and pick it apart. So I needed to make a new Christmas  album for myself as well as for the fans. I wanted an album that I could  listen to during the holidays.I’ve read reports that your  holiday repertoire might be made into a Broadway musical about your life  as early as next year. What’s the real story?It definitely  wouldn’t be about my life; start that rumor and they’ll never lose it,  so make sure people know it’s not about my life. Right now we’re working  on finding a script. We’ve been in discussions with HBO for over three  years now. Everybody’s been very supportive of the project, but nobody  wants to accept a script that’s not amazing. Anybody out there reading  this who’s a writer or writer-in-training, we’re definitely accepting  different ideas right now. Because it’s so important to me, I don’t want  to make a mistake and have the script not be as good as the music. I  want the script to be better than the music.You’d rather debut your musical on TV than on Broadway?A  long time ago, the first idea I had was for it to be on Broadway and  hopefully become a perennial. Then we spoke with HBO and got into  discussions about making a movie musical. So it wouldn’t be a TV movie,  because it’s not TV, it’s HBO.Marc Shaiman, who worked as a writer-producer on Merry Christmas II You, would certainly be an asset on that musical project.I  love Marc Shaiman. He’s amazing, and I’d love to work with him again.  Randy Jackson introduced me to him. When we sat down to write at the  house in L.A., it was an amazing experience. After that, I was like, “He  has to do the orchestrations for the entire album, because nobody else  is coming close to what he’s doing, even in his demos.” And he’s  hilarious. Being with him in person is almost as good as his e-mails.Last  year you made magic with filmmaker Lee Daniels in Precious, and now  you’ve created another holiday miracle with Marc Shaiman. Not to detract  from their talent, but is there something special about gay men that  makes them a perfect creative match for you?I mean, how could I  say that there’s not? I can’t generalize too much because straight  people I work with will be like, “Well, what does that say about me?”  But it is true that there’s a certain chemistry there. Yes, their  talents are gigantic, but they’re also open-minded, and it’s all about  the shared references. I really clicked with Marc when we wrote our  first song together, “Christmas Time Is in the Air Again,” because our  references were so similar. His are way deeper than mine in terms of  standards and older Broadway stuff, but he was surprised that I knew old  standards that most people don’t know, because my mom would sing them  when I was really little. And Lee’s another one that you just can’t help  but love. He’s got his own unique personality, and we share so many of  the same references as well. I can’t even think of all the crazy things  we quote and laugh about.Whether it’s those surprised  concertgoers on Oprah last year or the “Party in the FIP” boys who just  made a YouTube video for “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” your gay  fans aren’t shy about expressing their love. When did you first feel  that support from the gay audience?I’ve never really categorized it  like that. But I’ve always been able to connect with different kinds of  people, because whoever connects with me realizes that I do truly  appreciate and care about them. And … wait, what was I saying? You  touched on something I wanted to discuss … Sorry, when you’re pregnant  you don’t remember things from one second ago.Your connection with gay fans.Yeah,  maybe part of the connection is that I do write songs from an outsider  perspective. A lot of my die-hard gay fans don’t just know my singles,  but they also know all the album cuts. I have songs about feeling  different and alienated, because I grew up with my own issues, being  biracial and not having money. Some of those lyrics can apply to anybody  who feels different. My die-hard gay fans listen to songs like  “Outside” and “Close My Eyes,” songs that most people wouldn’t know, and  these songs have become anthemic for them for their own personal  reasons.Do you have any words of encouragement for the young victims of antigay bullying?It’s  horrible that it’s almost 2011 and this is still going on, but I don’t  want to get on my podium and say, “Just keep believing!” — I know  that’s clich\u00e9, and it would be typical of me to say something like that.  It’s almost impossible to say anything, really, except you must be  aware that dealing with that in high school is a passing place. You have  to stay strong, rely on your true friends, and try to get through it,  as opposed to drowning in it. Look at how many people suffered during  high school and came out of it a better, stronger adult. That’s the  thing to focus on.You also returned the support from gay fans  last year when you invited a young gay couple onstage at a Las Vegas  concert to help facilitate their marriage proposal.If two people  want to get married, it’s their prerogative — we hope. Everybody  should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of  happiness. Ever since I was a little girl, my mother was very  open-minded and had many different types of friends, so being gay never  seemed wrong or strange to me. Her best friends were a gay couple, Ernie  and Mort, and they kind of co-raised me. They were the nicest guys  ever, and they would watch my little shows when I’d sing. Today, I guess  they’d be called my guncles. Sometimes they’d put us up when we didn’t  have a place to go. I couldn’t wait to go stay at their house because it  was so beautifully done.Are they still in your life?One of them passed away. They weren’t together at the very end, but they were together for a long, long time.Back  to your gay fans, Marc Jacobs’s ex-boyfriend Jason Preston got a big  tattoo of your name on his stomach a few years ago. Isn’t that a bit  much?I’ve seen it. How can I say it’s a bit much? No, it’s  amazing. I mean, it is very surprising when you see something like that,  but he’s a fun guy, so I thought it was adorable.How might you and Nick handle it if your child turned out to be gay?I guess we’d handle it as best we could in terms of being supportive.You strike me as one of those people who might secretly hope for a gay son.[Laughs] I just hope for whoever’s going to be happy and that I can be a great mother to.What if you have a little lesbian who won’t wear your tight hand-me-down dresses and butterfly jewelry?No  comment. [Laughs] No, the thing is that you can’t try to make somebody  something they’re not. Everybody’s like, “Oh, if she has a girl,  everything’s going to be pink, blah, blah, blah.” But I don’t think you  should go totally overboard on that. You should wait and see what the  child wants.What do you think about today’s female artists  like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Ke$ha, and Christina Aguilera,  who flirt with bisexuality in their lyrics, videos, and in the press?  Many view it as a disingenuous marketing strategy.Maybe it’s  more a reflection of society becoming more accepting. Some of those  different artists might really be expressing themselves, but yes, some  might just be looking for a little more attention. You never know.Bisexual rumors have surrounded you for years.If  it makes somebody happy to say that, then whatever, but that’s not the  reality. I don’t have a discriminatory policy of who I’m friends with,  so yes, I’m friends with women who are gay — gay, straight, it doesn’t  matter to me. So I don’t get upset when I hear that, because it is what  it is. I guess I could lie about it to seem more exciting.Is Nick comfortable around your gay friends?He’s  fine. Honestly, he does his own thing and doesn’t really care what  anybody else is doing. He’s just living his life and being happy.Is it true that Lindsay Lohan has tried to seduce you?No,  but I have hung out with her at a club. She was with Sean Lennon, and  they came over. I remember he was playing my Hello Kitty guitar, and we  were all just singing, laughing, and making up songs. It really couldn’t  have been more innocent.Some reviews have referred to Burlesque as the new Glitter. Have you seen it?I  haven’t seen it, and I don’t feel like sitting in a movie theater right  now. I can barely lie in bed and be comfortable. First I’m going to go  see Elf, the Broadway musical, because I’m very focused on my Christmas  music moment. But maybe I’ll see it when it comes out on DVD. "},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Mariah Carey Supports Marriage Equality","item":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/mariah-carey-supports-marriage-equality\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]