Ken Pyne,
“Punch” 2 December 1981
From the early days of what we would now call multiculturalism, this cartoon offers all the possible bleeding-heart heart liberal alternatives to a traditional Father Christmas. The joke is marrying all these different instances of positive discrimination to harmless Father Christmas, rather than attempting to show what a gay Santa or a CND Santa might look like.
From “Santas for All”
Illustrated by Gerry Gersten
“Playboy”, December 1966
Whereas this is nothing but festive offerings to satisfy various contemporary steretoypes. Amidst the surfers and black power protestors, here's Swish Kringle.
Similarly, you can look at Richard Ingrams camping it up as Santa in “Private Eye”, December 1963
“Playboy”, December 1967
Just asking each other for their Christmas presents, or something more?
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