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Contents:

• MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
• HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• WELL JGLE OUR BELLS, NETFLIX IS MAKG A GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE WH JENNIFER COOLIDGE
• NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM-COM IS THE #3 MOVIE RIGHT NOW
• 10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• SEE FIRST-LOOK PHOTOS OF NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE SGLE ALL THE WAY
• A BIG GAY GUI TO THIS YEAR’S QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI
• SGLE ALL THE WAY REVIEW – NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM
• ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR GAY CHRISTMAS MOVI
• LIFETIME PLANS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE CENTERED ON A GAY ROMANCE

MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

The new, LGBTQ+ holiday films and seri are gog to make the yuleti hella gay this holiday season! Drama and secrets get exposed this brand new, queer-clive fay saga that featur a gay uple played by Broadway actor/photographer Anthony Chatmon II and out mol Derek Chadwick! Nonbary actor Hugh Sheridan is takg on their first gay role, playg the happily married David alongsi hubby (played by Nicholas Brown) the Asie Christmas rom- Christmas on the Farm!

HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE

Directed by Tony wner Michael Mayer and starrg a stacked st that clus Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Le MacFarlane, Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Robertson, and edy screen legends Jennifer Coolidge and Kathy Najimy, Sgle All the Way is Netflix's highly-anticipated, first gay holiday film and tells the story of a gay man named Peter who is "sperate to avoid his fay's judgment about his perpetual sgle stat, " acrdg to the film's official (and relatable AF) scriptn. Emmy-wng TV in and Drag Race legend RuPl is gettg on all of the gay cheer this year by releasg her very own special holiday special for VH1, aptly entled The Bch Who Stole Christmas! Tellg the story of the Diaz fay, the seri featur a gay uple, as well as one of the first transgenr love stori to ever be featured a holiday rom-!

Part of the Hallmark Channel's imprsive and packed slate of 41 brand-new Christmas movi beg released this holiday season, the upg sequel to last year's gay-clive The Christmas Hoe, tentatively entled Deck Those Halls, is rng the origal st for another round of queer holiday cheer, cludg Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent and Brad Harr, the two actors who played the loveable hband-hband duo the first movie.

The tradn ntu 2021, wh films starrg RuPl, Michael Urie, Jonathan Ben and more — pl appearanc by gay favor like Jennifer your holiday season bge-watchg ssns acrdgly wh the upg movi and specials. 2, NetflixTony-wng director Michael Mayer (“Sprg Awakeng”) helms Netflix’s first gay holiday film, which se perpetually sgle Peter (Michael Urie) beggg his bt iend, Nick (Philemon Chambers), to e home wh him and pretend to be his boyiend to put an end to his fay’s nstant meddlg. But the se is put to the tt when his mother (another gay fave, Kathy Najimy) sets him up wh her hunky traer (“Brothers and Sisters” actor Le Macfarlane) to “Sgle All the Way” for stg three out actors as gay characters — and for stg Jennifer Coolidge, perd.

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

3, NetflixFormer nttants return to the tents for a pair of holiday-themed episos: In “The Great Christmas Bakg Show, ” out ic Tom Allen subs for Noel Fieldg to -host wh gay prenter Matt Lus as season ne’s Jon Jenks and Kim-Joy Hewlett and season 11’s Herme and Rowan Williams whip up wondro Yuleti treats. “The showstopper challenge, they’ve got to make a ftive feast illn ke, ” judge Pl Hollywood teased, acrdg to “The Great New Year’s Bakg Show, ” 's season five wner Nancy Birtwhistle up agast season ne champn Rahul Mandal and two nttants om season 19: Gay nerd Henry Bird and wchy Helena Garcia.

Baneatta’s gay son, Kenny (Anthony Chatmon II), brgs his boyiend, Logan (Derek Chadwick), home for the holidays but is given an icy receptn. 18, Hallmark ChannelLast year, after sparkg outrage by pullg a jewelry ad featurg lbian bris, Hallmark ma amends by featurg the first gay uple one of s many, many holiday movi: "The Christmas Hoe" sred more than 13 ln viewgs over the 2020 holiday season, so a sequel was a no-braer. In the origal, Bill and Phylis Mchell (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) ved their adult sons home for the holidays, then drop a bomb that they’re sellg the fay time around, gay son Brandon (Jonathan Ben) and his hband, Jake (Brad Harr), pete wh Brandon’s straight brother, Mike (Robert Buckley), to see who n create the most ftively rated Christmas hoe.

19, LifetimeLast year, Lifetime buted s first gaycentric holiday flick, "The Christmas Setup, " and this season, 's brgg a lbian romance to the small this holiday tale om "The Christmas Setup" screenwrer Michael J. We were posively spoiled wh big gay rich.

WELL JGLE OUR BELLS, NETFLIX IS MAKG A GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE WH JENNIFER COOLIDGE

And after all that very merry reprentatn last year, we are eager to don our gay apparel and watch what 2021’s holiday season got for . Why You Can’t Miss It: This movie puts a gay twist on the classic fake-relatnship-for-the-holidays plot, adds a love triangle angle, and brgs Kathy Najimy and Jennifer Coolidge together? This movie was created a North Pole lab specifilly for all of the holiday gays.

That is gay nonsense and we are here for . Why You Can’t Miss It: No, this isn’t a queer rom, but havg Hoewiv the tle immediately mak the movie gay. Why You Can’t Miss It: Remember The Christmas Hoe, one of last year’s big gay movi?

Brad Harr and Jonathan Bent played Hallmark Channel's first gay married uple the 2020 holiday movie The Christmas Hoe. "It's so tertg: I went om hidg who I was to the world and kissg Ldsay Lohan Mean Girls to starrg as part of the first gay uple a Christmas movie for the biggt Christmas work the world, " says the actor, who me out publicly 2017.

NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM-COM IS THE #3 MOVIE RIGHT NOW

The actor has sce e out as gay, and marvels at how tim have changed. 2, Netflix dropped, starrg Michael Urie and Philemon Chambers — the first out gay Black actor to headle a holiday movie — as Los Angel-based bt iends who disver that they may be somethg more durg a Christmas vis to Urie's small-town home. "And I thk what’s so great about this year is that the aren't stori about beg gay — they are stori about love, and that's somethg we n all intify wh.

10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

The fact that they’re gay isn’t the foc of the entire storyle. "I'm extremely proud that the problems the characters have [are] the same problems that a straight person might have, " Urie, who sred his breakthrough screen role as Vansa Williams's out gay assistant on Ugly Betty, tells Yahoo Entertament. "They are not alg wh g out wo; they are not alg wh feelgs of shame; and they are not alg wh homophobic fai.

"Philemon Chambers and Michael Urie star Netflix's first gay-themed holiday movie Sgle All the Way. (Photo: Philippe Bosse/Netflix)Chambers agre that ntemporary LGBTQ stori — holiday-related or otherwise — have evolved beyond the kds of g-out stori that played outsized rol movi like The Birdge and even Happit Season, where gay upl feel pelled to hi their inti om their loved on.

SEE FIRST-LOOK PHOTOS OF NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE SGLE ALL THE WAY

"If they thk gay people don't love Christmas, then they're livg unr some kd of heterosexual rock. If you don't like watchg gay people love Christmas, then you n go fd one of the lerally thoands of other straight Christmas movi. As we take over, Christmas movi will be herently gay, and the on about straight people will have to be scribed as straight Christmas movi!

A BIG GAY GUI TO THIS YEAR’S QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI

Early the ntemporary queer holiday non, 2005’s The Fay Stone, which stars gay in Sarah Jsi Parker as a (shocker) snobby New Yorker spendg the holidays at her boyiend’s fay home, beme a queer h for s B-plot gay uple wh ambns to adopt a baby.

That is, gay and lbian Christmas movi actually center queer people now — same-sex holiday revelers csh and fall love, break up, rega romance, and jt live the same celebratory December existence every heterosexual (or closeted) character has gotten for, well, ever. Hallmark’s first-ever gay Christmas romance is a sparkly, trope-y film about the virtu of settlg down and startg a fay a glzy world where homophobia don’t exist.

Nearby, handsome sgle-gay-father-aspiree Jason (Gee Krissa) studi an adoptn pamphlet his ftively rated mansn while his dotg mom nsol him via phone om her home across the street. A hyperfaiar, perhaps way-too-overdone heteronormative plot flipped to be gay? Netflix’s first te gay Christmas movie (2019’s Let It Snow has a cute queer-teen subplot) follows plant daddy Peter (Michael Urie) as he heads home to New Hampshire wh his bt iend and pretend boyiend, Nick (Philemon Chambers), to avoid his mom’s (Kathy Najimy) naggg about his perpetual sgle stat.

SGLE ALL THE WAY REVIEW – NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM

Lifetime’s first gay Christmas movie is a love story between (surprise! The Bt Queer Holiday Movi to Make the Yuleti Gay. Although Christmas is mp as fuck and Rudolph is a gay in, fact, holiday films don’t have the greatt reputatn when to queer storytellg.

‘TIS THE SEASON FOR GAY CHRISTMAS MOVI

In recent years, however, the yuleti has never been gayer thanks to historic rom-s such as Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup, Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe and Hulu’s Happit Season, which notably beme the first gay Christmas film released by a major stud. Hallmark’s first film to promently feature a gay uple, The Christmas Hoe, is back for a sequel wh Jonathan Bent and Brad Harr reprisg their rol as married uple Brandon and Jake.

Netflix will make history this year wh Sgle All The Way, their first ever Christmas film focg on a gay romance. My parents are played by Barry Bostwick and Kathy Najimy — a batn that scientists agree n only produce sons who are gay and love Christmas. Happit Season may be one of the first mastream LGBTQ+ Christmas movi, but ’s not the only Happit Season, there were a few LGBTQ+ films set around the holidays that featured gay or bisexual characters as the ma protagonist or one of the necsary supportg characters.

2020 pecially began to build upward momentum when many works and streamg servic opened up the world of Christmas movi to clu more diverse stori, pecially those volvg same-sex upl or gay characters. (Image cred: TLA Releasg)Make The Yuleti Gay (2009) Degrassi: The Next Generatn star Adamo Ruggiero stars alongsi Keh Jordan Make the Yuleti Gay. Olaf then giv Nathan a surprise by rmg him that his fay don’t know that he’s the Yuleti Gay is one of those edi wh a lot of wks and nods to s own jok.

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(Image cred: Cir 87 Films)The Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas/Red Lodge (2013) Origally this film was entled Red Lodge, but on Amazon Prime, ’s lled The Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas.