The Hallmark Channel is known for s chey but heartwarmg Christmas movi. This year, the channel cid to diversify s sts by featurg s first openly gay lead uple.
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- JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
- THE TTH BEHD HALLMARK’S LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN: HOW MANY ACTORS ARE GAY?
- HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
Canadian actor Jake Foy is makg wav for playg the openly gay wboy Tuff McMurray on Hallmark's newt wtern seri, Ri. Dubbed by The Advote's sister publitn Out as the "gay kg of Christmas, " Jonathan Bent has starred some of the Hallmark Channel's most beloved holiday films.
THE TTH BEHD HALLMARK’S LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN: HOW MANY ACTORS ARE GAY?
Alberta native Brad Harr is an out actor known pecially for The Christmas Hoe seri, which he and Jonathan Bent played the first married gay uple Hallmark history. The multalented (and proudly out) Ali Liebert has both acted and directed projects for Hallmark, and she helmed the groundbreakg gay Christmas movie The Holiday Ster.
The Hallmark Channel is gettg to the gay Christmas bs.As a part of s Countdown to Christmas event, Hallmark Channel has announced s first Christmas movie that foc on a gay romance.The Holiday Ster will be released on December 11 on The Hallmark Channel and will star Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent, Gee Krissa, and Chelsea Hobbs.None — Becky VanValkenburg (@Becky VanValkenburg). He mak the trip wh his hband Jake, played by Brad Harr, and the pair wa to hear about the possible adoptn of their first child.It's only September, but wh Hallmark announcg s slate of holiday movi, and other platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and Lifetime havg also announced holiday movi and specials, so far, The Holiday Ster is the only one to foc on gay characters.Startg 2020, Christmas was for the gays.
HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
In 2020 queer holiday movi like Dashg December, The Christmas Setup (Lifetime's first holiday film to foc on an LGBTQ+ romance), The Christmas Hoe, Happit Season, and The New York Christmas Weddg all me out.The followg year saw LGBTQ+ Christmas movi cludg A Jenks Fay Christmas, Christmas on the Farm, Christmas at the Ranch, Sgle All the Way, The Christmas Hoe 2: Deck Those Halls, and Unr the Christmas Tree me out.Hopefully, this year will see more LGBTQ+ holiday films, they jt haven't been announced yet.RELATED | 23 Christmas Songs by LGBTQ+ Artists to Make the Yuleti Gay. In the movie, which buts Sunday, Bent plays Sam, a gay guy whose personal life suffers at the st of his profsnal life — work over marriage.
'" Add to the formula the actor's love of the '80s classic Uncle Buck starrg John Candy, pl his sire to see a movie that was "really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022. " And that turned to me and my love for Uncle Buck, the movie wh John Candy that I grew up on, and I kd of put those ias together and I said, "What if Uncle Buck was gay?
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