The 10 Bt Gay/LGBTQIA+ Christmas Movi of All Time

Contents:

• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• THE 10 BT GAY/LGBTQIA+ CHRISTMAS MOVI OF ALL TIME
• WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
• HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
• A SUPER GAY CHRISTMAS
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI
• A BIG GAY GUI TO THIS YEAR’S QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI

THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN

Christmas 2020 is the gayt Christmas ever. This holiday season has gifted dienc wh four—y, four—gay Christmas roms: Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe, Hulu’s Happit Season, Lifetime’s The Christmas Set-Up (December 12), and Paramount’s Dashg December (December 13).

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

There have been more mastream gay holiday roms released 2020 than every other year rerd pop culture history bed. Gays didn’t jt startg lovg Christmas this year.

“I thk when they said make the Yuleti gay, they meant , ” said Jonathan Bent, one half of the gay uple at the heart of Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe. By featurg a married gay uple ont and center (Brad Harr plays Bent’s onscreen spoe), the film is a major step forward for the work. '” The works—Hallmark, Lifetime, Paramount—fally donned their gay apparel, jtifyg s of passn for this historilly heteronormative holiday.

Bee, honey, the gays have always been here for Christmas—even if Christmas hasn’t always been here for . “It’s so classic, so typil that the queer muni have often loved a lot of the stutns that have not necsarily loved back, ” said Ben Lewis, the other half of The Christmas Setup’s gay power uple, sharg a sentiment echoed by pretty much everyone else terviewed. And so I thk for gay men, I thk even for Christmas enthiasts, I thk we’re chasg after that childhood fort and safety that maybe we missed at that time.

THE 10 BT GAY/LGBTQIA+ CHRISTMAS MOVI OF ALL TIME

Victor Garber—a hero to a generatn of gay people thanks to his work on Broadway, Tanic, Alias, Legends of Tomorrow, and jt beg Victor Garber—played straight Happit Season as closeted Harper Caldwell’s uptight polician father. I remember meetg a lot of gay kids when I was growg up who weren’t so happy about Christmas and, not unlike Happit Season, would have to go home and pretend [to be straight]. “Your hoe be this other thg for this season, ” said Lee, touchg upon many gay men’s reason for the season.

That seri—Holiday Home Makeover—serv a different purpose 2020’s avalanche of gay ntent. That show is hosted by an out gay man who sually refers to his partner ont of the straight fai he’s been tasked to make merry. Seeg a gay man openly talk his your same-sex partner at Christmas around strangers?

That’s a transformative notn for a lot of gay people. Even if gay dienc haven’t seen leral gay characters on screen, we still have our touchston.

WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS

Benjam Bradley lov Christmas Connecticut for gay in Barbara Stanwyck, and Na Wt returns to Whe Christmas every year thanks to the looks and stunts of Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney. BenDeLaCreme realized as an adult that Christmas at Pee-wee’s Playhoe is “the gayt thg, ” part bee “Miss Yvonne is the bt Christmas drag queen anyone uld ever hope for. Frank Oz, for example, is not a gay man, but somehow created Miss Piggy, who is the most inic, most nonil ‘gay’ character.

” While thkg aloud, Lewis realized why so many Christmas specials seem so low-key gay.

“There is somethg very gay about puppetry and stop motn animatn, jt general. Particularly wh stop motn — to put that amount of pastakg tail, the amount of hand glterg that mt have gone to the makg of any one of those movi, is textbook gay. “He’s this amazg bchy gay guy!

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All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Gay Leads.

“I thk [Happit Season is] groundbreakg bee ’s an hont-to-god holiday-themed rom that is for queer people, by queer people, ” said Jkx Monsoon of Happit Season, Hulu’s star-studd, major stud gay holiday rom starrg Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis. Gay creators have been tryg to make history for a mute. That may be why he didn’t ially nsir makg Dashg December a gay romance—and then leapt at the chance to make this particular dream e te (a dream starrg out actors starrg Peter Porte and Juan Pablo Di Pace).

HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE

” This simple tweak opened up the entire story for Helgren, turng what was jt a uple sentenc of plot to a full-fledged screenplay that speaks to not only the holiday season, but to the specific experience of beg gay a small, ral muny. By stg gay actors, the performers felt embolned to put their own experienc to their characters. The scene that mattered the most to Bent, and every sgle queer person watchg The Christmas Hoe at home, was Brandon and Jake’s kiss—y, a gay kiss on Hallmark.

One of our art partment guys who’s gay me up to me and had tears his ey. Ben Lewis felt pelled to make sure that his character’s emotnal arc Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup would ronate wh gay dienc. May your gays be merry and bright.

Merry & Gay.

A SUPER GAY CHRISTMAS

Watch “Merry & Gay” on the brand new lbian & queer streamg service, DIVA Box Office TV. In 2020, Hallmark e QUITE the drama when they promised they would fally create a gay Christmas film for their work – and then “fot” to clu when they announced their listg.

But was hard to overlook the fact that while both films featured a gay uple, they were mor characters – or at bt, part of an ensemble st!

I do have to ll out somethg I’ve noticed this year, everyone seems to be promotg Hallmark’s 2022 film The Holiday Ster the channel’s “first gay Christmas rom-” – umm, exce me? Have we fotten all the drama of 2020 and “The Christmas Hoe”, what they promised at the time to be the first gay Christmas Hallmark film?

MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI

However, I mt give Hallmark some props – at least they’ve acknowledged that ’s their first “Leadg Gay Couple a Hallmark Christmas movie. 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.

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

Lifetime’s first gay Christmas movie is a love story between (surprise! The Bt Queer Holiday Movi to Make the Yuleti Gay. Dec 11 (starrg Mean Girls' Jonathan Bent and Gee Krissa, 's the work's first-ever holiday rom- wh a same-sex uple ont and center), now is a great time to round up the all-time bt gay/LGBTQIA+ Christmas movi ever this list, all feature films that heavily feature Christmas and LGBTQIA+ characters are fair game.

Related: See Hallmark's Christmas Movie Lp for This YearPhilemon Chambers and Michael Urie the Christmas movie "Sgle All the Way" on NetflixNetflixSgle All the Way (2021)Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Hoc Poc' Kathy Najimy and LGBTQ in Jennifer Coolidge (h off her bt performance ever, The Whe Lot) star Netflix's exclive high-profile rom- about gay bt iends who disver feelgs over the holiday season, as one pos as the other's boyiend. Related: The Bt Christmas Episos of Your Favore TV ShowsThe Christmas Setup (2020)Ben Lewis, Blake Lee and gay in Fran Drcher star the Lifetime origal movie The Christmas Setup, about a New York attorney who llis wh his high school csh on a holiday vis back home.

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