The Gayt Christmas Ever: Insi 2020's Big, Queer Holiday Explosn

Contents:

• HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
• THE 10 BT GAY/LGBTQIA+ CHRISTMAS MOVI OF ALL TIME
• 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
• 10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
• JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
• SGLE ALL THE WAY REVIEW – NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM
• NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM-COM IS THE #3 MOVIE RIGHT NOW
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE

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? Why You Can’t Miss It: No, this isn’t a queer rom, but havg Hoewiv the tle immediately mak the movie gay.

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!

MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

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.

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

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.

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.

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

(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. Dpe Olaf’s parents beg very quirky (wh nam Anya and Sven – y I thk they may have a se agast Frozen too), he still worri that they may reject him if he reveals that he’s gay.

Make the Yuleti Gay is available to rent or buy on your favore VOD Make the Yuleti Gay on Amazon Prime.

10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

(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. This leads to an awkward Christmas wh Jordan’s Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas is a film that feels thentic. The movie also has an appearance by Stephnie Weir as a “psychic” that’s the highlight of the film bee ’s jt so The Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas on Amazon.

It centers around two gay men meetg when Wyatt (Peter Porte) returns to his hometown for the holidays.

(Image cred: Lifetime)The Christmas Setup (2020) The Christmas Setup is Lifetime’s first Christmas film centered on a gay uple. WATCH NOW9 The Christmas Setupurty of LifetimeThis classic Christmas movie plot wh gay ma characters feels like sippg a hot a.

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WATCH NOW11 Make the Yuleti Gayurty of TLAWh lots of wks and nods to s own ches, this mpy holiday romp follows them lots of will regnize. It gets a b dramatic, but Holiday's portrayal is hont, empathetic, and totally NOW14 Red Lodgeurty of AmazonThis 2013 movie is renamed The Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas on Amazon Prime, but 's a great holiday watch by any name. 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.

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.

JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER

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. 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.

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

TV holiday rom-s have bee a ttage dtry over the last 20 years, so some may be surprised ’s taken this long for Hallmark and Lifetime to send jad gay urban home for Christmas to fd the love of their mastream holiday movi are largely aimed at straight women, wh predictable plots and sackfuls of stereotyp about relatnships, genr rol, fay and “the te meang of Christmas. In a si plot, Everett’s gay af brother reveals that he and his partner are planng to “The Fay Stone” don’t revent the holiday movie, do shake up nventns about expectatns when to romance. 'Make the Yuleti Gay' (2009)College stunt Gunn (Keh Jordan) is totally out at school, but he hasn’t gotten around to tellg his Midwtern fay that he’s gay and that his “roommate, ” Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero of "Degrassi"), is actually his boyiend.

"Williams plays Ebony Scrooge, a succsful but nasty R&B sger who mends her ways wh the help of three spectral visors, cludg gay fave Kathy Griff as the Ghost of Christmas Past. 'Some of My Bt Friends Are…' (1971)You might have some trouble fdg this low-budget holiday gem om wrer-director Mervyn Nelson, but ’ll be worth the effort: A group of regulars gather at the Blue Jay, a Greenwich Village gay bar, on Christmas Eve Rue McClanahan, Fannie Flagg, trans pneer Candy Darlg and Gary Sanrs of “WKRP Ccnati, ” “Some of My Bt Friends Are…” is an astonishgly ndid time psule of the Stonewall era that remds that gays have been fg chosen fai for generatns.

No, not Rudolph — I’m referrg to Hermey, the misf elf who wants to qu Santa’s workshop to be a gay subtext this stop-motn classic om Rank/Bass is pretty hard to miss — even before bearish lumberjack Yon Corneli tak Rudolph and Hermey to the Island of Misf Toys.

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

As Tommy, the acerbic gay black sheep of the Larson fay who nohels gets a love tert (of sorts). Who needs Bg Crosby and Rosemary Clooney when you’ve got a morn tearjerker touchg on gay relatnships, HIV/AIDS, substance abe, gentrifitn and more — all the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve? This year you might want to give Love Actually and The Holiday a miss though, and make the yuleti gay wh an LGBT+ Christmas film.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

The film stars Michael Urie as Peter, a gay man who liv Los Angel wh his bt iend Nick. Released 2009, the film follows Gunn, a llege stunt who’s openly gay at school and is headg home – and back to the closet – for Christmas wh his fay.