Hallmark star Le Macfarlane on gay rom- 'Bros' breakout - Los Angel Tim

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• ‘BROTHERS & SISTERS’ LE MACFARLANE, ON BEG GAY! HIS RELATNSHIP WH WENTWORTH MILLER IS A PRETTY EXCG ONE. KNOW ABOUT IT
• HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF
• THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT
• OPENLY GAY ACTOR JONATHAN BENT TO STAR HALLMARK’S FIRST LGBTQ-THEMED CHRISTMAS MOVIE
• JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER

‘BROTHERS & SISTERS’ LE MACFARLANE, ON BEG GAY! HIS RELATNSHIP WH WENTWORTH MILLER IS A PRETTY EXCG ONE. KNOW ABOUT IT

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. 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 openly gay actor who has appeared a dozen Hallmark movi over the past stars oppose Billy Eichner Bros, theaters Sept.

Now wh Bros, a same-sex rom- -wrten by and starrg edian Billy Eichner, 43, the openly gay Macfarlane mak the leap to the big screen, starrg as Eichner's love tert.

HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF

They gave me, an openly gay actor, an opportuny to star as always a straight du so that was really ol of them. Bros isn't Macfarlane's first gay-themed rom-, eher. Also, he has not given any hts on his social media is starred queer romantic edy ‘Bros’ where he plays the role of a gay and is the love tert of Billy Eichner, -wrer and Macfarlane’s Net worthMacfarlane’s birth name is Thomas Le Macfarlane Jr.

" What you might not know is that Bent is openly gay and even starred the first queer-led Hallmark movie, "The Holiday Ster. " However, wasn't always this easy for him as a gay actor Hollywood.

The charismatic performer stars as Tuff McMurray, a gay wboy Hallmark's "Ri, " which he scrib to Pop Culturalist as an "enrichg" experience.

THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT

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Gee Krissa joed Jonathan Bent to star Hallmark's first gay-led feature film, "A Holiday Ster.

However, ’s a good first step that there are even enough movi for me to create this list of Hallmark movi wh gay characters. Most gay characters and upl the movi are whe and male.

OPENLY GAY ACTOR JONATHAN BENT TO STAR HALLMARK’S FIRST LGBTQ-THEMED CHRISTMAS MOVIE

Let’s be clear, as of the start of 2021, no Hallmark movie has featured gay characters as leads. No matter what official Hallmark reps say, The Christmas Hoe and Mix Up the Mederranean do not feature gay leads. While I tly enjoyed The Christmas Hoe and loved seeg the happily married gay uple, they played send-fiddle to the ma straight uple’s romantic storyle.

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

It jt so happens that Jeremy Jordan, who is playg that straight man is also playg his gay tw. This do not qualify as a gay lead character, and dog the bare mimum isn’t enarg Hallmark to anyone. The only memorable thg about this movie was one of the only tim a Hallmark character has said “I am gay.

Y, back 2012, Hallmark premiered a Christmas movie which the sister proclaimed she was gay. At first, I thought was jt a way to keep a man om htg on her, but an earlier scene shows that she actually is gay.

It also had the most subtle ht of a gay uple I have ever seen on TV.