‘The Holiday Ster’: Hallmark Debuts Gay Rom-Com this Sunday – Deadle

Contents:

• 'LIKE A GAY DREAM E TE': NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY HOLIDAY ROM- 'SGLE ALL THE WAY' RELISH JOY
• THE STAR OF NETFLIX'S NEW GAY ROM-COM EXPLAS WHY HE WANTED IT TO BE JT LIKE OTHER CHRISTMAS MOVI
• NETFLIX L UP GAY CHRISTMAS ROM- WH SCHT'S CREEK AND UGLY BETTY STARS

'LIKE A GAY DREAM E TE': NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY HOLIDAY ROM- 'SGLE ALL THE WAY' RELISH JOY

Here’s my gripe, though: the movi should be gayer. I mean, they’re already pretty gay (watch The Mistle-Ton‘ Tia Mowry and Tori Spellg have a show choir showdown and tell me different! But some of the movi should actually be gay, or bi, or feature trans actors, or be jt anywhere on the queer spectm.

Netlfix has even populated their holiday movi wh gay supportg characters, like Amber’s pal Andy the Christmas Prce seri.

THE STAR OF NETFLIX'S NEW GAY ROM-COM EXPLAS WHY HE WANTED IT TO BE JT LIKE OTHER CHRISTMAS MOVI

But gay leads? I’m gay and I love Christmas and I do not have the patience for Hallmark to drag s feet to the 21st century!

Gay people dog the most mundane stuff is policized and protted jt for the fact of beg gay. Give your dience even more fun and ftive holiday movi next year–and make that yuleti gay! And although Happit Season was predated by pennt films like Make the Yuleti Gay and holiday flicks wh queer storyl like Let It Snow, never before had an LGBTQ+ narrative been prented on such a grand sle a big-budget Christmas, a year later, Netflix has quickly followed su wh their first gay holiday rom-, Sgle All the Way.

It n't be a cince that openly gay actor Le Macfarlane—who has starred a number of h (heterosexual) Hallmark movi like Mistletoe Promise and Christmas Land— was st one of the leadg romantic rol for this film. The script treats mon stereotyp humoroly, like wh Peter's obssn wh plants or referenc to “Instagays. ” But also, the entire premise of Peter and Nick fallg love purposefully verts the historil trope of gay men verg up their relatnships by llg their partners their “roommat.

NETFLIX L UP GAY CHRISTMAS ROM- WH SCHT'S CREEK AND UGLY BETTY STARS

” Instead, the two roommat are a space where they're accepted and the whole fay is actually tryg to set them up (while also acknowledgg that some stanc gay men really are jt iends) Sgle All the Way isn't solely tertg bee of s nstctn. It also featur genuely funny moments, like when Nick tells Peter's father that he learned many of his rpentry skills om watchg HGTV and the dad asks if that stands for “Homosexual Gay” televisn, or like when Peter's nt, Sandy (Coolidge), hears he's gog on a date and asks, “Like om Grdr? Meanwhile, would be nice if some of the stars of the film (like Coolidge) were given a ltle more room to all though, Sgle All the Way succeeds what sets out to do, wh a wholome and progrsive tale of gay romance that rv out s own space among a long le of Christmas flicks.