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- THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
- JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
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Startg 2020, Christmas was for the gays. RELATED | 23 Christmas Songs by LGBTQ+ Artists to Make the Yuleti Gay. (Washgton Post Illtratn; Philippe Bosse/Netflix; iStock) Chey rom-s aren’t ually Robby Bailey’s preferred genre durg the holiday season, but after he watched Netflix’s gay Christmas movie “Sgle All the Way” wh his partner, he was pleasantly characters other movi often seem like ritur, wrten by someone who “met a gay person once, ” Bailey, 37, said.
”Some backlash has followed, remiscent of what Disney has faced om nservativ for cludg gay characters recent movi. And actrs whose work is adored by queer fans, such as Jennifer Coolidge, Fran Drcher and Ldsey Lohan, directly ve their LGBTQ followgs to support their holiday projects, more studs recent years have centered gay relatnships their rom- storyl. “Sgle All the Way, ” and other gay holiday movi like , follow the same rough storyle Hollywood shaped for their heterosexual equivalents, which the attractive big cy maven returns to their small town for the holidays and fds te love.
JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
But the Netflix origal also fed tails that brought pth to the gay characters. ”More LGBTQ stori should strive to be siarly cheerful, said Taylor Cowan, a 26-year-old Transportatn Secury Admistratn agent Sarasota, that her optns to see lbians like herself movi are limed, Cowan says she’s open to watchg any gay movie. “So many gay movi are very sad to watch, and they might be really good and betiful and everythg, but they’re not enjoyable, per se, ” she said.
”Bailey said his self-disveri were tied to movi such as the 1998 g-of-age film “Edge of Seventeen, ” pecially while growg up a small town where there weren’t many gay people. Stewart said he ed to hi away his bedroom to watch “Queer as Folk, ” an early-2000s Showtime drama seri that showsed a group of gay iends and was filmed near where Stewart lived. Last year, he found and watched “A Jenks Fay Christmas, ” which clus a lead character who’s gay and Black, like he Mason regniz that many Black movi ter to unrlyg homophobia among Black people, wh gay characters ma palatable for straight dienc.