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10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

The new, LGBTQ+ holiday films and seri are gog to make the yuleti hella gay this holiday season! * gay christmas films *

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! 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.

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.

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

From ‘Happit Season’ and ‘Carol’ to Netflix’s ‘Sgle All the Way’ and Lifetime’s ‘Unr the Christmas Tree,’ the are the bt gay and lbian Christmas movi. Holiday-romance movi aren’t jt for the straights, and the LGBTQ films prove . * gay christmas films *

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. 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.

The two gay characters, Brandon and Jake, are fully accepted by their relativ and iends and their sexualy isn’t the ma foc of the storyle, stead foc on their efforts to adopt a child. The storyle wouldn’t sound out of place a classic heterosexual Hallmark movie, but the wrers clearly said “make gayer”. 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!

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The out gay stars of some of 2021's biggt Christmas movi expla why this year is the happit season for diversy. * gay christmas films *

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?

However, I mt give Hallmark some props – at least they’ve acknowledged that ’s their first “Leadg Gay Couple a Hallmark Christmas movie. WATCH NOW9 The Christmas Setupurty of LifetimeThis classic Christmas movie plot wh gay ma characters feels like sippg a hot a.

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

Although Christmas is mp as fuck and Rudolph is a gay in, fact, holiday films don’t have the greatt reputatn when to queer storytellg. In recent years, however, the yuleti has never been gayer thanks to historic rom-s such as Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup, Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe and Hulu’s Happit Season, which notably beme the first gay Christmas film released by a major stud.

HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE

Hallmark’s first film to promently feature a gay uple, The Christmas Hoe, is back for a sequel wh Jonathan Bent and Brad Harr reprisg their rol as married uple Brandon and Jake. Netflix will make history this year wh Sgle All The Way, their first ever Christmas film focg on a gay romance. My parents are played by Barry Bostwick and Kathy Najimy — a batn that scientists agree n only produce sons who are gay and love Christmas.

A married uple (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) v their adult children, cludg gay son Brandon (Jonathan Bent) and his partner (Brad Hardner), to stay wh them the weeks leadg up to Christmas to revis the old fay tradn of transformg their childhood home to "The Christmas Hoe" — a procs that means extensively ratg the home for the Christmas holiday for what uld possibly be the last "The Christmas Hoe" has a sequel, 's not nearly as good as the origal. A flurry of recent queer Christmas tl is addg some alternativ to the tradnal holiday picks, om Unr the Christmas Tree—Lifetime’s first lbian romance—to Sgle All The Way—Netflix’s first Christmas film foced on a gay romance. Gay wboys galore, and a lot more optimistic than Brokeback Mounta, Dashg December’s unrlyg worry of losg the ranch be a backdrop to the romance that ign between the two stablehands.

Netflix’s first Christmas film foced on a gay romance, Sgle All The Way, bundl up the tried and tted rom- formula and re-wraps some morn wrappg paper to liver a joyo gift of open-armed acceptance. A Hallmark sequel, The Christmas Hoe 2: Deck Those Halls rn wh the Mchell fay after their parents, Bill (Treat Williams) and Phylis (Sharon Lawrence), tried to sell the fay hoe The Christmas Hoe—Hallmark’s first movie promently featurg a gay uple. Rng wh fan favore Mo (Alex Newell), Zoey’s gay sikick-turned-star, Zoey’s Extraordary Christmas’ song-and-dance numbers are sure to awaken the seasonal spir.

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

Reddor techbear72 noted that, “Dashg December wh Andie MacDowell [has] ma leads that are gay real life, which is nice for reprentatn, too. Followg a closeted gay llege stunt spendg wter break wh his parents and brgg his boyiend home as a “iend” so he wouldn’t have to spend Christmas alone, Make the Yuleti Gay shows the stggle of both young men as they stggle to e out together.

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Reddor evelyngeln feels that, "Unr the Christmas Tree [is a] typil big cy person go to small town but wh a gay/lbian twist. Reddor Kjwells94 stat, “The Christmas Setup [is] a cute gay Lifetime movie, and the ma characters are actually hbands real life, so they have great chemistry.

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.

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

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. 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.

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