After a public outcry last year when pulled an ad featurg a same-sex weddg, Hallmark Channel is back wh s first holiday movie featurg a gay uple.
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- FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
- TREAT WILLIAMS SHOWED ALL PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN HOW TO LOVE THEIR KIDS ‘THE CHRISTMAS HOE’
- 'CHRISTMAS HOE 2' IS MAKG THE YULETI GAY AGA FOR HALLMARK
FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
After all, the project hails om Hallmark Channel, whose annual “Countdown to Christmas” lp of origal movi — a seasonal mastay both lucrative and beloved — clud 23 tl 2019, none featurg a gay uple. )As turned out, Bent‘s love tert wasn’t a woman at all: Instead, he’ll play half of the first gay uple highlighted the work’s heavily watched holiday programmg.
”Grossman — who is gay, as are Bent and Harr — unrstands where they’re g om and hop to meet some of the Hallmark fans halfway.
This isn’t the first Hallmark movie wh gay characters this year; that honor probably go to Christmas wh the Darlgs, although I haven’t watched all of the 127 Hallmark movi that have aired over the past 3 weeks. But still, that film (along wh another g out soon) featur gay characters supportg rol.
TREAT WILLIAMS SHOWED ALL PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN HOW TO LOVE THEIR KIDS ‘THE CHRISTMAS HOE’
The Christmas Hoe mak history as s gay characters are part of a six-person lead; their adoptn storyle is as emotnally ronant as the straight romance. This is somethg that may be lost on straight dienc, but seeg a married gay uple kiss a Hallmark Christmas movie, a movie where their stggle do not volve g out—the effect that that moment is gog to have on an entire generatn of queer kids will be felt for s to e.
Mike and Andi are a charmg pair, and watchg their lifelong love story unfold via Rashomon style flashbacks had me fully vted the straights. Hallmark cidg to have a married gay uple be part of The Christmas Hoe was big al when the movie premiered back November of 2020.
I wasn’t expectg The Christmas Hoe 2 to go que so ep to Brandon’s thought procs as an out gay man. We did see him and Jake experience trouble durg the adoptn procs due to beg a gay uple the first movie.
'CHRISTMAS HOE 2' IS MAKG THE YULETI GAY AGA FOR HALLMARK
As a queer man, he knows that if he slips jt once, pecially as a gay father, certa people will look at him differently and will imply that he failed at beg a parent bee he’s not straight enough to be an actual father.