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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.

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” 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.

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” 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. 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. The film stars Michael Urie as Peter, a gay man who liv Los Angel wh his bt iend Nick.

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Make the Yuleti Gay.

Make the Yuleti Gay jumped so Happit Season uld fly. 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.

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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”.

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See first-look photos of Netflix's first gay Christmas movie Sgle All the Way "You n expect pageantry, we, hunky Santas, a ltle b of ceptn, a whole lotta do-goodg, and Jennifer Coolidge, " says star Michael Urie. The streamer that ntu to expand to the Christmas movie space will gift you wh the rom- Sgle All the Way, which featur (for the first time) a gay romance at s center, wh two romantic prospects for the lead character. "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.

"Peter is a self scribed plant-gay — he has a fern named Judh — trapped a social media job he don't love and is always sgle when he go home for the holidays. It's the gayt thg to happen to Christmas sce Mariah!

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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.

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