10 Queer Christmas Movi to Make the Yuleti Gay

Contents:

• NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM-COM IS THE #3 MOVIE RIGHT NOW
• SEE FIRST-LOOK PHOTOS OF NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE SGLE ALL THE WAY
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
• 10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS STREAMG NOW
• WELL JGLE OUR BELLS, NETFLIX IS MAKG A GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE WH JENNIFER COOLIDGE

NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM-COM IS THE #3 MOVIE RIGHT NOW

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. 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. A hyperfaiar, perhaps way-too-overdone heteronormative plot flipped to be gay?

SEE FIRST-LOOK PHOTOS OF NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE SGLE ALL THE WAY

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. Lifetime’s first gay Christmas movie is a love story between (surprise! The Bt Queer Holiday Movi to Make the Yuleti Gay.

But was the film’s sweet vanilla flavour that ma such a radil step, draggg a story ually told the dark om the arthoe to the bright lights of the multiplex, givg gay teens somethg jt as big and brash as the many, many, many straight-skewed high school films they had grown up on. The latter arrived as both Hallmark and Lifetime cid to clu gay characters as leads their ftive fare, rather than sassy nfidants, wh last year’s The Christmas Setup and The Christmas Hoe (a sequel to which also lands this month).

MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

Queer characters are ually associated wh cy life and so seeg a gay man tempted by the allure of a quieter, fay first future is at the very least somewhat unnventnal on film. It’s also rehg to see a gay film where g out isn’t the thst of the nflict and where fay members are all tomatilly acceptg, a normal for many queer people that is rarely shown on screen. But the are small ws.Bee what Sgle All the Way ultimately do bt is show that a gay Christmas movie n be jt as hackneyed as a straight one.

10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE 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’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS STREAMG NOW

” 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. 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.

WELL JGLE OUR BELLS, NETFLIX IS MAKG A GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE WH JENNIFER COOLIDGE

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.