Sgle All the Way: First look at Netflix's first gay Christmas movie |

Contents:

• WELL JGLE OUR BELLS, NETFLIX IS MAKG A GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE WH JENNIFER COOLIDGE
• ‘SGLE ALL THE WAY’ MAK THE YULETI GAY NETFLIX’S CHEY HOLIDAY ROM
• SEE FIRST-LOOK PHOTOS OF NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE SGLE ALL THE WAY

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

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‘SGLE ALL THE WAY’ MAK THE YULETI GAY NETFLIX’S CHEY HOLIDAY ROM

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!) two cis, whe, pretty f men (who are hbands real life!), but still has s mers.

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

Michael Urie will play Peter, and his meddlg mother (bee the gay reprentatn holiday movi always have a meddlg mother) will be Kathy Najimy. As Urie said a statement for Netflix, “If that isn’t some kda gay Christmas miracle, I don’t know what is. It is a tth universally acknowledged that a gay man posssn of a televisn December, mt be want of a chey Christmas movie.

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