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Contents:

• HALLMARK'S JONATHAN BENT TALKS INCLIVY AMIDST FIRST GAY-LED ROMANCE AND RIVAL NETWORK GAF’S ‘TRADNAL MARRIAGE’ DRAMA
• GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
• FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
• HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
• HALLMARK DROPS FIRST CHRISTMAS MOVIE WH LEAD GAY UPLE STARRG MEAN GIRLS ACTOR JONATHAN BENT
• HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
• FALLY, A GAY UPLE A HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE

HALLMARK'S JONATHAN BENT TALKS INCLIVY AMIDST FIRST GAY-LED ROMANCE AND RIVAL NETWORK GAF’S ‘TRADNAL MARRIAGE’ DRAMA

The first same-sex Hallmark kiss ever was featured the 2020 holiday movie The Christmas Hoe, which starred Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent and -star Brad Harr as a gay uple. RELATED | The Straight Brother In Lifetime's The Christmas Setup Is Gay, Too. The key qualifitn here is seri; the Hallmark origal movie The Christmas Hoe, which aired November 2020, famoly featured a kiss between two men, played by Mean Girls‘ Jonathan Bent and Aurora Teagarn Mysteri‘ Brad Harr, who also reprented Hallmark’s first married gay uple.

The Hallmark Channel ma history wh the seri fale of "Good Wch" on Sunday, an episo that featured the first kiss between an LGBTQ uple on one of the ble channel's origal smooch qutn was shared by Joy (Kat Barrell) and Zoey (Kyana Tera), who have also been reprentg as the first LGBTQ uple a Hallmark show throughout the "Good Wch" to Joy and Zoey's big fale moment, the only other same-sex kiss to occur on Hallmark Channel's origal programmg was the holiday movie "The Christmas Hoe, " a 2020 film that featured Jonathan Bent and Brad Harr as a gay married uple who lock lips durg the as "The Christmas Hoe" is a movie and the "Good Wch" is a seri, the Cathere Bell and Jam Denton-led show has the tle of first Hallmark Channel origal seri to pict an LGBTQ uple kissg. Now, Hallmark star Jonathan Bent has talked about the channel’s creased ph for clivy amid all of the Did Jonathan Bent Say About Hallmark’s Inclivy And Its First Gay-Led Romance?

However, until the 2022 Christmas movie schle entry, The Holiday Ster (which was one of the upg Hallmark movi until this past weekend), viewers hadn’t seen one of the films foc on a gay Girls star Bent, who’s one of the leads of the new movie and also executive produced , spoke to USA Today about the importance of the film’s clivy, and said:What's so special about The Holiday Ster is that 's the first time we'll see two men meet-cute and fall love at Christmas. (Youtube) From TV's first same-sex kiss ever to Disney's first gay kiss on "Star vs. 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.

GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY

)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 third movie followg Romance the Air and Love on Harbor Island has the distctn of also beg the first big movie on the channel to openly show a gay weddg onscreen.

FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’

This year, the channel cid to diversify s sts by featurg s first openly gay lead uple. However, ’s a good first step that there are even enough movi for me to create this list of Hallmark movi wh gay characters. Most gay characters and upl the movi are whe and male.

Let’s be clear, as of the start of 2021, no Hallmark movie has featured gay characters as leads.

No matter what official Hallmark reps say, The Christmas Hoe and Mix Up the Mederranean do not feature gay leads. While I tly enjoyed The Christmas Hoe and loved seeg the happily married gay uple, they played send-fiddle to the ma straight uple’s romantic storyle.

HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE

It jt so happens that Jeremy Jordan, who is playg that straight man is also playg his gay tw. This do not qualify as a gay lead character, and dog the bare mimum isn’t enarg Hallmark to anyone.

The only memorable thg about this movie was one of the only tim a Hallmark character has said “I am gay.

Y, back 2012, Hallmark premiered a Christmas movie which the sister proclaimed she was gay.

HALLMARK DROPS FIRST CHRISTMAS MOVIE WH LEAD GAY UPLE STARRG MEAN GIRLS ACTOR JONATHAN BENT

At first, I thought was jt a way to keep a man om htg on her, but an earlier scene shows that she actually is gay. It also had the most subtle ht of a gay uple I have ever seen on TV.

This movie also marks the first time a gay uple has shared an on-screen kiss on any Hallmark work. Though there is no POC love tert as of yet, Dani McKellar’s Kayleigh was given a gay bt iend, which for Hallmark is a gigantic step forward.

HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON

My only knock on the movie is how Hallmark attempted to market as the work’s first movie wh gay leads. This is the send Kimberly Stad/Pl Campbell llaboratn that has clud a gay uple. I love how they’re slowg chippg away at archaic notns of love one edy and one gay character at a time.

"This uld be seen as subtle sha to their holiday movie rivals Hallmark, who they are beatg to the punch by featurg a gay uple The Christmas Set-Up. In fact, Hallmark received cricism om LGBT activists December 2019 after they pulled ads for weddg planng pany Zola which featured two women they eventually restated those ads and issued an apology for the "hurt and disappotment [they had] untentnally ed, " the cint served to make the pany look out of touch pared to Lifetime, who that same year laid the ground for their LGBTQ Christmas movie wh a gay kiss one of their movi.

The gay kiss 'Twkle All the Way' set the ground for this year's Lifetime Christmas movie gay romance. In the film Twkle All the Way, released two weeks before Hallmark first pulled the Zola ads, the fal on-screen kiss is between two men a gay married uple, one of whom is the brother of the romantic lead. Though the channel has had some posive pictns of LGBTQ+ characters like Jefey Bowyer-Chapman's Jay UnReal, they have also shown TV movi like 1997's Any Mother's Son, te story of a navy officer killed for beg gay, 2006's A Girl Like Me about the murr of trans teen Gwen Arjo and Trapped, about nversn TV movi like 2000's The Tth About Jane and 2001's What Mak A Fay were posive fay stori about lbians, but the fact remas that if you are a trans or another LGBTQ+ person, you are more likely to die than to fd love at Christmas Set-Up is g to Lifetime this fall.

FALLY, A GAY UPLE A HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE

The first gay kiss on the Hallmark Channel was this year on The Christmas Hoe.

Lifetime had the first gay romance wh the Christmas Setup. Paramount Network’s first Christmas movie was about gay wboys.