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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.

GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY

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.

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

)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.

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

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

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.

HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON

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.

FALLY, A GAY UPLE A HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE

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.