After a public outcry last year when pulled an ad featurg a same-sex weddg, Hallmark Channel is back wh s first holiday movie featurg a gay uple.
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- JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
- HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
- FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
The Hallmark Channel is known for s chey but heartwarmg Christmas movi. This year, the channel cid to diversify s sts by featurg s first openly gay lead uple. * who are the gay guys on hallmark channel *
Canadian actor Jake Foy is makg wav for playg the openly gay wboy Tuff McMurray on Hallmark's newt wtern seri, Ri. Dubbed by The Advote's sister publitn Out as the "gay kg of Christmas, " Jonathan Bent has starred some of the Hallmark Channel's most beloved holiday films. Alberta native Brad Harr is an out actor known pecially for The Christmas Hoe seri, which he and Jonathan Bent played the first married gay uple Hallmark history.
The multalented (and proudly out) Ali Liebert has both acted and directed projects for Hallmark, and she helmed the groundbreakg gay Christmas movie The Holiday Ster.
HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
" What you might not know is that Bent is openly gay and even starred the first queer-led Hallmark movie, "The Holiday Ster. " However, wasn't always this easy for him as a gay actor Hollywood. The charismatic performer stars as Tuff McMurray, a gay wboy Hallmark's "Ri, " which he scrib to Pop Culturalist as an "enrichg" experience.
"If we're able to watch Tuff wrtle wh that, would set a lovely, lovely precent for a lot of young people, gay or not. He was st alongsi Billy Eichner for the 2022 gay romantic edy tled "Bros.
Gee Krissa joed Jonathan Bent to star Hallmark's first gay-led feature film, "A Holiday Ster. The Hallmark Channel is set to make history — and make good on s promise for more LGBTQ-cln — wh s first holiday movie featurg a gay lead character. The openly gay actor who has appeared a dozen Hallmark movi over the past stars oppose Billy Eichner Bros, theaters Sept.
FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
Now wh Bros, a same-sex rom- -wrten by and starrg edian Billy Eichner, 43, the openly gay Macfarlane mak the leap to the big screen, starrg as Eichner's love tert. They gave me, an openly gay actor, an opportuny to star as always a straight du so that was really ol of them.
Bros isn't Macfarlane's first gay-themed rom-, eher. In the movie, which buts Sunday, Bent plays Sam, a gay guy whose personal life suffers at the st of his profsnal life — work over marriage.
'" Add to the formula the actor's love of the '80s classic Uncle Buck starrg John Candy, pl his sire to see a movie that was "really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022.