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.
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- 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
FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
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. * first gay couple on hallmark movie *
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. )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 year, the channel cid to diversify s sts by featurg s first openly 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. Gay characters have been featured Hallmark movi before; Bent, fact, has played married gay man The Christmas Hoe and The Christmas Hoe 2 2020 and 2021.
“We felt that was time for a story wh a gay uple, ” says Daly, who April signed Bent to an exclive, multi-picture al.
HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
The Holiday Ster lands at a time when gay rom-s are havg a moment. This year, the works troduce their most diverse lp ever, featurg their first film wh a story le about a gay uple, starrg Hallmark staple, Jonathan Bent. This year’s movi reflect our most diverse reprentatn of talent, narrativ, and fai, cludg The Christmas Hoe, featurg a storyle about a gay uple lookg to adopt their first child, ” EVP of Programmg Michelle Viry said a statement on Wednday.