Merry and Gay: 8 Queer Movi to Watch Over the Christmas Holidays

Contents:

• MERRY CHRISTMAS GAY
• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
• LGBTQ FILMS: 10 MERRY AND GAY HOLIDAY MOVI TO ADD TO YOUR WISH LIST
• GAY CHRISTMAS CARDS
• 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
• GAY CHRISTMAS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• MERRY AND GAY: 8 QUEER MOVI TO WATCH OVER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
• GIFS TO MAKE CHRISTMAS GAY(ER)
• A SUPER GAY CHRISTMAS
• GAYMERRYCHRISTMAS GAYMERRYCHRISTMASOMTHEBOYS GIF
• GAY SANTA & THE BOYTOY: A BEAR-Y MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS GAY

Christmas 2020 is the gayt Christmas ever.

This holiday season has gifted dienc wh four—y, four—gay Christmas roms: Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe, Hulu’s Happit Season, Lifetime’s The Christmas Set-Up (December 12), and Paramount’s Dashg December (December 13). There have been more mastream gay holiday roms released 2020 than every other year rerd pop culture history bed. Gays didn’t jt startg lovg Christmas this year.

THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN

“I thk when they said make the Yuleti gay, they meant , ” said Jonathan Bent, one half of the gay uple at the heart of Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe.

LGBTQ FILMS: 10 MERRY AND GAY HOLIDAY MOVI TO ADD TO YOUR WISH LIST

By featurg a married gay uple ont and center (Brad Harr plays Bent’s onscreen spoe), the film is a major step forward for the work. '” The works—Hallmark, Lifetime, Paramount—fally donned their gay apparel, jtifyg s of passn for this historilly heteronormative holiday. Bee, honey, the gays have always been here for Christmas—even if Christmas hasn’t always been here for .

GAY CHRISTMAS CARDS

“It’s so classic, so typil that the queer muni have often loved a lot of the stutns that have not necsarily loved back, ” said Ben Lewis, the other half of The Christmas Setup’s gay power uple, sharg a sentiment echoed by pretty much everyone else terviewed. And so I thk for gay men, I thk even for Christmas enthiasts, I thk we’re chasg after that childhood fort and safety that maybe we missed at that time.

Victor Garber—a hero to a generatn of gay people thanks to his work on Broadway, Tanic, Alias, Legends of Tomorrow, and jt beg Victor Garber—played straight Happit Season as closeted Harper Caldwell’s uptight polician father.

I remember meetg a lot of gay kids when I was growg up who weren’t so happy about Christmas and, not unlike Happit Season, would have to go home and pretend [to be straight]. “Your hoe be this other thg for this season, ” said Lee, touchg upon many gay men’s reason for the season.

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

That seri—Holiday Home Makeover—serv a different purpose 2020’s avalanche of gay ntent. That show is hosted by an out gay man who sually refers to his partner ont of the straight fai he’s been tasked to make merry.

Seeg a gay man openly talk his your same-sex partner at Christmas around strangers? That’s a transformative notn for a lot of gay people. Even if gay dienc haven’t seen leral gay characters on screen, we still have our touchston.

GAY CHRISTMAS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Benjam Bradley lov Christmas Connecticut for gay in Barbara Stanwyck, and Na Wt returns to Whe Christmas every year thanks to the looks and stunts of Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney. BenDeLaCreme realized as an adult that Christmas at Pee-wee’s Playhoe is “the gayt thg, ” part bee “Miss Yvonne is the bt Christmas drag queen anyone uld ever hope for. Frank Oz, for example, is not a gay man, but somehow created Miss Piggy, who is the most inic, most nonil ‘gay’ character.

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

” While thkg aloud, Lewis realized why so many Christmas specials seem so low-key gay.

“There is somethg very gay about puppetry and stop motn animatn, jt general.

Particularly wh stop motn — to put that amount of pastakg tail, the amount of hand glterg that mt have gone to the makg of any one of those movi, is textbook gay. “He’s this amazg bchy gay guy!

MERRY AND GAY: 8 QUEER MOVI TO WATCH OVER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Gay Leads.

“I thk [Happit Season is] groundbreakg bee ’s an hont-to-god holiday-themed rom that is for queer people, by queer people, ” said Jkx Monsoon of Happit Season, Hulu’s star-studd, major stud gay holiday rom starrg Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis. Gay creators have been tryg to make history for a mute.

That may be why he didn’t ially nsir makg Dashg December a gay romance—and then leapt at the chance to make this particular dream e te (a dream starrg out actors starrg Peter Porte and Juan Pablo Di Pace). ” This simple tweak opened up the entire story for Helgren, turng what was jt a uple sentenc of plot to a full-fledged screenplay that speaks to not only the holiday season, but to the specific experience of beg gay a small, ral muny.

GIFS TO MAKE CHRISTMAS GAY(ER)

By stg gay actors, the performers felt embolned to put their own experienc to their characters. The scene that mattered the most to Bent, and every sgle queer person watchg The Christmas Hoe at home, was Brandon and Jake’s kiss—y, a gay kiss on Hallmark.

One of our art partment guys who’s gay me up to me and had tears his ey. Ben Lewis felt pelled to make sure that his character’s emotnal arc Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup would ronate wh gay dienc.

A SUPER GAY CHRISTMAS

May your gays be merry and bright.

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TV holiday rom-s have bee a ttage dtry over the last 20 years, so some may be surprised ’s taken this long for Hallmark and Lifetime to send jad gay urban home for Christmas to fd the love of their mastream holiday movi are largely aimed at straight women, wh predictable plots and sackfuls of stereotyp about relatnships, genr rol, fay and “the te meang of Christmas.

Below, we celebrate a dozen movi that make the yuleti jt a ltle b gayer.

GAY SANTA & THE BOYTOY: A BEAR-Y MERRY CHRISTMAS

In a si plot, Everett’s gay af brother reveals that he and his partner are planng to “The Fay Stone” don’t revent the holiday movie, do shake up nventns about expectatns when to romance. 'Make the Yuleti Gay' (2009)College stunt Gunn (Keh Jordan) is totally out at school, but he hasn’t gotten around to tellg his Midwtern fay that he’s gay and that his “roommate, ” Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero of "Degrassi"), is actually his boyiend. "Williams plays Ebony Scrooge, a succsful but nasty R&B sger who mends her ways wh the help of three spectral visors, cludg gay fave Kathy Griff as the Ghost of Christmas Past.

'Some of My Bt Friends Are…' (1971)You might have some trouble fdg this low-budget holiday gem om wrer-director Mervyn Nelson, but ’ll be worth the effort: A group of regulars gather at the Blue Jay, a Greenwich Village gay bar, on Christmas Eve Rue McClanahan, Fannie Flagg, trans pneer Candy Darlg and Gary Sanrs of “WKRP Ccnati, ” “Some of My Bt Friends Are…” is an astonishgly ndid time psule of the Stonewall era that remds that gays have been fg chosen fai for generatns. No, not Rudolph — I’m referrg to Hermey, the misf elf who wants to qu Santa’s workshop to be a gay subtext this stop-motn classic om Rank/Bass is pretty hard to miss — even before bearish lumberjack Yon Corneli tak Rudolph and Hermey to the Island of Misf Toys. As Tommy, the acerbic gay black sheep of the Larson fay who nohels gets a love tert (of sorts).

Who needs Bg Crosby and Rosemary Clooney when you’ve got a morn tearjerker touchg on gay relatnships, HIV/AIDS, substance abe, gentrifitn and more — all the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve?