The out gay stars of some of 2021's biggt Christmas movi expla why this year is the happit season for diversy.
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READG THE GRCH AS GAY TO PISS OFF DR. SSS
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Brad Harr and Jonathan Bent played Hallmark Channel's first gay married uple the 2020 holiday movie The Christmas Hoe.
"It's so tertg: I went om hidg who I was to the world and kissg Ldsay Lohan Mean Girls to starrg as part of the first gay uple a Christmas movie for the biggt Christmas work the world, " says the actor, who me out publicly 2017. The actor has sce e out as gay, and marvels at how tim have changed. 2, Netflix dropped Sgle All the Way, starrg Michael Urie and Philemon Chambers — the first out gay Black actor to headle a holiday movie — as Los Angel-based bt iends who disver that they may be somethg more durg a Christmas vis to Urie's small-town home.
PARTG GLANC: GAY GRCHG IT …
Celebrate beg alive, the iends and fay you have, and the gay life you lead wh The Grch cktail and cheers to your childhood. * gay grinch *
"And I thk what’s so great about this year is that the aren't stori about beg gay — they are stori about love, and that's somethg we n all intify wh. The fact that they’re gay isn’t the foc of the entire storyle.
"I'm extremely proud that the problems the characters have [are] the same problems that a straight person might have, " Urie, who sred his breakthrough screen role as Vansa Williams's out gay assistant on Ugly Betty, tells Yahoo Entertament. "They are not alg wh g out wo; they are not alg wh feelgs of shame; and they are not alg wh homophobic fai. "Philemon Chambers and Michael Urie star Netflix's first gay-themed holiday movie Sgle All the Way.
If you thk I’m about to your childhood by readg the Grch as gay character, you’d be even more disappoted to disver the tth about Dr. Sss. Did you know that The Cat the Hat was… * gay grinch *
(Photo: Philippe Bosse/Netflix)Chambers agre that ntemporary LGBTQ stori — holiday-related or otherwise — have evolved beyond the kds of g-out stori that played outsized rol movi like The Birdge and even Happit Season, where gay upl feel pelled to hi their inti om their loved on. "If they thk gay people don't love Christmas, then they're livg unr some kd of heterosexual rock.
If you don't like watchg gay people love Christmas, then you n go fd one of the lerally thoands of other straight Christmas movi. As we take over, Christmas movi will be herently gay, and the on about straight people will have to be scribed as straight Christmas movi!
I hate to play the Gay Grch Who Stole Christmas, but there's a movement afoot by the Southern Comfort Baptists to do away wh all spected gay * gay grinch *
Is the Grch secretly a gay man? A wonrful, awful, Grchy ia also strik : is the Grch a metaphor for a gay man? We also know more than a few homophob who would wce at the ia of a gatherg of gays at the apartment down the hall.
So no, the Grch may not lerally be a gay man, or even an untentnal metaphor.
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