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Contents:
- MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
- WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
- THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
- GAY AS CHRISTMAS
- THE 10 BT GAY/LGBTQIA+ CHRISTMAS MOVI OF ALL TIME
- TAKE CHRIST OUT OF CHRISTMAS AND TURN GAY WH THE QUEER YULETI RATNS
- THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
The out gay stars of some of 2021's biggt Christmas movi expla why this year is the happit season for diversy. * gay as christmas *
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WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
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THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
The new, LGBTQ+ holiday films and seri are gog to make the yuleti hella gay this holiday season! * gay as christmas *
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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.
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"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.
(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.
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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.