The out gay stars of some of 2021's biggt Christmas movi expla why this year is the happit season for diversy.
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
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WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
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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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TAKE CHRIST OUT OF CHRISTMAS AND TURN GAY WH THE QUEER YULETI RATNS
"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.
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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! 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).