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.
Contents:
- MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
- HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
- 10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
- FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
- MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI
- HALLMARK'S JONATHAN BENT TALKS INCLIVY AMIDST FIRST GAY-LED ROMANCE AND RIVAL NETWORK GAF’S ‘TRADNAL MARRIAGE’ DRAMA
- JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
- A MEAN GIRLS ALUM IS BRGG A GAY ROMANCE TO HALLMARK'S CHRISTMAS LP
MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
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. * gay romance on hallmark *
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. Canadian actor Jake Foy is makg wav for playg the openly gay wboy Tuff McMurray on Hallmark's newt wtern seri, Ri. Dubbed by The Advote's sister publitn Out as the "gay kg of Christmas, " Jonathan Bent has starred some of the Hallmark Channel's most beloved holiday films.
Alberta native Brad Harr is an out actor known pecially for The Christmas Hoe seri, which he and Jonathan Bent played the first married gay uple Hallmark history.
HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
The "Mean Girls" actor will star "The Christmas Hoe," a holiday film about a gay uple lookg to adopt their first child. * gay romance on hallmark *
The multalented (and proudly out) Ali Liebert has both acted and directed projects for Hallmark, and she helmed the groundbreakg gay Christmas movie The Holiday Ster. The Hallmark Channel is gettg to the gay Christmas a part of s Countdown to Christmas event, Hallmark Channel has announced s first Christmas movie that foc on a gay Holiday Ster will be released on December 11 on The Hallmark Channel and will star Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent, Gee Krissa, and Chelsea — Becky VanValkenburg (@Becky VanValkenburg).
10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
* gay romance on hallmark *
He mak the trip wh his hband Jake, played by Brad Harr, and the pair wa to hear about the possible adoptn of their first 's only September, but wh Hallmark announcg s slate of holiday movi, and other platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and Lifetime havg also announced holiday movi and specials, so far, The Holiday Ster is the only one to foc on gay characters.
FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
Startg 2020, Christmas was for the gays. RELATED | 23 Christmas Songs by LGBTQ+ Artists to Make the Yuleti Gay.
The tradn ntu 2021, wh films starrg RuPl, Michael Urie, Jonathan Ben and more — pl appearanc by gay favor like Jennifer your holiday season bge-watchg ssns acrdgly wh the upg movi and specials. 2, NetflixTony-wng director Michael Mayer (“Sprg Awakeng”) helms Netflix’s first gay holiday film, which se perpetually sgle Peter (Michael Urie) beggg his bt iend, Nick (Philemon Chambers), to e home wh him and pretend to be his boyiend to put an end to his fay’s nstant meddlg. But the se is put to the tt when his mother (another gay fave, Kathy Najimy) sets him up wh her hunky traer (“Brothers and Sisters” actor Le Macfarlane) to “Sgle All the Way” for stg three out actors as gay characters — and for stg Jennifer Coolidge, perd.
3, NetflixFormer nttants return to the tents for a pair of holiday-themed episos: In “The Great Christmas Bakg Show, ” out ic Tom Allen subs for Noel Fieldg to -host wh gay prenter Matt Lus as season ne’s Jon Jenks and Kim-Joy Hewlett and season 11’s Herme and Rowan Williams whip up wondro Yuleti treats.
MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI
“The showstopper challenge, they’ve got to make a ftive feast illn ke, ” judge Pl Hollywood teased, acrdg to “The Great New Year’s Bakg Show, ” 's season five wner Nancy Birtwhistle up agast season ne champn Rahul Mandal and two nttants om season 19: Gay nerd Henry Bird and wchy Helena Garcia. Baneatta’s gay son, Kenny (Anthony Chatmon II), brgs his boyiend, Logan (Derek Chadwick), home for the holidays but is given an icy receptn. 18, Hallmark ChannelLast year, after sparkg outrage by pullg a jewelry ad featurg lbian bris, Hallmark ma amends by featurg the first gay uple one of s many, many holiday movi: "The Christmas Hoe" sred more than 13 ln viewgs over the 2020 holiday season, so a sequel was a no-braer.
In the origal, Bill and Phylis Mchell (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) ved their adult sons home for the holidays, then drop a bomb that they’re sellg the fay time around, gay son Brandon (Jonathan Ben) and his hband, Jake (Brad Harr), pete wh Brandon’s straight brother, Mike (Robert Buckley), to see who n create the most ftively rated Christmas hoe. 19, LifetimeLast year, Lifetime buted s first gaycentric holiday flick, "The Christmas Setup, " and this season, 's brgg a lbian romance to the small this holiday tale om "The Christmas Setup" screenwrer Michael J. Related: Bt Gay Movi Streamg on NetflixTo make sure the movi liver all the passn, fatuatn, urtship and flirtatn you may be cravg, our remendatns only clu movi where romantic relatnships are ont-and-center—which means such LGBTQ+ gems as, say, Can You Ever Five Me?
HALLMARK'S JONATHAN BENT TALKS INCLIVY AMIDST FIRST GAY-LED ROMANCE AND RIVAL NETWORK GAF’S ‘TRADNAL MARRIAGE’ DRAMA
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Fire Island (2022)Pri and Prejudice leans to pri Spa Night and Driveways director Andrew Ahn's magnificent rom- (wrten by star Joel Kim Booster) that loosely adapts Jane Aten for gay mec.
Love, Simon (2018)You may never fd a film more quietly revolutnary than Love, Simon, the first-ever Hollywood stud-released picture centered on a gay teen. Stranger by the Lake has so much on s bra that would be entirely rctive to jt label a "gay movie.
JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
This year, the channel cid to diversify s sts by featurg s first openly gay lead uple. A flurry of recent queer Christmas tl is addg some alternativ to the tradnal holiday picks, om Unr the Christmas Tree—Lifetime’s first lbian romance—to Sgle All The Way—Netflix’s first Christmas film foced on a gay romance. Gay wboys galore, and a lot more optimistic than Brokeback Mounta, Dashg December’s unrlyg worry of losg the ranch be a backdrop to the romance that ign between the two stablehands.
A MEAN GIRLS ALUM IS BRGG A GAY ROMANCE TO HALLMARK'S CHRISTMAS LP
Netflix’s first Christmas film foced on a gay romance, Sgle All The Way, bundl up the tried and tted rom- formula and re-wraps some morn wrappg paper to liver a joyo gift of open-armed acceptance. A Hallmark sequel, The Christmas Hoe 2: Deck Those Halls rn wh the Mchell fay after their parents, Bill (Treat Williams) and Phylis (Sharon Lawrence), tried to sell the fay hoe The Christmas Hoe—Hallmark’s first movie promently featurg a gay uple. Rng wh fan favore Mo (Alex Newell), Zoey’s gay sikick-turned-star, Zoey’s Extraordary Christmas’ song-and-dance numbers are sure to awaken the seasonal spir.
The film foc on a gay uple lookg to adopt their first child and airs on Sunday, Nov. 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. The Hallmark Channel is ntug s efforts to tell diversified storyl as part of s popular "Countdown to Christmas" this of the work's holiday films featur a gay uple.