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- 'LIKE A GAY DREAM E TE': NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY HOLIDAY ROM- 'SGLE ALL THE WAY' RELISH JOY
- SGLE ALL THE WAY REVIEW – NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM
- HOW THE FOUL-MOUTHED WEDDG SGER OM OLD SCHOOL END UP NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY HOLIDAY ROM
- "SGLE ALL THE WAY" IS THE CHEERY AND CHEY HOLIDAY ROM-COM THAT GAYS NEVER REALLY HAD BEFORE
'LIKE A GAY DREAM E TE': NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY HOLIDAY ROM- 'SGLE ALL THE WAY' RELISH JOY
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SGLE ALL THE WAY REVIEW – NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM
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(Washgton Post Illtratn; Philippe Bosse/Netflix; iStock) Chey rom-s aren’t ually Robby Bailey’s preferred genre durg the holiday season, but after he watched Netflix’s gay Christmas movie “Sgle All the Way” wh his partner, he was pleasantly characters other movi often seem like ritur, wrten by someone who “met a gay person once, ” Bailey, 37, said. ”Some backlash has followed, remiscent of what Disney has faced om nservativ for cludg gay characters recent movi.
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HOW THE FOUL-MOUTHED WEDDG SGER OM OLD SCHOOL END UP NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY HOLIDAY ROM
Stewart said he ed to hi away his bedroom to watch “Queer as Folk, ” an early-2000s Showtime drama seri that showsed a group of gay iends and was filmed near where Stewart lived. Last year, he found and watched “A Jenks Fay Christmas, ” which clus a lead character who’s gay and Black, like he Mason regniz that many Black movi ter to unrlyg homophobia among Black people, wh gay characters ma palatable for straight dienc. Sometim, that means seeg some gay characters who are overly flamboyant or unrealistic.
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Netflix's first gay holiday romantic edy, "Sgle All the Way" (now streamg), has arrived to lift holiday spirs and change up a tradnally heterosexual, there has been a glut of LGBTQ holiday romance movi as of late – Hulu's "Happit Season" and Hallmark's "The Christmas Hoe" premiered last year, among others – but this one rehgly avoids a g out story and ters to a queer to mentn that the prence of gay in Jennifer Coolidge was "like a gay dream e te, " says star Michael film centers on Peter (Urie) and Nick (Philemon Chambers), bt iends and roommat Los Angel who have always kept their relatnship platonic. "I've never seen that portrayed where there is a gay son and the fay who is heterosexual wants the son to be a relatnship wh another gay man. Why uldn't the same be done for gay stori?
"SGLE ALL THE WAY" IS THE CHEERY AND CHEY HOLIDAY ROM-COM THAT GAYS NEVER REALLY HAD BEFORE
)Netflix approached screenwrer Chad Hodge ("The Darkt Mds, " "Good Behavr") and asked him to wre the streamer's first gay Christmas romantic edy.