Lifetime sts real-life married gay uple s first LGBTQ holiday movie

Contents:

• HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
• FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
• 9 GAY-THEMED HOLIDAY MOVI
• LIFETIME STS REAL-LIFE MARRIED GAY UPLE S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE
• LGBTQ FILMS: 10 MERRY AND GAY HOLIDAY MOVI TO ADD TO YOUR WISH LIST
• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE

You’ll also fd that the majory of the are very gay male-oriented. A typil but fun fay romp, The Fay Stone featur a sendary story volvg a gay member of the fay who, along wh his partner, is nsirg adoptg a child.

It jt wouldn’t be the holidays whout a versn of A Christmas Carol — and this one tak a gay twist, tellg the story of as a miserly piano bar owner who is vised by the ual host of spirs to gui him to altism. Its -wrer, Richard Knight Jr., was spired by The Fay Stone, above, to make a gay-centric holiday film — and this is .

Make the Yuleti Gay (2009). About as close as we seem to have to a lbian holiday film, Carol is a perd drama set around Christmas 1952, where two women – played by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara — fall love wh a backdrop of mid-century homophobia. Diane Keaton mak her send appearance on the list, but aga fds herself outsi of the gay storyle of a holiday-foced fay edy.

FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’

A closeted police officer who is by tryg to help all the other characters out and Marisa Tomei as a “life ach” who helps the officer foc on his own needs as a gay man.

This year, the channel cid to diversify s sts by featurg s first openly gay lead uple. 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.

9 GAY-THEMED HOLIDAY MOVI

”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 new, LGBTQ+ holiday films and seri are gog to make the yuleti hella gay this holiday season!

Drama and secrets get exposed this brand new, queer-clive fay saga that featur a gay uple played by Broadway actor/photographer Anthony Chatmon II and out mol Derek Chadwick! Nonbary actor Hugh Sheridan is takg on their first gay role, playg the happily married David alongsi hubby (played by Nicholas Brown) the Asie Christmas rom- Christmas on the Farm!

LIFETIME STS REAL-LIFE MARRIED GAY UPLE S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE

Directed by Tony wner Michael Mayer and starrg a stacked st that clus Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Le MacFarlane, Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Robertson, and edy screen legends Jennifer Coolidge and Kathy Najimy, Sgle All the Way is Netflix's highly-anticipated, first gay holiday film and tells the story of a gay man named Peter who is "sperate to avoid his fay's judgment about his perpetual sgle stat, " acrdg to the film's official (and relatable AF) scriptn.

Emmy-wng TV in and Drag Race legend RuPl is gettg on all of the gay cheer this year by releasg her very own special holiday special for VH1, aptly entled The Bch Who Stole Christmas! Tellg the story of the Diaz fay, the seri featur a gay uple, as well as one of the first transgenr love stori to ever be featured a holiday rom-! Part of the Hallmark Channel's imprsive and packed slate of 41 brand-new Christmas movi beg released this holiday season, the upg sequel to last year's gay-clive The Christmas Hoe, tentatively entled Deck Those Halls, is rng the origal st for another round of queer holiday cheer, cludg Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent and Brad Harr, the two actors who played the loveable hband-hband duo the first movie.

Hallmark’s first Christmas romance movie starrg a gay uple is set to warm our hearts this holiday season The Holiday Ster.

LGBTQ FILMS: 10 MERRY AND GAY HOLIDAY MOVI TO ADD TO YOUR WISH LIST

This year, Hallmark is set to release 40 new holiday movi to their channel, and among those is a very special first for the work – a gay Christmas rom-! When you’re a fan of Hallmark movi, seeg a gay uple a beloved holiday medium is a dream e te. Wh Hallmark liverg s first-ever gay Christmas rom- this season, we’re exced to learn more about the history-makg movie The Holiday Ster!

As the first Hallmark film to feature a leadg gay uple, we’re exced to learn more about The Holiday Ster as s release date approach!

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

Actor Jonathan Bent, who prevly featured Mean Girls, Van Wilr: Frhman Year, and as part of Hallmark's first gay uple The Christmas Hoe, will return to the work to star as Sam. Bent and Krissa are out and proud Hollywood actors, makg The Holiday Ster even better for featurg real gay reprentatn.

Wh so many films stg straight actors gay rol, ’s great to see Hallmark’s first lead gay uple beg played by actors who are actually gay! Krissa certaly knows where his dience is and what they enjoy, as do Bent, who have both been outspoken support of Hallmark’s first gay Christmas movie. 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. "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. (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!

For the first time, a Hallmark Christmas movie will feature a gay uple at the heart of one of their upg films, The Holiday Ster. A married uple (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) v their adult children, cludg gay son Brandon (Jonathan Bent) and his partner (Brad Hardner), to stay wh them the weeks leadg up to Christmas to revis the old fay tradn of transformg their childhood home to "The Christmas Hoe" — a procs that means extensively ratg the home for the Christmas holiday for what uld possibly be the last "The Christmas Hoe" has a sequel, 's not nearly as good as the origal.

I sured the web to round up 10 films that are eher totally gay or have proment gay characters. And Peter Neville attempt to mornize the well-worn holiday tale by puttg a gay sp on . —Philalphia Cy PaperMake the Yuleti Gay (2009, 89 m): Gunn is totally at ease wh his sexualy when to everyday life.

But gog home to spend the holidays wh his well-meang Midwtern parents — who have no ia he’s gay — is a ltle different. ): Durg Christmas dner, the holiday to an abpt end when aspirg pater Tdie’s (Melissa Joan Hart) parents beg to fight, her brother announc that he is gay, and her sister says that she has qu Law School and bought a Pilat stud wh her parents’ tun money. ): This one don’t scream Christmas, but the holidays play a special role this story about a gay teen tryg to e to terms wh his sexualy a fay of macho brothers and a bullhead dad.

One of the guts is Meredh, played by Sarah Jsi Parker, which is almost gay enough, but those lookg for the extra dose of homodays will enjoy the si story about gay son and his partner who announce to their fay that they’re ready to Richfield 1981: Fall on Your Kne Christmas Extravaganza (2005, 60 m): Holiday edy show om Mnota’s Mistrs of Mayhem! —IMDB Cool for Christmas (2004, 96 m): Sixteen-year-old Ldsay Dearborn (Brooke Nev) is “too ol for Christmas, ” and wants no part of the fay celebratn beg planned by her two male homosexual parents (Adam Harrgton and Barclay Hope) and her kid sister Alexa (Jolle Ferland). Between her parents (Charl Durng and Anne Bancroft), her sardonic [GAY!