LGBTQ Films: 10 merry and gay holiday movi to add to your wish list

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.

9 GAY-THEMED HOLIDAY MOVI

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

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

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! 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-!

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

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.

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

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! 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.