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Contents:

• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
• HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
• THE 10 BT GAY/LGBTQIA+ CHRISTMAS MOVI OF ALL TIME
• KRISTEN STEWART AND MACKENZIE DAVIS: 'IT'S A GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE. THAT'S A HUGE EXHALE'
• 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
• '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
• ‘SGLE ALL THE WAY’ MAK THE YULETI GAY NETFLIX’S CHEY HOLIDAY ROM
• NETFLIX’S 1ST GAY HOLIDAY ROM- BRGS LGHS — AND JENNIFER COOLIDGE
• GAY CHRISTMAS QUOT & SAYGS

THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN

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!

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-!

HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE

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. Early the ntemporary queer holiday non, 2005’s The Fay Stone, which stars gay in Sarah Jsi Parker as a (shocker) snobby New Yorker spendg the holidays at her boyiend’s fay home, beme a queer h for s B-plot gay uple wh ambns to adopt a baby.

That is, gay and lbian Christmas movi actually center queer people now — same-sex holiday revelers csh and fall love, break up, rega romance, and jt live the same celebratory December existence every heterosexual (or closeted) character has gotten for, well, ever.

Hallmark’s first-ever gay Christmas romance is a sparkly, trope-y film about the virtu of settlg down and startg a fay a glzy world where homophobia don’t exist. Nearby, handsome sgle-gay-father-aspiree Jason (Gee Krissa) studi an adoptn pamphlet his ftively rated mansn while his dotg mom nsol him via phone om her home across the street. Netflix’s first te gay Christmas movie (2019’s Let It Snow has a cute queer-teen subplot) follows plant daddy Peter (Michael Urie) as he heads home to New Hampshire wh his bt iend and pretend boyiend, Nick (Philemon Chambers), to avoid his mom’s (Kathy Najimy) naggg about his perpetual sgle stat.

THE 10 BT GAY/LGBTQIA+ CHRISTMAS MOVI OF ALL TIME

Lifetime’s first gay Christmas movie is a love story between (surprise!) two cis, whe, pretty f men (who are hbands real life!), but still has s mers.

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).

There have been more mastream gay holiday roms released 2020 than every other year rerd pop culture history bed. “I thk when they said make the Yuleti gay, they meant , ” said Jonathan Bent, one half of the gay uple at the heart of Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe.

KRISTEN STEWART AND MACKENZIE DAVIS: 'IT'S A GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE. THAT'S A HUGE EXHALE'

By featurg a married gay uple ont and center (Brad Harr plays Bent’s onscreen spoe), the film is a major step forward for the work. '” The works—Hallmark, Lifetime, Paramount—fally donned their gay apparel, jtifyg s of passn for this historilly heteronormative holiday. Bee, honey, the gays have always been here for Christmas—even if Christmas hasn’t always been here for .

“It’s so classic, so typil that the queer muni have often loved a lot of the stutns that have not necsarily loved back, ” said Ben Lewis, the other half of The Christmas Setup’s gay power uple, sharg a sentiment echoed by pretty much everyone else terviewed. And so I thk for gay men, I thk even for Christmas enthiasts, I thk we’re chasg after that childhood fort and safety that maybe we missed at that time.

Victor Garber—a hero to a generatn of gay people thanks to his work on Broadway, Tanic, Alias, Legends of Tomorrow, and jt beg Victor Garber—played straight Happit Season as closeted Harper Caldwell’s uptight polician father. I remember meetg a lot of gay kids when I was growg up who weren’t so happy about Christmas and, not unlike Happit Season, would have to go home and pretend [to be straight]. “Your hoe be this other thg for this season, ” said Lee, touchg upon many gay men’s reason for the season.

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

That seri—Holiday Home Makeover—serv a different purpose 2020’s avalanche of gay ntent. That show is hosted by an out gay man who sually refers to his partner ont of the straight fai he’s been tasked to make merry.

Seeg a gay man openly talk his your same-sex partner at Christmas around strangers? Even if gay dienc haven’t seen leral gay characters on screen, we still have our touchston.

Benjam Bradley lov Christmas Connecticut for gay in Barbara Stanwyck, and Na Wt returns to Whe Christmas every year thanks to the looks and stunts of Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney. BenDeLaCreme realized as an adult that Christmas at Pee-wee’s Playhoe is “the gayt thg, ” part bee “Miss Yvonne is the bt Christmas drag queen anyone uld ever hope for.

'LIKE A GAY DREAM E TE': NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY HOLIDAY ROM- 'SGLE ALL THE WAY' RELISH JOY

Frank Oz, for example, is not a gay man, but somehow created Miss Piggy, who is the most inic, most nonil ‘gay’ character.

” While thkg aloud, Lewis realized why so many Christmas specials seem so low-key gay.

Particularly wh stop motn — to put that amount of pastakg tail, the amount of hand glterg that mt have gone to the makg of any one of those movi, is textbook gay. “I thk [Happit Season is] groundbreakg bee ’s an hont-to-god holiday-themed rom that is for queer people, by queer people, ” said Jkx Monsoon of Happit Season, Hulu’s star-studd, major stud gay holiday rom starrg Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis.

SGLE ALL THE WAY REVIEW – NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM

That may be why he didn’t ially nsir makg Dashg December a gay romance—and then leapt at the chance to make this particular dream e te (a dream starrg out actors starrg Peter Porte and Juan Pablo Di Pace). ” This simple tweak opened up the entire story for Helgren, turng what was jt a uple sentenc of plot to a full-fledged screenplay that speaks to not only the holiday season, but to the specific experience of beg gay a small, ral muny. By stg gay actors, the performers felt embolned to put their own experienc to their characters.

The scene that mattered the most to Bent, and every sgle queer person watchg The Christmas Hoe at home, was Brandon and Jake’s kiss—y, a gay kiss on Hallmark. Ben Lewis felt pelled to make sure that his character’s emotnal arc Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup would ronate wh gay dienc.

And after all that very merry reprentatn last year, we are eager to don our gay apparel and watch what 2021’s holiday season got for . Why You Can’t Miss It: This movie puts a gay twist on the classic fake-relatnship-for-the-holidays plot, adds a love triangle angle, and brgs Kathy Najimy and Jennifer Coolidge together?

‘SGLE ALL THE WAY’ MAK THE YULETI GAY NETFLIX’S CHEY HOLIDAY ROM

This movie was created a North Pole lab specifilly for all of the holiday gays. Why You Can’t Miss It: No, this isn’t a queer rom, but havg Hoewiv the tle immediately mak the movie gay.

Why You Can’t Miss It: Remember The Christmas Hoe, one of last year’s big gay movi?

NETFLIX’S 1ST GAY HOLIDAY ROM- BRGS LGHS — AND JENNIFER COOLIDGE

Dec 11 (starrg Mean Girls' Jonathan Bent and Gee Krissa, 's the work's first-ever holiday rom- wh a same-sex uple ont and center), now is a great time to round up the all-time bt gay/LGBTQIA+ Christmas movi ever this list, all feature films that heavily feature Christmas and LGBTQIA+ characters are fair game. Related: See Hallmark's Christmas Movie Lp for This YearPhilemon Chambers and Michael Urie the Christmas movie "Sgle All the Way" on NetflixNetflixSgle All the Way (2021)Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Hoc Poc' Kathy Najimy and LGBTQ in Jennifer Coolidge (h off her bt performance ever, The Whe Lot) star Netflix's exclive high-profile rom- about gay bt iends who disver feelgs over the holiday season, as one pos as the other's boyiend.

Related: The Bt Christmas Episos of Your Favore TV ShowsThe Christmas Setup (2020)Ben Lewis, Blake Lee and gay in Fran Drcher star the Lifetime origal movie The Christmas Setup, about a New York attorney who llis wh his high school csh on a holiday vis back home. Happit Season may be one of the first mastream LGBTQ+ Christmas movi, but ’s not the only Happit Season, there were a few LGBTQ+ films set around the holidays that featured gay or bisexual characters as the ma protagonist or one of the necsary supportg characters. 2020 pecially began to build upward momentum when many works and streamg servic opened up the world of Christmas movi to clu more diverse stori, pecially those volvg same-sex upl or gay characters.

(Image cred: TLA Releasg)Make The Yuleti Gay (2009) Degrassi: The Next Generatn star Adamo Ruggiero stars alongsi Keh Jordan Make the Yuleti Gay. Olaf then giv Nathan a surprise by rmg him that his fay don’t know that he’s the Yuleti Gay is one of those edi wh a lot of wks and nods to s own jok.

GAY CHRISTMAS QUOT & SAYGS

Dpe Olaf’s parents beg very quirky (wh nam Anya and Sven – y I thk they may have a se agast Frozen too), he still worri that they may reject him if he reveals that he’s gay.

Make the Yuleti Gay is available to rent or buy on your favore VOD Make the Yuleti Gay on Amazon Prime. (Image cred: Cir 87 Films)The Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas/Red Lodge (2013) Origally this film was entled Red Lodge, but on Amazon Prime, ’s lled The Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas.

This leads to an awkward Christmas wh Jordan’s Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas is a film that feels thentic. The movie also has an appearance by Stephnie Weir as a “psychic” that’s the highlight of the film bee ’s jt so The Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas on Amazon.