From ‘Happit Season’ and ‘Carol’ to Netflix’s ‘Sgle All the Way’ and Lifetime’s ‘Unr the Christmas Tree,’ the are the bt gay and lbian Christmas movi. Holiday-romance movi aren’t jt for the straights, and the LGBTQ films prove .
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- JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
- HALLMARK JOS 21ST CENTURY WH FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS FILM – AND, Y, STARS JONATHAN BENT
- 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
- HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF
- MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
- ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR GAY CHRISTMAS MOVI
- THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
- THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT
JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR 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). 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. Startg 2020, Christmas was for the gays.
HALLMARK JOS 21ST CENTURY WH FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS FILM – AND, Y, STARS JONATHAN BENT
RELATED | 23 Christmas Songs by LGBTQ+ Artists to Make the Yuleti Gay. In the movie, which buts Sunday, Bent plays Sam, a gay guy whose personal life suffers at the st of his profsnal life — work over marriage.
12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
'" Add to the formula the actor's love of the '80s classic Uncle Buck starrg John Candy, pl his sire to see a movie that was "really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022. " And that turned to me and my love for Uncle Buck, the movie wh John Candy that I grew up on, and I kd of put those ias together and I said, "What if Uncle Buck was gay?
Sam is beg really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022 and what that experience is. As gay men, we're navigatg what our liv look like wh kids, or gettg married, or whout kids, and 's not black or whe — there's so many different avenu to startg a fay and havg a chosen fay. Somethg I found so funny is how Sam realiz that Jason is gay — when Jason ments on Sam's sho.
HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF
Like, "Oh wow, he is gay.
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.
MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
Bent posted on Instagram to share his excement for the film, sayg “will make history as the first leadg gay uple a Hallmark Christmas move ever”.
The announcement of this trailblazg productn follows gay Twter llg out for Hallmark Channel to clu LGBTQ+ characters s films 2019. In that same year, The Wrap reported that, of the channel’s 40 new ftive films, not one featured a gay lead.
‘TIS THE SEASON FOR GAY CHRISTMAS MOVI
TV holiday rom-s have bee a ttage dtry over the last 20 years, so some may be surprised ’s taken this long for Hallmark and Lifetime to send jad gay urban home for Christmas to fd the love of their mastream holiday movi are largely aimed at straight women, wh predictable plots and sackfuls of stereotyp about relatnships, genr rol, fay and “the te meang of Christmas.
Below, we celebrate a dozen movi that make the yuleti jt a ltle b gayer. In a si plot, Everett’s gay af brother reveals that he and his partner are planng to “The Fay Stone” don’t revent the holiday movie, do shake up nventns about expectatns when to romance.
THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
'Make the Yuleti Gay' (2009)College stunt Gunn (Keh Jordan) is totally out at school, but he hasn’t gotten around to tellg his Midwtern fay that he’s gay and that his “roommate, ” Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero of "Degrassi"), is actually his boyiend. "Williams plays Ebony Scrooge, a succsful but nasty R&B sger who mends her ways wh the help of three spectral visors, cludg gay fave Kathy Griff as the Ghost of Christmas Past. 'Some of My Bt Friends Are…' (1971)You might have some trouble fdg this low-budget holiday gem om wrer-director Mervyn Nelson, but ’ll be worth the effort: A group of regulars gather at the Blue Jay, a Greenwich Village gay bar, on Christmas Eve Rue McClanahan, Fannie Flagg, trans pneer Candy Darlg and Gary Sanrs of “WKRP Ccnati, ” “Some of My Bt Friends Are…” is an astonishgly ndid time psule of the Stonewall era that remds that gays have been fg chosen fai for generatns.
THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT
No, not Rudolph — I’m referrg to Hermey, the misf elf who wants to qu Santa’s workshop to be a gay subtext this stop-motn classic om Rank/Bass is pretty hard to miss — even before bearish lumberjack Yon Corneli tak Rudolph and Hermey to the Island of Misf Toys. As Tommy, the acerbic gay black sheep of the Larson fay who nohels gets a love tert (of sorts).
Who needs Bg Crosby and Rosemary Clooney when you’ve got a morn tearjerker touchg on gay relatnships, HIV/AIDS, substance abe, gentrifitn and more — all the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve?