After a public outcry last year when pulled an ad featurg a same-sex weddg, Hallmark Channel is back wh s first holiday movie featurg a gay uple.
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- HALLMARK REVEALS CHRISTMAS MOVIE DETAILS — INCLUDG RETURNG STARS & STORYLE ABOUT GAY COUPLE
- FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
- ‘CHRISTMAS SETUP’ WRER ON ‘HUGE RPONSIBILY’ OF BRGG GAY EXPERIENCE TO LIFETIME’S HOLIDAY SLATE
HALLMARK REVEALS CHRISTMAS MOVIE DETAILS — INCLUDG RETURNG STARS & STORYLE ABOUT GAY COUPLE
The out gay stars of some of 2021's biggt Christmas movi expla why this year is the happit season for diversy. * christmas she wrote gay couple *
This year, the works troduce their most diverse lp ever, featurg their first film wh a story le about a gay uple, starrg Hallmark staple, Jonathan Bent. This year’s movi reflect our most diverse reprentatn of talent, narrativ, and fai, cludg The Christmas Hoe, featurg a storyle about a gay uple lookg to adopt their first child, ” EVP of Programmg Michelle Viry said a statement on Wednday.
And while we're exced for those perennial favor' latt projects, what we're most thrilled wh is that the new 40-movie slate is Hallmark's most diverse and clive ever, cludg the work's first lead gay uple tryg to adopt a child The Christmas Hoe, starrg Mean Girls' Jonathan Bent, and Holly Robson Peete and Riya Bernard fally take the lead the fourth release the Christmas Evergreen anchise.
This year's movi reflect our most diverse reprentatn of talent, narrativ, and fai, cludg The Christmas Hoe featurg a storyle about a gay uple lookg to adopt their first child, and starrg Jonathan Bent an ensemble st, " Michelle Viry, EVP, Programmg, said a statement.
FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
However, ’s a good first step that there are even enough movi for me to create this list of Hallmark movi wh gay characters. Most gay characters and upl the movi are whe and male. Let’s be clear, as of the start of 2021, no Hallmark movie has featured gay characters as leads.
No matter what official Hallmark reps say, The Christmas Hoe and Mix Up the Mederranean do not feature gay leads. While I tly enjoyed The Christmas Hoe and loved seeg the happily married gay uple, they played send-fiddle to the ma straight uple’s romantic storyle.
It jt so happens that Jeremy Jordan, who is playg that straight man is also playg his gay tw. This do not qualify as a gay lead character, and dog the bare mimum isn’t enarg Hallmark to anyone. The only memorable thg about this movie was one of the only tim a Hallmark character has said “I am gay.
‘CHRISTMAS SETUP’ WRER ON ‘HUGE RPONSIBILY’ OF BRGG GAY EXPERIENCE TO LIFETIME’S HOLIDAY SLATE
Y, back 2012, Hallmark premiered a Christmas movie which the sister proclaimed she was gay.
At first, I thought was jt a way to keep a man om htg on her, but an earlier scene shows that she actually is gay. It also had the most subtle ht of a gay uple I have ever seen on TV. This movie also marks the first time a gay uple has shared an on-screen kiss on any Hallmark work.