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Contents:

• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
• NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM-COM IS THE #3 MOVIE RIGHT NOW
• HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
• 10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
• SEE FIRST-LOOK PHOTOS OF NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE SGLE ALL THE WAY

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

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.

JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER

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. This year you might want to give Love Actually and The Holiday a miss though, and make the yuleti gay wh an LGBT+ Christmas film.

Released 2009, the film follows Gunn, a llege stunt who’s openly gay at school and is headg home – and back to the closet – for Christmas wh his fay. The two gay characters, Brandon and Jake, are fully accepted by their relativ and iends and their sexualy isn’t the ma foc of the storyle, stead foc on their efforts to adopt a child.

NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM-COM IS THE #3 MOVIE RIGHT NOW

The storyle wouldn’t sound out of place a classic heterosexual Hallmark movie, but the wrers clearly said “make gayer”. WATCH NOW9 The Christmas Setupurty of LifetimeThis classic Christmas movie plot wh gay ma characters feels like sippg a hot a. WATCH NOW11 Make the Yuleti Gayurty of TLAWh lots of wks and nods to s own ches, this mpy holiday romp follows them lots of will regnize.

It gets a b dramatic, but Holiday's portrayal is hont, empathetic, and totally NOW14 Red Lodgeurty of AmazonThis 2013 movie is renamed The Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas on Amazon Prime, but 's a great holiday watch by any name. In 2020, Hallmark e QUITE the drama when they promised they would fally create a gay Christmas film for their work – and then “fot” to clu when they announced their listg.

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HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE

Have we fotten all the drama of 2020 and “The Christmas Hoe”, what they promised at the time to be the first gay Christmas Hallmark film? However, I mt give Hallmark some props – at least they’ve acknowledged that ’s their first “Leadg Gay Couple a Hallmark Christmas movie. 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.

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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. Reddor techbear72 noted that, “Dashg December wh Andie MacDowell [has] ma leads that are gay real life, which is nice for reprentatn, too.

MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

Followg a closeted gay llege stunt spendg wter break wh his parents and brgg his boyiend home as a “iend” so he wouldn’t have to spend Christmas alone, Make the Yuleti Gay shows the stggle of both young men as they stggle to e out together.

Reddor evelyngeln feels that, "Unr the Christmas Tree [is a] typil big cy person go to small town but wh a gay/lbian twist.

Reddor Kjwells94 stat, “The Christmas Setup [is] a cute gay Lifetime movie, and the ma characters are actually hbands real life, so they have great chemistry. And although Happit Season was predated by pennt films like Make the Yuleti Gay and holiday flicks wh queer storyl like Let It Snow, never before had an LGBTQ+ narrative been prented on such a grand sle a big-budget Christmas, a year later, Netflix has quickly followed su wh their first gay holiday rom-, Sgle All the Way.

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

It n't be a cince that openly gay actor Le Macfarlane—who has starred a number of h (heterosexual) Hallmark movi like Mistletoe Promise and Christmas Land— was st one of the leadg romantic rol for this film.

10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

” But also, the entire premise of Peter and Nick fallg love purposefully verts the historil trope of gay men verg up their relatnships by llg their partners their “roommat. ” Instead, the two roommat are a space where they're accepted and the whole fay is actually tryg to set them up (while also acknowledgg that some stanc gay men really are jt iends) Sgle All the Way isn't solely tertg bee of s nstctn. It also featur genuely funny moments, like when Nick tells Peter's father that he learned many of his rpentry skills om watchg HGTV and the dad asks if that stands for “Homosexual Gay” televisn, or like when Peter's nt, Sandy (Coolidge), hears he's gog on a date and asks, “Like om Grdr?

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

Meanwhile, would be nice if some of the stars of the film (like Coolidge) were given a ltle more room to all though, Sgle All the Way succeeds what sets out to do, wh a wholome and progrsive tale of gay romance that rv out s own space among a long le of Christmas flicks. 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?

Why You Can’t Miss It: No, this isn’t a queer rom, but havg Hoewiv the tle immediately mak the movie gay.

SEE FIRST-LOOK PHOTOS OF NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE SGLE ALL THE WAY

Sgle All the Way has a faiar plot that you may have seen a lot of other films the past, but the big difference here is that was ma to be gay and f for Christmas. While plenty of different LGBTQ Christmas movi foc on gay relatnships between men, Unr the Christmas Tree foc on a nice lbian uple, as Lifetime’s first attempt at a lbian Christmas movie is actually a pretty good film you might want to tch. This time, however, foc on gay men, as we see Wyatt arrivg home his small town to fd out that his mother is actually planng to sell their ranch.