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- SEE FIRST-LOOK PHOTOS OF NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE SGLE ALL THE WAY
- HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF
- THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
- FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
- NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM-COM IS THE #3 MOVIE RIGHT NOW
SEE FIRST-LOOK PHOTOS OF NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE SGLE ALL THE WAY
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 . * first gay christmas movie *
See first-look photos of Netflix's first gay Christmas movie Sgle All the Way "You n expect pageantry, we, hunky Santas, a ltle b of ceptn, a whole lotta do-goodg, and Jennifer Coolidge, " says star Michael Urie. The streamer that ntu to expand to the Christmas movie space will gift you wh the rom- Sgle All the Way, which featur (for the first time) a gay romance at s center, wh two romantic prospects for the lead character. "My parents are played by Barry Bostwick and Kathy Najimy — a batn that scientists agree n only produce sons who are gay and love Christmas.
"Peter is a self scribed plant-gay — he has a fern named Judh — trapped a social media job he don't love and is always sgle when he go home for the holidays.
It's the gayt thg to happen to Christmas sce Mariah! Saskatchewan-born actor Gee Krissa is helpg make the yuleti a ltle extra gay this 's one of the stars of the new Hallmark Channel movie The Holiday Ster, which marks the first time ever that the work has had a same-sex uple at the centre of one of their films.
HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF
Krissa also popped by the set of our vio terview seri Here & Queer to talk about beg a part of Hallmark's historic first foray to sayg 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.
THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
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.
A hyperfaiar, perhaps way-too-overdone heteronormative plot flipped to be gay? 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.
Lifetime’s first gay Christmas movie is a love story between (surprise!
FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
The Bt Queer Holiday Movi to Make the Yuleti Gay. 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.
)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. 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.
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. The script treats mon stereotyp humoroly, like wh Peter's obssn wh plants or referenc to “Instagays. ” 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.
NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM-COM IS THE #3 MOVIE RIGHT NOW
” 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? 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.