Sgle All the Way: First look at Netflix's first gay Christmas movie |

Contents:

• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• SGLE ALL THE WAY REVIEW – NETFLIX’S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS ROM
• 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
• 10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

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.

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.

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

Lifetime’s first gay Christmas movie is a love story between (surprise!

The Bt Queer Holiday Movi to Make the Yuleti Gay. 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.

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

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. ” 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. 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.

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

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!

10 QUEER CHRISTMAS MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

A flurry of recent queer Christmas tl is addg some alternativ to the tradnal holiday picks, om Unr the Christmas Tree—Lifetime’s first lbian romance—to Sgle All The Way—Netflix’s first Christmas film foced on a gay romance.

MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

Gay wboys galore, and a lot more optimistic than Brokeback Mounta, Dashg December’s unrlyg worry of losg the ranch be a backdrop to the romance that ign between the two stablehands. Netflix’s first Christmas film foced on a gay romance, Sgle All The Way, bundl up the tried and tted rom- formula and re-wraps some morn wrappg paper to liver a joyo gift of open-armed acceptance.

A Hallmark sequel, The Christmas Hoe 2: Deck Those Halls rn wh the Mchell fay after their parents, Bill (Treat Williams) and Phylis (Sharon Lawrence), tried to sell the fay hoe The Christmas Hoe—Hallmark’s first movie promently featurg a gay uple.

Rng wh fan favore Mo (Alex Newell), Zoey’s gay sikick-turned-star, Zoey’s Extraordary Christmas’ song-and-dance numbers are sure to awaken the seasonal spir. 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.