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Contents:

• MERRY CHRISTMAS GAY
• MERRY AND GAY: 8 QUEER MOVI TO WATCH OVER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
• GAY CHRISTMAS CARDS
• GAY CHRISTMAS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• SANTA CLS IS GAY AND FALLS LOVE WH A MAN NAMED HARRY SWEET NORWEGIAN CHRISTMAS AD
• 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
• LGBTQ FILMS: 10 MERRY AND GAY HOLIDAY MOVI TO ADD TO YOUR WISH LIST
• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• GIFS TO MAKE CHRISTMAS GAY(ER)
• 10 QUEER CHRISTMAS SONGS TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY AF
• GAY ASIA: MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI
• XMAS CHEER FOR THE FTIVE QUEER: 5 LGBTQ+ CHRISTMAS FILMS YOU CAN WATCH TODAYFROM 2015'S CAROL TO 2022'S SGLE ALL THE WAY; HERE ARE 5 CHRISTMAS FILMS WH SENSIVE QUEER REPRENTATN. PHELIAN PUBLISHED: 24 DEC 2022, 3:58 PM ISTCEMA4 M READSHARE ON THE QUT DAILY

MERRY CHRISTMAS GAY

The hope, of urse, is that someday won’t feel like a Christmas miracle every time we see a queer person on screen the while we’re on our way to that realy — the spir of Christmas, I tst that this will happen, a few plot pots om now — here are some holiday films featurg queer stori, wh jt the appropriate amount of ches for the Yuleti All the Way (2021) Helmed by Tony-wng director Michael Mayer, Netflix’s first gay holiday movie tells the story of Peter (Michael Urie). — a ol nt, and this stg choice is only the cherry on top of a film that stars three out actors for s gay the Christmas Tree (2021) Lifetime’s first-ever lbian Christmas movie, Unr the Christmas Tree is part of the work’s “It’s a Wonrful Lifetime” lp this year, and tells the story of marketg workaholic Alma Beltran (Elise Bman) and Christmas tree whisperer Charlie Freemont (Tattiawna Jon) the film, Charlie is exced when she fds the perfect tree for the Mae Governor’s Holiday Celebratn. Dashg December (2020) Paramount Network’s Dashg December is to gays as Christmas at the Ranch is to lbians.

MERRY AND GAY: 8 QUEER MOVI TO WATCH OVER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

But bt of all, I thk, is MacDowell’s performance as Deb, who, like some of the other parents the films on this list, jt wants to fd love for her gay kid. Christmas 2020 is the gayt Christmas ever. This holiday season has gifted dienc wh four—y, four—gay Christmas roms: Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe, Hulu’s Happit Season, Lifetime’s The Christmas Set-Up (December 12), and Paramount’s Dashg December (December 13).

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

There have been more mastream gay holiday roms released 2020 than every other year rerd pop culture history bed. Gays didn’t jt startg lovg Christmas this year.

GAY CHRISTMAS CARDS

“I thk when they said make the Yuleti gay, they meant , ” said Jonathan Bent, one half of the gay uple at the heart of Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe.

By featurg a married gay uple ont and center (Brad Harr plays Bent’s onscreen spoe), the film is a major step forward for the work. '” The works—Hallmark, Lifetime, Paramount—fally donned their gay apparel, jtifyg s of passn for this historilly heteronormative holiday. Bee, honey, the gays have always been here for Christmas—even if Christmas hasn’t always been here for .

“It’s so classic, so typil that the queer muni have often loved a lot of the stutns that have not necsarily loved back, ” said Ben Lewis, the other half of The Christmas Setup’s gay power uple, sharg a sentiment echoed by pretty much everyone else terviewed.

GAY CHRISTMAS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

And so I thk for gay men, I thk even for Christmas enthiasts, I thk we’re chasg after that childhood fort and safety that maybe we missed at that time. Victor Garber—a hero to a generatn of gay people thanks to his work on Broadway, Tanic, Alias, Legends of Tomorrow, and jt beg Victor Garber—played straight Happit Season as closeted Harper Caldwell’s uptight polician father.

I remember meetg a lot of gay kids when I was growg up who weren’t so happy about Christmas and, not unlike Happit Season, would have to go home and pretend [to be straight]. “Your hoe be this other thg for this season, ” said Lee, touchg upon many gay men’s reason for the season. That seri—Holiday Home Makeover—serv a different purpose 2020’s avalanche of gay ntent.

SANTA CLS IS GAY AND FALLS LOVE WH A MAN NAMED HARRY SWEET NORWEGIAN CHRISTMAS AD

That show is hosted by an out gay man who sually refers to his partner ont of the straight fai he’s been tasked to make merry.

Seeg a gay man openly talk his your same-sex partner at Christmas around strangers? That’s a transformative notn for a lot of gay people. Even if gay dienc haven’t seen leral gay characters on screen, we still have our touchston.

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

Benjam Bradley lov Christmas Connecticut for gay in Barbara Stanwyck, and Na Wt returns to Whe Christmas every year thanks to the looks and stunts of Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney. BenDeLaCreme realized as an adult that Christmas at Pee-wee’s Playhoe is “the gayt thg, ” part bee “Miss Yvonne is the bt Christmas drag queen anyone uld ever hope for. Frank Oz, for example, is not a gay man, but somehow created Miss Piggy, who is the most inic, most nonil ‘gay’ character.

” While thkg aloud, Lewis realized why so many Christmas specials seem so low-key gay. “There is somethg very gay about puppetry and stop motn animatn, jt general.

LGBTQ FILMS: 10 MERRY AND GAY HOLIDAY MOVI TO ADD TO YOUR WISH LIST

Particularly wh stop motn — to put that amount of pastakg tail, the amount of hand glterg that mt have gone to the makg of any one of those movi, is textbook gay.

“He’s this amazg bchy gay guy! All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Gay Leads. “I thk [Happit Season is] groundbreakg bee ’s an hont-to-god holiday-themed rom that is for queer people, by queer people, ” said Jkx Monsoon of Happit Season, Hulu’s star-studd, major stud gay holiday rom starrg Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis.

Gay creators have been tryg to make history for a mute. That may be why he didn’t ially nsir makg Dashg December a gay romance—and then leapt at the chance to make this particular dream e te (a dream starrg out actors starrg Peter Porte and Juan Pablo Di Pace).

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

” This simple tweak opened up the entire story for Helgren, turng what was jt a uple sentenc of plot to a full-fledged screenplay that speaks to not only the holiday season, but to the specific experience of beg gay a small, ral muny.

GIFS TO MAKE CHRISTMAS GAY(ER)

By stg gay actors, the performers felt embolned to put their own experienc to their characters. The scene that mattered the most to Bent, and every sgle queer person watchg The Christmas Hoe at home, was Brandon and Jake’s kiss—y, a gay kiss on Hallmark. One of our art partment guys who’s gay me up to me and had tears his ey.

Ben Lewis felt pelled to make sure that his character’s emotnal arc Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup would ronate wh gay dienc. May your gays be merry and bright. Lawrence havg no explic moments of gayns or anythg physil beyond a brief shirtls scene, two kiss to the cheek, and the cuttg of hair, is the first film I thk of when I thk of queer men cema.

There’s a tenncy wh movi about gay characters to end tragedy, wh ath beg monplace our stori, ually wh one man beg left to grieve his ceased lover. It n be overwhelmg for art to nont the reali of the fallibily of our liv this homophobic society, pecially historil films where homophobia was even more visible to the naked eye. Back the late 40s, homosexualy wasn’t accepted at all, wh hero of World War II beg forcibly sterlised by the Brish ernment bee of their sexualy.

10 QUEER CHRISTMAS SONGS TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY AF

Lawrence is maybe the only gay tragedy I’ve seen that don’t feel paful, that don’t e a fur ache my soul whenever I reflect on how many of are ad. In spe of the world wantg them gone, spe of an fect disease or a world war, their love and passn existed beyond the homophobic nf of society.

We n’t ny that there was a genoci that was flicted upon ls than 40 years ago – but ’s equally as important to look back on all the people we lost and remember that so many of them got to love and lt and live their liv as gay men, even if the world meant that they were robbed of so many years. The Norwegian Postal Service is celebratg the upg 50th anniversary of the crimalizatn of homosexualy Norway wh their heartwarmg holiday ad.

Posten, the Norwegian Postal Service, is celebratg the upg 50th anniversary of the crimalizatn of homosexualy Norway wh a heartwarmg holiday advertisement. 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.

GAY ASIA: MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE

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.

'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.

MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI

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?

Make the Yuleti gay.

XMAS CHEER FOR THE FTIVE QUEER: 5 LGBTQ+ CHRISTMAS FILMS YOU CAN WATCH TODAYFROM 2015'S CAROL TO 2022'S SGLE ALL THE WAY; HERE ARE 5 CHRISTMAS FILMS WH SENSIVE QUEER REPRENTATN. PHELIAN PUBLISHED: 24 DEC 2022, 3:58 PM ISTCEMA4 M READSHARE ON THE QUT DAILY

Merry Gay Christmas and Happy Holidays!