'The Christmas Hoe': Insi first gay Hallmark holiday movie - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• BALLAD OF A FLAMBOYANTLY GAY DEAD FET
• REVIEW: ‘A NEW YORK CHRISTMAS WEDDG’ HAS NFG PLOT, BUT GAY ENOUGH TO SATISFY VIEWERS
• FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
• BETTER THAN BTI: WHY GAY HOLIDAY FILMS MATTER
• GAY WEDDGS NEW YORK CY--SOME OF THE HAPPIT COUPL YOU'LL EVER SEE (AND SOME AMAZING WEDDG DRS TOO)

BALLAD OF A FLAMBOYANTLY GAY DEAD FET

From Hallmark to Hulu, LGBTQ films are fally gettg a seat at the proverbial holiday table month, Hallmark ma history wh “The Christmas Hoe, ” s first holiday movie wh a gay lead uple.

”Those behd the film also hope serv to honor the memory of openly gay actor Chris Trodale, who played a weddg sger the film and is bt known as a member of the former boy band Dream Street. Ballad of a Flamboyantly Gay Dead Fet. Sce Clea DuVall’s gay Christmas rom-, Happit Season, buted on Hulu last month, has been the subject of a roilg bate among queer women.

REVIEW: ‘A NEW YORK CHRISTMAS WEDDG’ HAS NFG PLOT, BUT GAY ENOUGH TO SATISFY VIEWERS

Was for DuVall to serve gays a narrative of trma disguised as a rom-? A New York Christmas Weddg was so lackg any wisp of queer realy or love that don’t even qualify for my extra-pots-for-gay-stuff program.

Gabby begs the prit to flout the Catholic Church and marry her and Jennifer, bee “the Supreme Court led” and Pope Francis is kr toward gays than his precsors. (For all of s waylaid them, this movie is sudnly about homophobia fah muni too.

But the next day, at the parish Christmas service, he giv a big speech about how Catholics need to stop beg homophobic to prevent more gay Catholic suicis.

FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’

The prit says this is a big al and some kd of first—but real life, the Catholic Church don’t bar gay people om munn. It do require that people nfs their ss before munn, and ems gay sex a s, so I gus if any of the queer people who were non-nsensually summoned to the altar had had gay sex and not nfsed to a prit yet, the munn-givg would have ntravened Catholic teachg, makg some kd of history-makg moment for Father Big?

But ’s bizarre that the film mak such a fs over gay Catholics takg munn, which happens every Sunday, when the prit then proceeds to perform a surprise weddg ceremony for Jennifer and Gabby, which would never happen a ln years. And also beme flamboyantly gay, as a ad fet heaven? The now-adult ghost of a ad gay fet, the flh.

The agg church receptnist, who sually reveals that she is also gay (why not?

BETTER THAN BTI: WHY GAY HOLIDAY FILMS MATTER

), tells Jennifer and David that Father Big was fired for facilatg secret gay weddgs, and that Gabby died by apparent suici after her stillbirth at a home for pregnant teens. ” This brave now-adult ghost of a ad gay fet is a worthy (and long overdue! ) role mol for now-adult ghosts of ad gay fet everywhere, who will fally get to see themselv reprented onscreen.

But hang ornaments they do, and one of those ornaments is a figure of Gabby’s now-adult ad gay fet, who will never actually exist bee Gabby end up cidg not to have procreative sex that day. Gabby says havg sex wh Vnie was how she found out she was gay—one of the stalt trop of queer storytellg—so when Jennifer go back time and prevents Gabby om havg sex wh Vnie, don’t she also keep Gabby om that moment of self-realizatn?

GAY WEDDGS NEW YORK CY--SOME OF THE HAPPIT COUPL YOU'LL EVER SEE (AND SOME AMAZING WEDDG DRS TOO)

Like the central uple Happit Season, the two women seem miserable: They spend most of their time together fightg over their 20-year-old nflict, misunrstandg each other bee one has been dropped to their timele unawar, and nontg homophobic parents, neighbors, and fah tradns.

But why should she have to make the now-adult ghost of a ad gay fet bend the l of space and time—and elimate himself the procs!