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Contents:
- THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
- MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
- LIFETIME STS REAL-LIFE MARRIED GAY UPLE S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE
- THE LIFETIME GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE TOTALLY BROKE ME—SO, YUP, IT WORKED
- TV’S GAY CHRISTMAS MOVI ARE AS BENIGN, CHARMG AND CLICHE AS WE ALWAYS HOPED THEY’D BE
- HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
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For Lifetime, which last year had “The Christmas Setup, ” the channel’s first-ever movie starrg gay leads, the move was a big one: the premiere of “Unr the Christmas Tree, ” s first movie featurg lbians as the uple at the center of a holiday romance.
Meanwhile, Hallmark ma a smaller step by settg “The Christmas Hoe 2: Deck Those Halls, ” a sequel to 2020’s “The Christmas Hoe, ” which featured Jonathan Bent and Brad Harr as a gay uple lookg to adopt.
MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
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LIFETIME STS REAL-LIFE MARRIED GAY UPLE S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE
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.
THE LIFETIME GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE TOTALLY BROKE ME—SO, YUP, IT WORKED
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.
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TV’S GAY CHRISTMAS MOVI ARE AS BENIGN, CHARMG AND CLICHE AS WE ALWAYS HOPED THEY’D BE
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HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
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