Why Halloween is 'gay Christmas' to many LGBTQ Amerins

Contents:

• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
• GAY CHRISTMAS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• GAY CHRISTMAS QUOT & SAYGS
• 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
• 25 CHRISTMAS SONGS ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND (INTELLIGENT) STRAIGHT PEOPLE KNOW ARE TLY GAY BOPS
• A SUPER GAY CHRISTMAS
• GAY CHRISTMAS CARDS
• MERRY CHRISTMAS GAY
• GAY CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

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

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).

There have been more mastream gay holiday roms released 2020 than every other year rerd pop culture history bed.

“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 BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

'” 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.

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.

WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS

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? Even if gay dienc haven’t seen leral gay characters on screen, we still have our touchston. 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.

GAY CHRISTMAS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

” While thkg aloud, Lewis realized why so many Christmas specials seem so low-key gay.

GAY CHRISTMAS QUOT & SAYGS

“There is somethg very gay about puppetry and stop motn animatn, jt general. 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.

“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. 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). ” 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.

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

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.

Ben Lewis felt pelled to make sure that his character’s emotnal arc Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup would ronate wh gay dienc. 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.

25 CHRISTMAS SONGS ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND (INTELLIGENT) STRAIGHT PEOPLE KNOW ARE TLY GAY BOPS

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?

A SUPER GAY CHRISTMAS

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.

Brad Harr and Jonathan Bent played Hallmark Channel's first gay married uple the 2020 holiday movie The Christmas Hoe. "It's so tertg: I went om hidg who I was to the world and kissg Ldsay Lohan Mean Girls to starrg as part of the first gay uple a Christmas movie for the biggt Christmas work the world, " says the actor, who me out publicly 2017.

2, Netflix dropped Sgle All the Way, starrg Michael Urie and Philemon Chambers — the first out gay Black actor to headle a holiday movie — as Los Angel-based bt iends who disver that they may be somethg more durg a Christmas vis to Urie's small-town home. "And I thk what’s so great about this year is that the aren't stori about beg gay — they are stori about love, and that's somethg we n all intify wh.

GAY CHRISTMAS CARDS

"I'm extremely proud that the problems the characters have [are] the same problems that a straight person might have, " Urie, who sred his breakthrough screen role as Vansa Williams's out gay assistant on Ugly Betty, tells Yahoo Entertament. "They are not alg wh g out wo; they are not alg wh feelgs of shame; and they are not alg wh homophobic fai. "Philemon Chambers and Michael Urie star Netflix's first gay-themed holiday movie Sgle All the Way.

(Photo: Philippe Bosse/Netflix)Chambers agre that ntemporary LGBTQ stori — holiday-related or otherwise — have evolved beyond the kds of g-out stori that played outsized rol movi like The Birdge and even Happit Season, where gay upl feel pelled to hi their inti om their loved on. "If they thk gay people don't love Christmas, then they're livg unr some kd of heterosexual rock.

MERRY CHRISTMAS GAY

If you don't like watchg gay people love Christmas, then you n go fd one of the lerally thoands of other straight Christmas movi.

As we take over, Christmas movi will be herently gay, and the on about straight people will have to be scribed as straight Christmas movi! This year you might want to give Love Actually and The Holiday a miss though, and make the yuleti gay wh an LGBT+ Christmas film.

The film stars Michael Urie as Peter, a gay man who liv Los Angel wh his bt iend Nick.

GAY CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS

Released 2009, the film follows Gunn, a llege stunt who’s openly gay at school and is headg home – and back to the closet – for Christmas wh his fay. The two gay characters, Brandon and Jake, are fully accepted by their relativ and iends and their sexualy isn’t the ma foc of the storyle, stead foc on their efforts to adopt a child. The storyle wouldn’t sound out of place a classic heterosexual Hallmark movie, but the wrers clearly said “make gayer”.

MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

"Merrie cherryAn extravaganza of the supernatural, all thgs sweet and larger-than-life stum, many LGBTQ Amerins like Roberts hail Halloween as "gay Christmas. " But the ntemporary excement around the supernatural holiday has a long history wh the LGBTQ morn phrase "gay Christmas" actually stems om an earlier queer nickname for the holiday, "bch Christmas, " acrdg to Marc Ste, a profsor of history at San Francis State Universy, and thor of "Cy of Sisterly and Brotherly Lov. "Durg the 1950s and '60s, Philalphia's LGBTQ muny celebrated "bch Christmas" by drsg up drag and partyg the cy's gay bars, Ste said.

"Followg the wave of LGBTQ activism and visibily sparked by the 1969 Stonewall rts, more formal versns of queer Halloween celebratns began poppg up "gayborhoods" around the untry. " As a gay man, he scribed Halloween as one of the only tim a year growg up when he was not "ostracized or punished or cricized for havg the flamboyant, creative tennci. 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.

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.