Hallmark Revers Decisn After Removg Gay Weddg Commercial - TV Gui

Contents:

• HALLMARK CHANNEL’S LATT LGBTQ MISTAKE IS WHY WE NEED A GAY HALLMARK MOVIE
• HALLMARK CHANNEL APOLOGIZ FOR PULLG GAY-THEMED WEDDG AD
• THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT
• HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
• UNR PRSURE, HALLMARK CHANNEL PULLS GAY WEDDG ADS

HALLMARK CHANNEL’S LATT LGBTQ MISTAKE IS WHY WE NEED A GAY HALLMARK MOVIE

The Hallmark Channel apologized for removg gay-themed mercials om rotatn as backlash agast the cisn grew over the weekend. The statements, acrdg to the One Milln Moms mpaign tled, “Hallmark Is Loud and Proud About Its Lead Gay Characters, ” is what prompted the group’s ll to actn.

Hallmark then removed the ad om their work, and dug themselv to a ep homophobic hole. Pattg themselv on the back for this homophobic feat are One Milln Moms, who received over 31, 000 signatur their petn to have those LGBTQ ads removed.

HALLMARK CHANNEL APOLOGIZ FOR PULLG GAY-THEMED WEDDG AD

By the weekend, many had ught on to the blatant Twter got wd of Hallmark's blatant homophobia, they began soundg off on their own. By midday Sunday, #boytthallmark and #homophobichallmark were trendg all over the se. " Out gay printial ndidate and Indiana major Pete Buttigieg tweeted that "fai are built on love — no matter what they look like" and lled for a stop at Hallmark "censorg difference.

THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT

In September 2020, Hallmark announced that Mean Girls star and out actor Jonathan Bent would headle the work’s first holiday film wh a gay uple lead rol. Fortunately, that failure to reprent queer upl and fai appeared to be g to an end when the CEO of Crown Media Fay Networks, the Hallmark Channel’s parent pany, told The Hollywood Reporter November they are "open" to any type of movie, cludg wh gay leadg was a blsg to honor God at work:Chick-fil-A once spired me to live out my fah the workplace.

There are more than half a ln same-sex married upl the Uned Stat, now that gay marriage is legal every state the cintally, before the Zola ads were pulled, the advocy group One Milln Moms, which is a part of the religly nservative Amerin Fay Associatn and f part of s missn as the “fight agast cency, ” hosted a petn on s se that urged Hallmark to “rensir airg mercials wh same-sex upl, and please do not add LGBT movi to the Hallmark Channel.

)Wa, wa — there’s a gay agenda lurkg wh weddg planng ads?

HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE

Ellen DeGener and Sandra Bernhard, who played an openly bisexual character on “Roseann, ” also weighed wh Bernhard tweetg: "All the groovy gay ladi i know won't be watchg your Christmas schlock. ”The group — whose parent anizatn, Amerin Fay Associatn, has been named as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for s work “batg the homosexual agenda” — quoted remarks om viewers who said that they were “fed up wh havg the gay agenda crammed down our throats” while watchg a movie wh their dghters. “Please remove this and any other gay, lbian, bisexual, or anythg else is lled om your channels.

“One Milln Moms is askg Hallmark to stay te to s fay iendly roots that so many fai have grown to love, and to keep sex and sexual ntent – cludg the promotn of homosexualy – out of s programmg.

The upg Halloween season may be “Gay Christmas” to many queer people, but there’s certaly a factn of the muny for whom Mariah Carey’s favore holiday certaly holds a ep meang.

UNR PRSURE, HALLMARK CHANNEL PULLS GAY WEDDG ADS

Bent, who is an out gay actor, posted to Instagram to share the excg news on Friday. And yet, 2017, when one viewer asked Hallmark why there were no gay upl any of their hundreds of Christmas roms, a reprentative claimed that there were no “forced valu” associated wh the work, and that they were not “issu-oriented. This year, the channel cid to diversify s sts by featurg s first openly gay lead uple.