Jonathan Bent to star Hallmark’s first gay holiday movie

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• HALLMARK RELEAS ITS FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE WH TWO LEADG MEN
• JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
• HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF
• THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT
• OPENLY GAY ACTOR JONATHAN BENT TO STAR HALLMARK’S FIRST LGBTQ-THEMED CHRISTMAS MOVIE

HALLMARK RELEAS ITS FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE WH TWO LEADG MEN

Hallmark has unveiled s first gay Christmas movie wh two male leads and ankly, ’s about time! Now they’re tryg to rectify that wh The Christmas Hoe, a movie that follows a married gay uple travelg home for the holidays as they awa news about the adoptn of their first child.

Jt a few months ago they had a gay weddg one of their movi, and now this. Canadian actor Jake Foy is makg wav for playg the openly gay wboy Tuff McMurray on Hallmark's newt wtern seri, Ri. Dubbed by The Advote's sister publitn Out as the "gay kg of Christmas, " Jonathan Bent has starred some of the Hallmark Channel's most beloved holiday films.

Alberta native Brad Harr is an out actor known pecially for The Christmas Hoe seri, which he and Jonathan Bent played the first married gay uple Hallmark history. The multalented (and proudly out) Ali Liebert has both acted and directed projects for Hallmark, and she helmed the groundbreakg gay Christmas movie The Holiday Ster. " What you might not know is that Bent is openly gay and even starred the first queer-led Hallmark movie, "The Holiday Ster.

JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER

" However, wasn't always this easy for him as a gay actor Hollywood. The charismatic performer stars as Tuff McMurray, a gay wboy Hallmark's "Ri, " which he scrib to Pop Culturalist as an "enrichg" experience. "If we're able to watch Tuff wrtle wh that, would set a lovely, lovely precent for a lot of young people, gay or not.

He was st alongsi Billy Eichner for the 2022 gay romantic edy tled "Bros. Gee Krissa joed Jonathan Bent to star Hallmark's first gay-led feature film, "A Holiday Ster. In the movie, which buts Sunday, Bent plays Sam, a gay guy whose personal life suffers at the st of his profsnal life — work over marriage.

HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF

'" Add to the formula the actor's love of the '80s classic Uncle Buck starrg John Candy, pl his sire to see a movie that was "really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022. " And that turned to me and my love for Uncle Buck, the movie wh John Candy that I grew up on, and I kd of put those ias together and I said, "What if Uncle Buck was gay? Sam is beg really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022 and what that experience is.

As gay men, we're navigatg what our liv look like wh kids, or gettg married, or whout kids, and 's not black or whe — there's so many different avenu to startg a fay and havg a chosen fay.

Somethg I found so funny is how Sam realiz that Jason is gay — when Jason ments on Sam's sho. Like, "Oh wow, he is gay.

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

Saskatchewan-born actor Gee Krissa is helpg make the yuleti a ltle extra gay this 's one of the stars of the new Hallmark Channel movie The Holiday Ster, which marks the first time ever that the work has had a same-sex uple at the centre of one of their films. Krissa also popped by the set of our vio terview seri Here & Queer to talk about beg a part of Hallmark's historic first foray to sayg gay.

The openly gay actor who has appeared a dozen Hallmark movi over the past stars oppose Billy Eichner Bros, theaters Sept. Now wh Bros, a same-sex rom- -wrten by and starrg edian Billy Eichner, 43, the openly gay Macfarlane mak the leap to the big screen, starrg as Eichner's love tert.

They gave me, an openly gay actor, an opportuny to star as always a straight du so that was really ol of them. Bros isn't Macfarlane's first gay-themed rom-, eher.

OPENLY GAY ACTOR JONATHAN BENT TO STAR HALLMARK’S FIRST LGBTQ-THEMED CHRISTMAS MOVIE

A tone reprentatn onscreen, brgg the rnchy R-rated edy of films like “The 40 Year-Old Virg” and “Brismaids, ” to a gay love story wh a wi release om Universal, the film hs theaters Sept. The fact is, I don’t thk stud executiv are sayg, “Get me the gay guy om ‘Brothers and Sisters’ who do all those Hallmark films. Growg up Canadian, we’re often tght to be a member of a pany rather than to be the you know gog that they were lookg to st an openly gay actor that role?

I gus Hallmark has given me a lot of flirtg the st of “Bros” is all LGBTQ and the film is very much about gay life and reprentatn, your director was straight. The heterosexual muny don’t have the same relatnship wh safe-sex practic as gay men have had to bee of HIV/AIDS and now monkeypox. I do remember someone once said to me, “Oh, Superman n’t be gay.