The Gayt Christmas Ever: Insi 2020's Big, Queer Holiday Explosn

Contents:

• 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
• MERRY AND GAY: 8 QUEER MOVI TO WATCH OVER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
• GAY CHRISTMAS CARDS
• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

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. Below, we celebrate a dozen movi that make the yuleti jt a ltle b gayer. 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. 'Some of My Bt Friends Are…' (1971)You might have some trouble fdg this low-budget holiday gem om wrer-director Mervyn Nelson, but ’ll be worth the effort: A group of regulars gather at the Blue Jay, a Greenwich Village gay bar, on Christmas Eve Rue McClanahan, Fannie Flagg, trans pneer Candy Darlg and Gary Sanrs of “WKRP Ccnati, ” “Some of My Bt Friends Are…” is an astonishgly ndid time psule of the Stonewall era that remds that gays have been fg chosen fai for generatns.

No, not Rudolph — I’m referrg to Hermey, the misf elf who wants to qu Santa’s workshop to be a gay subtext this stop-motn classic om Rank/Bass is pretty hard to miss — even before bearish lumberjack Yon Corneli tak Rudolph and Hermey to the Island of Misf Toys. As Tommy, the acerbic gay black sheep of the Larson fay who nohels gets a love tert (of sorts). Who needs Bg Crosby and Rosemary Clooney when you’ve got a morn tearjerker touchg on gay relatnships, HIV/AIDS, substance abe, gentrifitn and more — all the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve?

MERRY AND GAY: 8 QUEER MOVI TO WATCH OVER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

The hope, of urse, is that someday won’t feel like a Christmas miracle every time we see a queer person on screen the while we’re on our way to that realy — the spir of Christmas, I tst that this will happen, a few plot pots om now — here are some holiday films featurg queer stori, wh jt the appropriate amount of ches for the Yuleti All the Way (2021) Helmed by Tony-wng director Michael Mayer, Netflix’s first gay holiday movie tells the story of Peter (Michael Urie). — a ol nt, and this stg choice is only the cherry on top of a film that stars three out actors for s gay the Christmas Tree (2021) Lifetime’s first-ever lbian Christmas movie, Unr the Christmas Tree is part of the work’s “It’s a Wonrful Lifetime” lp this year, and tells the story of marketg workaholic Alma Beltran (Elise Bman) and Christmas tree whisperer Charlie Freemont (Tattiawna Jon) the film, Charlie is exced when she fds the perfect tree for the Mae Governor’s Holiday Celebratn. Dashg December (2020) Paramount Network’s Dashg December is to gays as Christmas at the Ranch is to lbians.

But bt of all, I thk, is MacDowell’s performance as Deb, who, like some of the other parents the films on this list, jt wants to fd love for her gay kid. Christmas 2020 is the gayt Christmas ever. 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. Gays didn’t jt startg lovg Christmas this year. “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.

GAY CHRISTMAS CARDS

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 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 .

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

“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. 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?