The "Mean Girls" actor will star "The Christmas Hoe," a holiday film about a gay uple lookg to adopt their first child.
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- HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
- THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT
- HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF
- JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
The Hallmark Channel is known for s chey but heartwarmg Christmas movi. This year, the channel cid to diversify s sts by featurg s first openly gay lead uple. * has hallmark made a gay movie *
The mercials, while many were quick to praise, sparked ntroversy after gag attentn om nservative group One Milln Moms and LifeSeNews, a right-wg Catholic news anizatn, who each issued petns for Hallmark to mata “fay-iendly” ntent by leavg the “promotn of homosexualy and transgenrism” out of the ntent on s channel.
THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT
“Hallmark would be offendg Christian viewers and Christian parents BIG TIME, by experimentg wh homosexual them, and, or operatg wh the LGBT doctratn agenda, ” read the LifeSeNews petn. “Shame on Hallmark for airg mercials wh same-sex upl and even nsirg movi wh LGBT ntent and lead characters, ” said, cg that fay entertament is not the place to “be polilly rrect by forcg tolerance and acceptance of homosexualy. On social media, the channel was acced of homophobia, wh the hashtags #BoyttHallmarkChannel and #HomophobicHallmark beg quick to circulate on Twter.
HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF
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JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
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. This year, the channel cid to diversify s sts by featurg s first openly gay lead uple.