The out gay stars of some of 2021's biggt Christmas movi expla why this year is the happit season for diversy.
Contents:
- THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
- WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
- THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
- HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
- MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
- 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
- MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI
- TWELVE GAY DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN
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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 works—Hallmark, Lifetime, Paramount—fally donned their gay apparel, jtifyg s of passn for this historilly heteronormative holiday.
WHY HALLOWEEN IS 'GAY CHRISTMAS' TO MANY LGBTQ AMERINS
From ‘Happit Season’ and ‘Carol’ to Netflix’s ‘Sgle All the Way’ and Lifetime’s ‘Unr the Christmas Tree,’ the are the bt gay and lbian Christmas movi. Holiday-romance movi aren’t jt for the straights, and the LGBTQ films prove . * gay christmas holidays *
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].
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“Your hoe be this other thg for this season, ” said Lee, touchg upon many gay men’s reason for the season.
HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
That seri—Holiday Home Makeover—serv a different purpose 2020’s avalanche of gay ntent.
MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
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. ” While thkg aloud, Lewis realized why so many Christmas specials seem so low-key gay. “There is somethg very gay about puppetry and stop motn animatn, jt general.
12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
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.
Gay creators have been tryg to make history for a mute.
MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI
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.
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.
TWELVE GAY DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
One of our art partment guys who’s gay me up to me and had tears his ey. Ben Lewis felt pelled to make sure that his character’s emotnal arc Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup would ronate wh gay dienc.
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