Happy Holigays: Every 2021 LGBTQ+ Holiday Movie | Decir

Contents:

• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’
• LIFETIME STS REAL-LIFE MARRIED GAY UPLE S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE
• HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE
• HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
• REAL-LIFE MARRIED GAY UPLE ST 1ST LIFETIME LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
• LGBTQ FILMS: 10 MERRY AND GAY HOLIDAY MOVI TO ADD TO YOUR WISH LIST

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

Early the ntemporary queer holiday non, 2005’s The Fay Stone, which stars gay in Sarah Jsi Parker as a (shocker) snobby New Yorker spendg the holidays at her boyiend’s fay home, beme a queer h for s B-plot gay uple wh ambns to adopt a baby. That is, gay and lbian Christmas movi actually center queer people now — same-sex holiday revelers csh and fall love, break up, rega romance, and jt live the same celebratory December existence every heterosexual (or closeted) character has gotten for, well, ever. Hallmark’s first-ever gay Christmas romance is a sparkly, trope-y film about the virtu of settlg down and startg a fay a glzy world where homophobia don’t exist.

Nearby, handsome sgle-gay-father-aspiree Jason (Gee Krissa) studi an adoptn pamphlet his ftively rated mansn while his dotg mom nsol him via phone om her home across the street.

A hyperfaiar, perhaps way-too-overdone heteronormative plot flipped to be gay?

FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’

Netflix’s first te gay Christmas movie (2019’s Let It Snow has a cute queer-teen subplot) follows plant daddy Peter (Michael Urie) as he heads home to New Hampshire wh his bt iend and pretend boyiend, Nick (Philemon Chambers), to avoid his mom’s (Kathy Najimy) naggg about his perpetual sgle stat. Lifetime’s first gay Christmas movie is a love story between (surprise! The Bt Queer Holiday Movi to Make the Yuleti Gay.

The new, LGBTQ+ holiday films and seri are gog to make the yuleti hella gay this holiday season! Drama and secrets get exposed this brand new, queer-clive fay saga that featur a gay uple played by Broadway actor/photographer Anthony Chatmon II and out mol Derek Chadwick! Nonbary actor Hugh Sheridan is takg on their first gay role, playg the happily married David alongsi hubby (played by Nicholas Brown) the Asie Christmas rom- Christmas on the Farm!

Directed by Tony wner Michael Mayer and starrg a stacked st that clus Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Le MacFarlane, Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Robertson, and edy screen legends Jennifer Coolidge and Kathy Najimy, Sgle All the Way is Netflix's highly-anticipated, first gay holiday film and tells the story of a gay man named Peter who is "sperate to avoid his fay's judgment about his perpetual sgle stat, " acrdg to the film's official (and relatable AF) scriptn. Emmy-wng TV in and Drag Race legend RuPl is gettg on all of the gay cheer this year by releasg her very own special holiday special for VH1, aptly entled The Bch Who Stole Christmas! Tellg the story of the Diaz fay, the seri featur a gay uple, as well as one of the first transgenr love stori to ever be featured a holiday rom-!

LIFETIME STS REAL-LIFE MARRIED GAY UPLE S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE

Part of the Hallmark Channel's imprsive and packed slate of 41 brand-new Christmas movi beg released this holiday season, the upg sequel to last year's gay-clive The Christmas Hoe, tentatively entled Deck Those Halls, is rng the origal st for another round of queer holiday cheer, cludg Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent and Brad Harr, the two actors who played the loveable hband-hband duo the first movie. After all, the project hails om Hallmark Channel, whose annual “Countdown to Christmas” lp of origal movi — a seasonal mastay both lucrative and beloved — clud 23 tl 2019, none featurg a gay uple. )As turned out, Bent‘s love tert wasn’t a woman at all: Instead, he’ll play half of the first gay uple highlighted the work’s heavily watched holiday programmg.

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

”Grossman — who is gay, as are Bent and Harr — unrstands where they’re g om and hop to meet some of the Hallmark fans halfway. But this time around, Lifetime is puttg the gay romance at the center of the story. A married uple (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) v their adult children, cludg gay son Brandon (Jonathan Bent) and his partner (Brad Hardner), to stay wh them the weeks leadg up to Christmas to revis the old fay tradn of transformg their childhood home to "The Christmas Hoe" — a procs that means extensively ratg the home for the Christmas holiday for what uld possibly be the last "The Christmas Hoe" has a sequel, 's not nearly as good as the origal.

This year, the channel cid to diversify s sts by featurg s first openly gay lead uple. Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Jennifer Coolidge and Kathy Najimy are makg this Yuleti EXTREMELY gay on December 2! The film stars Michael Urie as a sgle gay guy who is aaid of his fay’s judgment on his sgledom.

Wh Love, an Amazon Prime miseri showsg love stori om holidays all year, will feature not only a gay love story, but will feature one of the transgenr storyl a holiday rom-. The seri airs December 12 Dat of Christmas is a holiday realy datg show that will feature both a lbian and gay nttant lookg for holiday love on HBO Max November 25.

HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE

Brad Harr and Jonathan Bent played Hallmark Channel's first gay married uple the 2020 holiday movie The Christmas Hoe.

"It's so tertg: I went om hidg who I was to the world and kissg Ldsay Lohan Mean Girls to starrg as part of the first gay uple a Christmas movie for the biggt Christmas work the world, " says the actor, who me out publicly 2017. The actor has sce e out as gay, and marvels at how tim have changed. 2, Netflix dropped Sgle All the Way, starrg Michael Urie and Philemon Chambers — the first out gay Black actor to headle a holiday movie — as Los Angel-based bt iends who disver that they may be somethg more durg a Christmas vis to Urie's small-town home.

REAL-LIFE MARRIED GAY UPLE ST 1ST LIFETIME LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE

"And I thk what’s so great about this year is that the aren't stori about beg gay — they are stori about love, and that's somethg we n all intify wh. The fact that they’re gay isn’t the foc of the entire storyle. "I'm extremely proud that the problems the characters have [are] the same problems that a straight person might have, " Urie, who sred his breakthrough screen role as Vansa Williams's out gay assistant on Ugly Betty, tells Yahoo Entertament.

"They are not alg wh g out wo; they are not alg wh feelgs of shame; and they are not alg wh homophobic fai. "Philemon Chambers and Michael Urie star Netflix's first gay-themed holiday movie Sgle All the Way. (Photo: Philippe Bosse/Netflix)Chambers agre that ntemporary LGBTQ stori — holiday-related or otherwise — have evolved beyond the kds of g-out stori that played outsized rol movi like The Birdge and even Happit Season, where gay upl feel pelled to hi their inti om their loved on.

"If they thk gay people don't love Christmas, then they're livg unr some kd of heterosexual rock. If you don't like watchg gay people love Christmas, then you n go fd one of the lerally thoands of other straight Christmas movi. As we take over, Christmas movi will be herently gay, and the on about straight people will have to be scribed as straight Christmas movi!

MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

The holidays are supposed to be about makg the yuleti gay, but historilly, most of the rom-s set durg the most wonrful time of the year center on heterosexual romanc. Wh gay ins like Jennifer Coolidge and Kathy Najimy the st, ’s guaranteed to spread all sorts of cheer. It’s full of drama, secrets, and holiday joy, and also featur a gay uple played by Anthony Chatmon II and Derek Chadwick.

The Christmas Hoe 2: Deck Those HallsIn 2020, Hallmark released s first movie that featured a gay uple, and now ’s time for the sequel. Even though the channel aired s first same-sex kiss a holiday movie last year, this is s first holiday film to feature a gay uple the primary storyle.

“In 2019, when we first started workg on this project, 70 new Christmas movi premiered on the ma ble Christmas movie channels and none of them ntaed gay lead characters or storyl, ” Pl Schneir told CNN. “Even the word ‘trend’ suggts that this is somethg of the moment, like people are sayg ‘We’re gonna give the gays what they want, ’ and then ’ll end, ” Lewis said.

LGBTQ FILMS: 10 MERRY AND GAY HOLIDAY MOVI TO ADD TO YOUR WISH LIST

We were posively spoiled wh big gay rich. And after all that very merry reprentatn last year, we are eager to don our gay apparel and watch what 2021’s holiday season got for . Why You Can’t Miss It: This movie puts a gay twist on the classic fake-relatnship-for-the-holidays plot, adds a love triangle angle, and brgs Kathy Najimy and Jennifer Coolidge together?

This movie was created a North Pole lab specifilly for all of the holiday gays. That is gay nonsense and we are here for . Why You Can’t Miss It: No, this isn’t a queer rom, but havg Hoewiv the tle immediately mak the movie gay.

Why You Can’t Miss It: Remember The Christmas Hoe, one of last year’s big gay movi? The tradn ntu 2021, wh films starrg RuPl, Michael Urie, Jonathan Ben and more — pl appearanc by gay favor like Jennifer your holiday season bge-watchg ssns acrdgly wh the upg movi and specials. 2, NetflixTony-wng director Michael Mayer (“Sprg Awakeng”) helms Netflix’s first gay holiday film, which se perpetually sgle Peter (Michael Urie) beggg his bt iend, Nick (Philemon Chambers), to e home wh him and pretend to be his boyiend to put an end to his fay’s nstant meddlg.