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- THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
- JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
- LIFETIME STS REAL-LIFE MARRIED GAY UPLE S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE
- MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI
- ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR GAY CHRISTMAS MOVI
- LIFETIME PLANS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE CENTERED ON A GAY ROMANCE
THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
Helgren wrote and directed the film and told Gayety he loved brgg a tradnal holiday story to life wh two men playg the lead. The film will jo another gay-led holiday movie premierg this season – Hallmark Channel’s The Holiday Ster starrg Jonathan Bent. 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?
JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
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.
LIFETIME STS REAL-LIFE MARRIED GAY UPLE S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE
The Hallmark Channel is gettg to the gay Christmas a part of s Countdown to Christmas event, Hallmark Channel has announced s first Christmas movie that foc on a gay Holiday Ster will be released on December 11 on The Hallmark Channel and will star Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent, Gee Krissa, and Chelsea — Becky VanValkenburg (@Becky VanValkenburg). He mak the trip wh his hband Jake, played by Brad Harr, and the pair wa to hear about the possible adoptn of their first 's only September, but wh Hallmark announcg s slate of holiday movi, and other platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and Lifetime havg also announced holiday movi and specials, so far, The Holiday Ster is the only one to foc on gay characters.
Startg 2020, Christmas was for the gays.
MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI
RELATED | 23 Christmas Songs by LGBTQ+ Artists to Make the Yuleti Gay.
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Watch “Merry & Gay” on the brand new lbian & queer streamg service, DIVA Box Office TV. In 2020, Hallmark e QUITE the drama when they promised they would fally create a gay Christmas film for their work – and then “fot” to clu when they announced their listg.
‘TIS THE SEASON FOR GAY CHRISTMAS MOVI
But was hard to overlook the fact that while both films featured a gay uple, they were mor characters – or at bt, part of an ensemble st! I do have to ll out somethg I’ve noticed this year, everyone seems to be promotg Hallmark’s 2022 film The Holiday Ster the channel’s “first gay Christmas rom-” – umm, exce me?
Have we fotten all the drama of 2020 and “The Christmas Hoe”, what they promised at the time to be the first gay Christmas Hallmark film? However, I mt give Hallmark some props – at least they’ve acknowledged that ’s their first “Leadg Gay Couple a Hallmark Christmas movie. 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.
'" 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?
LIFETIME PLANS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE CENTERED ON A GAY ROMANCE
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. But this time around, Lifetime is puttg the gay romance at the center of the story.
For Lifetime, which last year had “The Christmas Setup, ” the channel’s first-ever movie starrg gay leads, the move was a big one: the premiere of “Unr the Christmas Tree, ” s first movie featurg lbians as the uple at the center of a holiday romance.