Make the Yuleti gay wh the new LGBTQ Christmas movi

Contents:

• HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE
• INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
• BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

HAPPY HOLIGAYS: EVERY 2021 LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY MOVIE

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. 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.

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Kramer's semi-tobgraphil drama to life this HBO film, tellg the story of the creatn of the Gay Men's Health Crisis at the height of the AIDS epimic. Tellg the te story of a young man who is subjected to a gay nversn therapy program, the film featur a number of LGBTQ+ intifyg stars, cludg Cherry Jon and Troye nowMy Own Private Idaho (1991)This ntent is imported om youTube. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Hanks and Denzel Washgton star one of the first mastream Hollywood movi to tackle the subject of HIV/AIDS, homosexualy, and homophobia.

The lp clus plenty of romance, tear jerkers, German ps havg gay shower sex, and classic tal of nocent young n check out the full movie scriptns and curated clips of their selected "Netflix and Chill" favor at the webse. Of urse, this was 1948, and that queerns is all subtext, but roars to the surface thanks to gay screenwrer Arthur Lrents's script and performanc by s notably gay leads, Farley Granger who plays Phillip Man wh an anx flamboyance, and John Dall, whose Brandon Shaw embodi a more rerved, posh queerns. This 1969 Japane New Wave film f avant-gar edg wh meta-documentary style filmmakg and non-lear storytellg to follow Eddie (played by androgyno cis actor Peter), a trans woman who works as a hosts as a gay bar — the l between trans and gay inty are msy at bt, given when this was ma.

INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

In this 1935 film that marks the first llaboratn between Hollywood gay ins Hepburn, Grant, and director Gee Cor, Hepburn plays Sylvia, the meek dghter of a bookkeeper who disguis herself as a boy to help her father flee gamblg bts. In Caravagg, Jarman queers the history of the Italian Baroque pater Michelangelo Merisi da Caravagg by takg the highly homoerotic subtext of his work (along wh age-old spicns about his sexualy) and jectg right to the text, reimagg the artist openly gay affairs. Teamg wh documentarians Tyler Jensen and Roman Chimienti, this fascatg leadg man steps back to the spotlight to share his story as a closeted gay actor who survived public mockery and the AIDS crisis to fd a love and muny that tak pri him.

BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

Wele to Chechnya (2020)The third film om Amy Award-nomated documentarian David France, Wele to Chechnya tak viewers on a guerilla-style vtigatn to the anti-gay purg that still plague the nstuent republic of Rsia. Not only do the explosive project tail the abhorrent polici created by Vladimir Put and Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov to crimalize homosexualy, also lv to the sid culture the ernment has stilled s cizens to enurage hate crim. Megan, nimona, every bodyten bt queer moviAs we’re about to h the big doublehear blockbter of Barbenheimer, ’s time to look back at the year (so far) year, we’ve already got several Osr ntenrs among 2023's bt queer movi, cludg an animated tale about a shaphifter, a story about a trans woman rennectg wh her mother, and some terrific are our 10 favore queer movi of the year (so far) alphabetil Jeanblue jeanIn Brish wrer/director Geia Oakly’s but film, a high school gym teacher named Jean (Rosy McEwen) is livg 1980s England when the Conservative party, led by Margaret Thatcher, announced Sectn 28, which prohibed the “promotn” of homosexualy as a “pretend fay relatnship.

Somehow the movie is even gayer (and dare we say, better) than the amazg book, and arriv wh some of the most betiful animatn and one of the most powerful msag about seeg yourself and others for who they are you’ll VIscram viThe two latt Scream movi have revalized the anchise wh a new “Core Four” that clus the anchise's first out queer character Mdy Meeks-Mart, played by out actor Jasm Savoy Brown. Ala Guirdie’s sexy and sry “Stranger by the Lake” has earned cricisms for nflatg homosexualy wh crimaly, but ’s hard not to be drawn to the world of a nu beach that serv as a regular cisg spot for lonely gay men. It is the only member of the Group of 7 natns that has not legalized same-sex month, the Japane Parliament passed a bill that outlawed “unfair discrimatn” and promoted “unrstandg” of gay and transgenr people, a measure that rights advot emed sufficient and watered down om a bill submted natn’s urts have been more sympathetic to gay and transgenr rights.

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Wolfe (Ma Raey's Black Bottom), wrten by Dt Lance Black, and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's productn pany Higher Ground, this film is a mt-watch this year, pecially wh Coleman Domgo as civil and gay rights in Bayard Rt. The artist David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS 1992, ed his queerns as a radil pose, a way of sayg, as Chris McKim’s documentary “Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F***er” not, “I’m not gay as I love you, I’m queer as fuck off. YoungFavore BodyAlex MecumFavore ButtAlam WernikFavore BearTeddy TorrFavore Cam GuyMax KonnorFavore FTM StarTrip RichardsGayVN Star of the YearCamran MacRELATED | The Are the Top JtForFans Male Adult Performers of 2020.

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. But the se is put to the tt when his mother (another gay fave, Kathy Najimy) sets him up wh her hunky traer (“Brothers and Sisters” actor Le Macfarlane) to “Sgle All the Way” for stg three out actors as gay characters — and for stg Jennifer Coolidge, perd.

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

3, NetflixFormer nttants return to the tents for a pair of holiday-themed episos: In “The Great Christmas Bakg Show, ” out ic Tom Allen subs for Noel Fieldg to -host wh gay prenter Matt Lus as season ne’s Jon Jenks and Kim-Joy Hewlett and season 11’s Herme and Rowan Williams whip up wondro Yuleti treats.

IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?

“The showstopper challenge, they’ve got to make a ftive feast illn ke, ” judge Pl Hollywood teased, acrdg to “The Great New Year’s Bakg Show, ” 's season five wner Nancy Birtwhistle up agast season ne champn Rahul Mandal and two nttants om season 19: Gay nerd Henry Bird and wchy Helena Garcia. 18, Hallmark ChannelLast year, after sparkg outrage by pullg a jewelry ad featurg lbian bris, Hallmark ma amends by featurg the first gay uple one of s many, many holiday movi: "The Christmas Hoe" sred more than 13 ln viewgs over the 2020 holiday season, so a sequel was a no-braer.

In the origal, Bill and Phylis Mchell (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) ved their adult sons home for the holidays, then drop a bomb that they’re sellg the fay time around, gay son Brandon (Jonathan Ben) and his hband, Jake (Brad Harr), pete wh Brandon’s straight brother, Mike (Robert Buckley), to see who n create the most ftively rated Christmas hoe. 19, LifetimeLast year, Lifetime buted s first gaycentric holiday flick, "The Christmas Setup, " and this season, 's brgg a lbian romance to the small this holiday tale om "The Christmas Setup" screenwrer Michael J.

Set Stephens’ hometown of Sandky, the film is a love letter to the real-life hairdrser Pat Psenbarger, played by Kier, and the flamboyance of yteryear’s gay Pat, as he’s affectnately known to everyone the small town, p his nursg home for one last big adventure: stylg lol celebry and ex-client Ra for her funeral. "Jake Gil Netter / HBO MaxAfter beg nceled for tweetg a joke about a nservative senator’s gay son, a bisexual TV wrer based Los Angel, Ava (Hannah Ebr), is forced to lower herself to ghostwrg for an agg Vegas stand-up legend, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart).

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

Characters our favore TV shows and films are expandg beyond “the gay BFF, ” “the murro lbian, ” and the “suicidal homosexual” trop, and stori where the lead’s sexualy isn’t the whole pot of the plot are also fally beg ma (see the wonrful Scht’s Creek) are also a number of new movie releas on the way. Cured (US, 2020)BFI FlareFor queer Amerins the 1950s and 1960s, the battle for eedom wasn’t only a legal and cultural fight—to be gay meant beg fired om work, social excln, prison sentenc, mental hospals, nversn and electric shock therapy, and certa s, a -pth study of mid-20th-century US queer history featur newly disvered archive footage and terviews wh people who put their liv and livelihoods on the le for our future eedoms. 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.

The dispary between the extents to which the Christmas-obssed ble channels are focg on LGBTQ holiday ntent 2021 is nsistent wh their rpective cisns ma on the matter last year, when Lifetime st a gay uple as leads “The Christmas Setup” and Hallmark featured s first homosexual uple as part of an ensemble “The Christmas Hoe. “Even though we’ve got ‘Unr the Christmas Tree, ’ which is a real highlight, we’ve got several others the mix that are clive, whether they’re gay upl or jt characters, we’ve been tryg to make sure that people are reprented across the board, ” Lifetime head of programmg Amy Wter told TheWrap durg an Oct.

When “The Christmas Setup, ” Lifetime’s first-ever movie starrg gay leads, played by married--real-life uple Ben Lewis and Blake Lee, buted last year, Wter told TheWrap she had been lookg for a project starrg LGBTQ leads for some time, but was very agast somethg “really sacchare. “The fact that big Hallmark — the greetg-rd divisn — overturned Bill Abbott’s cisn on the Zola ad shows that the pany is ser about diversy their mographics, and we’re seeg lots of baby steps the 2020 and 2021 movi wh gay and lbian B-stori. Meanwhile, when Ellie's not spendg her ee time watchg classic Hollywood cema wh her father and mdg the tra that through the statn outsi their hoe, she and Pl navigate the nuanc of their unlikely film is a morn take on the playwright Edmond Rostand's Cyrano Bergerac, but 's also culled om director Alice Wu's iendship wh a straight male bt iend who helped her e to terms wh her gay inty and the emotnal timacy they movie is Wu's return to filmmakg after about 15 years.

BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP

They fall love amid the crashg wav and yet-to-be unearthed relics of Lyme Regis England cir the early 19th director of the acclaimed gay-themed film God's Own Country, Francis Lee, helmed Ammone, which stars Wslet as a woman obssed wh her work, who bs the English seasi for fossils while livg a relatively solary existence wh her mother.

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. 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.

It gets a b dramatic, but Holiday's portrayal is hont, empathetic, and totally NOW14 Red Lodgeurty of AmazonThis 2013 movie is renamed The Unattaably Perfect Gay Christmas on Amazon Prime, but 's a great holiday watch by any name. The summer before that, Billy Eichner and Nicholas Stoller ma history wh Universal Pictur’ “Bros, ” among the first ever gay rom-s fund by a major stud: an important victory — even if that film did go, uh, soft at the box office.

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Wrten and directed by Argentian filmmaker Luc Castro his feature but, “End of the Century” is the natural scendant of lh romanc like “Weekend” and “Call Me By Your Name, ” and will certaly endure as one of the most evotive gay films of the . Not a gay story so much as a queer one (Sciamma’s extraordary “Tomboy” illtrated her distert strict fns of sexualy), “Beg 17” is shared between two teen boys growg up the emotnally vivid mountas of the French Pyrene. Terence Davi’ rtoly well-penned but eply spairg film is a portra of World War I-era English poet Siegied Sassoon, who lived a fortably gay shadow life on the g of the Bright Young Thgs, settled to marriage middle age, and died a late-mted Catholic, bereft, 1967.

It’s also a sign of thgs to e — wh “Carol, ” Hayn solidified his abily to brg a h perspective to gay inty earlier perds of Amerin history, but “Far From Heaven” was the first proof of his brilliant pacy to medate on the past through a searg ntemporary lens. The untry settg and rtraed storytellg have led to evable “Brokeback Mounta” parisons, but “God’s Own Country” has the benef of two h fac the leads to fully hab the rol wh no prr associatns, as well as the eedom to buck Hollywood trop (cludg that pky one where every gay romance mt end tragedy). It’s impossible to overstate the signifince of “Moonlight” — as a cematic masterpiece, as spiratn to pennt filmmakers like Barry Jenks, but primarily for black gay men — who serve so many more exampl of profound art that mirrors their experience.

The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters. In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.