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The Best Queer Holiday Movies to Make the Yuletide Gay
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This list was originally published on December 9, It has been updated to involve the latest movies in the growing queer Christmas-movie canon.
Not too prolonged ago, LGBTQ+ people who wanted to see themselves represented in holiday movies could either (a) fake or (b) settle for a second-rate film with a queer character who had very few lines, ambition, or development.
Early in the contemporary queer holiday canon, ’s The Family Stone, which stars queer icon Sarah Jessica Parker as a (shocker) snobby New Yorker spending the holidays at her boyfriend’s family home, became a queer hit for its B-plot gay couple with ambitions to adopt a baby. And while the film is still worth an annual watch, so much more has happened in seasonal cinema since SJP’s iconic spilled-strata scene with matriarch Diane Keaton. That is, gay and lesbian Christmas movies actually center queer people now — same-sex holiday revelers crush and fall in love, break up, regain romance, and just dwell the same celebratory December existence
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There are many things to love about the holiday season (if you happen to be a Christmas lover like myself), and one of them is the seemingly endless supply of Christmas movies. There are the classics, like It’s A Marvelous Life and White Christmas, but there’s also the yearly deluge of cheesy Netflix and Hallmark movies that all have essentially the same plot. Unfortunately for us, very scant of these offerings involve lesbians in any way.
The idea that lesbians also belong in Christmas movies has gotten slightly more popular over the last couple of years, with both Lifetime and Hallmark recently releasing their first Christmas movies with lesbians in them. Still, the list of movies that could be categorized as “lesbian Christmas movies” remains very short.
Since I know I’m not the only one wishing Christmas movies were gayer, I decided to create a handy guide to all the lesbian Christmas movi
Last week, Queerty posted an article proclaiming, “The Hallmark Channel is gayer than ever this year!” This is followed by a massive list of exactly THREE movies that they consider gay. The first one, Catch Me If You Claus stars Luke Macfarlane in his 16th movie for the network. Yes, the Bros co-star is gay in genuine life, but the traits in the film is not. Kudos to him for continuing to be cast in straight roles, but… do we then count this as a gay film?
The second show on their list, Christmas on Cherry Lane is an ensemble piece that includes a gay couple. Jonathan Bennett, Hallmark’s go-to gay actor for queer roles plays opposite Vincent Rodriguez III. It airs December 9th.
The third motion picture, Friends and Family Christmas centers on lesbian friends (Humberly Gonzalez & Ali Liebert) who must pose as a couple for the holidays… and you’ll never guess what happens! This one premieres on December 17th.
So there you have it. As a reminder: The Hallmark Channel is premiering 42 – FORTY-TWO – new Hallmark Christmas movies this season. And we’re supposed to kvell because TWO of them are gay-ish? Honey, please.
Since , a scant of these gay disposable h
In a year of anti-LGBTQ backlash, Hallmark’s Christmas movies are a welcome signal of progress
A charming suburban couple welcomes a 6-year-old foster daughter on a joyous Christmas Eve. A successful New York lawyer and an ambitious Brooklyn photographer are set up on a blind dine by their parents and fall in love, just in time to commemorate Christmas together. One might think that these movies — “Christmas on Cherry Lane” and “Friends and Family Christmas” — are exactly the sort of heartwarming, family-friendly holiday romances that conservative culture warriors would cheer.
But this year on the Hallmark Channel, there’s a plot twist: The main characters are gay. Christmas movies own dominated the family-friendly channel’s winter programming for nearly two decades, with millions of loyal viewers. Last year, Hallmark aired its first Christmas movie with gay central characters. This year, two new movies feature gay and sapphic leading characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
The right has attacked mammoth corporations favor Budweiser and Target for daring to show back for LGBTQ Americans.
Hallmark’s step is not without risk: This year alone, Republ
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