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The Best Queer Holiday Movies to Construct the Yuletide Gay
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This list was originally published on December 9, 2021. It has been updated to include the latest movies in the growing queer Christmas-movie canon.
Not too long ago, Diverse people who wanted to see themselves represented in holiday movies could either (a) pretend or (b) settle for a second-rate production with a homosexual character who had very few lines, ambition, or development.
Early in the contemporary queer holiday canon, 2005’s The Family Stone, which stars gay 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 male lover 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 womxn loving womxn Christmas movies actually center queer people now — lgbtq+ holiday revelers passion and fall in love, break up, regain romance, and just live the same celebratory December
Jonathan Bennett to Celestial body in Hallmark’s First Gay-Themed Movie
Jonathan Bennett, best known for his role as Aaron Samuels in Mean Girls, says his upcoming trilogy of films,The Groomsmen, will feature the first gay-centric main storyline in a Hallmark Channel movie.
Bennett, 43, told People that he will play the ethics of Danny in the films, starring alongside Tyler Hynes and B.J. Britt, who have previously starred in other Hallmark Channel films.
“Playing the character of Danny in The Groomsmen — not only are we telling a story of friendship and romance, but…telling a story about a wedding,” he said in an interview at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25.
“This is the first time we’ve had a gay wedding on Hallmark as the lead storyline,” Bennett said. “And that’s a large move for the gay community so they can watch themselves represented in these stories.”
According to Hallmark, the feature follows “the lives and romantic relationships of three foremost friends of distinct backgrounds, cultures and sexual orientations…as they each find treasure and wedding blis
Lesbian Christmas movies: the terminal frontier. In a Christmas Movie landscape dominated by heterosexual workaholic girl-bosses returning to their hometowns in power suits and falling for heterosexual males who do artisan/manual labor, for many years nary a lesbian or bisexual gal, let alone a neutrois person, dared to construct an appearance. It’s usually been hard to detect any LGBTQ+ Christmas movies at all, but in recent years gay men have been emerging out of the corners into the Christmas spotlight in droves and also, occasionally, a wee lesbian, homosexual or trans woman or a non-binary person has earned a few minutes under the mistletoe. In 2020, Clea Duvall’s Happiest Seasonstarring Kristen Stewart broke records for Hulu, and subsequent years have even brought some queer stories from Lifetime (Under the Christmas Tree, 2021) and Hallmark (Friends & Family Christmas, 2023). Although we’ve rarely found ourselves in the mainstream Christmas production spotlight, we have shown up as side characters and in indie films here and there, and in this genre it seems we’ll take what we can get!
This list is in chronological arrange and includes every Christ It’s the season to cuddle up on the sofa under a blanket, eat comfort food and watch lots of movies – and what better to observe right now than some of these heart-warming gay Christmas movies. We have put together a list of some of the most popular gay Christmas movies around, some on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other platforms, there should be something for everyone! If we have missed any queer Christmas movies from this list, please let us know! New to Netflix this year, our first gay Christmas movie focuses on Peter who you might recognise from Unattractive Betty. With mounting pressure from his family to get into an relationship and desperate to evade his family trying to ‘solve’ the problem of him organism single, Peter persuades best partner Nick to pose as his boyfriend on a trip place for the holidays…..this is sure to take some interesting turns Something that I am sure we can all relate to, being out in some circles, but not to your family… This gay Christmas movie see’s Harper bring her girlfriend Abby dwelling for Christmas, however to Abbys surprise Harpe10 Must Watch Gay Christmas Movies
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