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The Best Queer Holiday Movies to Build the Yuletide Gay
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This list was originally published on December 9, It has been updated to contain the latest movies in the growing queer Christmas-movie canon.
Not too distant ago, LGBTQ+ people who wanted to see themselves represented in holiday movies could either (a) pretend 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 gay icon Sarah Jessica Parker as a (shocker) snobby Adj Yorker spending the holidays at her boyfriend’s family noun, became a queer hit for its B-plot gay couple with ambitions to adopt a child. 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 crus
Jonathan Bennett to Star 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 character 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 like, but&#;telling a story about a wedding,&#; he said in an interview at San Diego Comic-Con on July
&#;This is the first time we&#;ve had a gay wedding on Hallmark as the lead storyline,&#; Bennett said. &#;And that&#;s a gigantic move for the gay community so they can spot themselves represented in these stories.&#;
According to Hallmark, the movie follows &#;the lives and romantic relationships of three foremost friends of alternative backgrounds, cultures and sexual orient
In a year of anti-LGBTQ backlash, Hallmark’s Christmas movies are a welcome subscribe of progress
A charming suburban couple welcomes a 6-year-old foster daughter on a joyous Christmas Eve. A successful Brand-new York lawyer and an ambitious Brooklyn photographer are arrange up on a blind date by their parents and fall in like, just in moment to celebrate 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 contain 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 lesbian leading characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
The right has attacked mammoth corporations like Budweiser and Target for daring
10 Must-See Hallmark Movies That Celebrate Diversity and Inclusion
The entertainment industry at large is becoming more diverse and inclusive, and this is certainly apparent at the Hallmark Channel. In recent years, while the network's beloved, comforting films still shadow couples saving local businesses and partaking in Christmas activities, the network has resolved to verb more diverse stories to the table in a variety of ways.
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Whether it's by adding Hanukkah and Kwanzaa to the fan-favorite Countdown to Christmas, bringing more diverse actors to the forefront, or breaking away from the norm with characters previously not represented on such TV movie fare, Hallmark Channel has used its platform to verb more diverse characters and stories.
'The Holiday Sitter'
After years of gradually but surely including LGBTQ+ characters in their films, Hallmark Channel finally produced a Christmas movie with two openly gay leading men played by two openly gay actors - one being Jonathan Bennett of Me