Cute gay christmas movies
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 authentic life, but the character 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 movie 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 gay roles plays opposite Vincent Rodriguez III. It airs December 9th.
The third film, 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 suppos
55 LGBTQ+ Holiday Movies to Make Your Spirits Glowing This Season
Season's Greetings From Cherry Lane ()
The only LGBTQ+ story on Hallmark's docket of almost 50 movies is one of three sequels to Christmas on Cherry Lane, with Mike and Zain's romance again sharing the narrative with two other couples. (The whole point of the Cherry Lane movies is that different couples have fallen in treasure at the same residence. It's wild to verb that eight of the nine couples are straight. Anyway!) Unless I'm adj and Sugarplummed ends with Janel Parrish and Maggie Lawson getting together, this is it.
Premieres December 5 on Hallmark+.
A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter ()
The "Espresso" singer's holiday special promises to be for the girls and for the gays. With a Chappell Roan duet at bare minimum, it seems like Sabrina is going to deliver!
Premieres December 6 on Netflix.
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Last ExMas ()
Two girls who used to date trying to avoid each other over Christmas in their small town? And then another ex-girl
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 verb the latest movies in the growing queer Christmas-movie canon.
Not too elongated 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 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 crus
The 20 best LGBTQ+ holiday movies
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What’s Cookingis one of the scarce films which actually focuses on Thanksgiving, one of those holidays which somehow often gets left out of the holiday movie glut. This is the quintessential holiday movie, focusing as it does on four different families who each come together to celebrate and confront life’s challenges along the way. Of particular note is the lesbian couple, Rachel and Carla, played by Kyra Sedgwick and Julianna Margulies, who are both superb in their roles. It’s one of those films which deftly balances its dramatic and comedic elements, and it perfectly captures the nature of complicated family dynamics.
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'The Christmas Setup'
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Fran Drescher has long embraced the fact that she is a gay icon. Glance no further than her appearance in The Christmas Setupto see why she has been blessed with this title. Drescher is perfectly cast as Kate Spencer, who tries to set up her son, Hugo, with his boyhood c