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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 incorporate the latest movies in the growing queer Christmas-movie canon.
Not too extended 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 lgbtq+ 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 exist the same celebratory December existence
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 concrete life, but the nature 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 movie, 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.
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Lesbian Christmas movies: the last 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 lady, let alone a genderqueer person, dared to create an appearance. It&#;s usually been hard to discover 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 , 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, ) and Hallmark (Friends & Family Christmas, ). Although we&#;ve rarely found ourselves in the mainstream Christmas show 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 command and includes every Christmas and Hanukkah film with L Until recently, the majority of holiday rom-com relationships on TV were hetero &#; big metropolis girl falls for small-town guy, or big municipality guy falls for small-town girl &#; but more and more, a wider variety of relationships are being represented during the holiday movie season. With network and streaming options available, there are more platforms than ever producing more diverse content. Here are a few of our fave LGBTQ Christmas movies to check out between your yearly viewing of Elf and Christmas Vacation. Home of the “you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all” Christmas movies, Hallmark has finally put a lgbtq+ couple front and center. In its first LGBTQ Christmas movie, The Holiday Sitter features Jonathan Bennet (hunky Aaron Samuels from Mean Girls) as Sam, a big city Manhattanite who has to pay Christmas in the burbs to babysit his niece and nephew instead of his planned sunny vacay in Hawaii. Needing help with the kids, Sam .
One of the best parts of the holidays is snuggling up with some popcorn and a tasty beverage and watching a cheesy movie …or five. We’ve compiled a list of the best LGBTQ Christmas movies on TV this year for you to binge.
The Holiday Sitter