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Netflix’s first gay holiday rom-com
When the holiday season rolls around, I find myself pulled towards the lure of Hallmark-esque Christmas movies. They’re simply irresistible with charming small towns, cheesy romances, and holiday cheer.
Netflix has a wide range of original holiday movies out, and heaps of them are released every November. While I haven’t seen all of them, there certainly are a couple of gems.
Of course, it’s a fair critique to say that these types of movies are very formulaic and cliche. With unrealistic plotlines and predictable twists, the movies are by no means masterpieces. The once brooding love interest will always find the true meaning of Christmas, and any threats to the holiday will be miraculously resolved. However, despite the cheesiness, there is something so lighthearted and fun about these movies that is hard to ignore.
With Christmas approaching, I set out to watch a recent movie.
Number 8 on Netflix’s top ten charts was “Single All The Way,” released December 2nd, The movie centers on two lgbtq+ best friends trying to navigate the holidays back ho
The Best Queer Holiday Movies to Make the Yuletide Gay
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos Courtesy of Hulu, Netflix, The Weinstein Company via TUBI, and Hallmark Channel
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 elongated ago, LGBTQ+ people who wanted to see themselves represented in holiday movies could either (a) fictional 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 crus
Lesbian Christmas movies: the ultimate 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 girl, let alone a genderfluid person, dared to build an appearance. It&#;s usually been hard to identify 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, gender non-conforming 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 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
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 male lover. The first one, Catch Me If You Claus stars Luke Macfarlane in his 16th production for the network. Yes, the Bros co-star is gay in real life, but the ethics in the film is not. Kudos to him for continuing to be cast in vertical roles, but… do we then count this as a homosexual 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 star for gay roles plays reverse 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 assume what happens! This one premieres on December 17th.
So there you have it. As a reminder: The Hallmark Channel is premiering 42 – FORTY-TWO – unused Hallmark Christmas movies this season. And we’re suppos