Hallmark gay christmas movies
As a longtime romance girlie, I love love cherish a cheesy Hallmark Channel romance, and their Christmas ones are the best: they inject holiday soul into my veins and require absolutely no critical thinking whatsoever. That’s what I want to be doing all holiday season. No thinking, just vibes.
Unfortunately, us sapphics have largely been missing from the Hallmark holiday romance conversation. Every year, straight people get dozens of movies in which generic looking women in fabulous coats head to small towns to fall in like with grumpy lumberjacks. And while I love it, every year I can’t help but think “when’s it going to be our turn?” This year, Hallmark finally gave us their first lesbian Christmas romance movie, Friends & Family Christmas. It’s everything I love about the genre, and there were no bearded men in flannel trying to touch anyone under the mistletoe.
When Happiest Season was announced, I was so fucking excited that we were finally getting a sapphic holiday romance. And I love that movie. But it’s not really the “light Christmas romcom” that I was hoping for. Not every lesbian production has to have the main conflict revolve around coming
Jonathan Bennett to Star in Hallmark’s First Gay-Themed Movie
Jonathan Bennett, foremost 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 love, but…telling a story about a wedding,” he said in an interview at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25.
“This is the first occasion we’ve had a queer wedding on Hallmark as the lead storyline,” Bennett said. “And that’s a huge move for the gay community so they can see themselves represented in these stories.”
According to Hallmark, the movie follows “the lives and lovey-dovey relationships of three finest friends of different backgrounds, cultures and sexual orientations…as they each find treasure and wedding blis
In a year of anti-LGBTQ backlash, Hallmark’s Christmas movies are a welcome write of progress
A charming suburban couple welcomes a 6-year-old foster daughter on a joyous Christmas Eve. A successful New York lawyer and an ambitious Brooklyn photographer are set up on a blind hang out by their parents and fall in love, just in time to commemorate 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 include 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 woman loving woman leading characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
The right has attacked mammoth corporations enjoy Budweiser and Target for daring to show aid for LGBTQ Americans.
Hallmark’s relocate is not without risk: This year alone, Republ
Make the yuletide gay: TV’s gay Christmas movies are as benign, charming and cliche as we always hoped they’d be
In olden times, the people behind the so-called gay agenda wanted nothing more than what everyone else already had: marriage, kids, suburban bliss, job security and equal access to all the benignly merry things in life. Some in the LGBTQ+ sphere fretted that this wish list, once granted, strips away some of the qualities that set us uniquely apart. What happens to the innovation, the rebelliousness, the tawdry fun that can only come from living on society’s fringe? Does getting all the basic things make us too … basic?
To stare at queer life now in American culture, the question has all but answered itself: With the incremental attaining of same rights, it’s as if the magic key was at last inserted into the glowing treasure chest, unleashing a superfluid starburst that enhanced the complete spectrum of gender and sexuality – for everyone. In what was originally thought to be a victory for the vanilla, we gained a thousand new flavors. Why else would conservative groups (still) be losing their minds over this? Because it’s all too fabulous to bear.
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