Hallmark gay christmas movies
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 New York lawyer and an ambitious Brooklyn photographer are set up on a blind meet by their parents and fall in love, just in time to rejoice 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 female homosexual leading characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
The right has attacked mammoth corporations love Budweiser and Target for daring to show encourage for LGBTQ Americans.
Hallmark’s go is not without risk: This year alone, Republ
Jonathan Bennett to Luminary 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 personality 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 devote, but…telling a story about a wedding,” he said in an interview at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25.
“This is the first time we’ve had a gay wedding on Hallmark as the lead storyline,” Bennett said. “And that’s a giant move for the gay community so they can observe themselves represented in these stories.”
According to Hallmark, the feature follows “the lives and romantic relationships of three top friends of diverse backgrounds, cultures and sexual orientations…as they each find adoration and wedding blis
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 queer agenda wanted nothing more than what everyone else already had: marriage, kids, suburban bliss, position security and matching access to all the benignly merry things in experience. Some in the LGBTQ+ sphere fretted that this aspire list, once granted, strips away some of the qualities that set us uniquely apart. What happens to the innovation, the rebelliousness, the tawdry pleasurable that can only come from living on society’s fringe? Does getting all the basic things make us too … basic?
To watch at queer existence now in American culture, the doubt has all but answered itself: With the incremental attaining of equal rights, it’s as if the magic key was at last inserted into the glowing treasure chest, unleashing a superfluid starburst that enhanced the full spectrum of gender and sexuality – for everyone. In what was originally consideration to be a victory for the vanilla, we gained a thousand novel flavors. Why else would conservative groups (still) be losing their minds over this? Because it’s all too fabulous to bear.
Yet the g
As a longtime romance girlie, I love love love a cheesy Hallmark Channel romance, and their Christmas ones are the best: they inject holiday spirit 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 receive dozens of movies in which generic looking women in fabulous coats head to small towns to fall in love 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 womxn loving womxn Christmas romance movie, Friends & Family Christmas. It’s everything I love about the genre, and there were no bearded men in flannel trying to embrace 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 passion that movie. But it’s not really the “light Christmas romcom” that I was hoping for. Not every lesbian movie has to have the main struggle revolve around coming