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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, 2021. It has been updated to include the latest movies in the growing homosexual Christmas-movie canon.
Not too long ago, LGBTQ+ people who wanted to spot themselves represented in holiday movies could either (a) pretend or (b) resolve for a second-rate clip with a queer ethics who had very not many lines, ambition, or development.
Early in the contemporary homosexual holiday canon, 2005’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 monitor, so much more has happened in seasonal cinema since SJP’s iconic spilled-strata scene with matriarch Diane Keaton. That is, lgbtq+ and lesbian Christmas movies actually center queer people now — same-sex holiday revelers crush and collapse in love, break up, regain romance, and just live the same celebratory December
Lesbian Christmas movies: the concluding 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 form 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, gender non-conforming or trans woman or a non-binary person has earned a few minutes under the mistletoe. In 2020, 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, 2021) and Hallmark (Friends & Family Christmas, 2023). 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 can get!
This list is in chronological direct and includes every Christ
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 intimacy again sharing the narrative with two other couples. (The whole point of the Cherry Lane movies is that different couples have fallen in cherish at the same dwelling. It's wild to believe that eight of the nine couples are linear. Anyway!) Unless I'm untrue and Sugarplummed ends with Janel Parrish and Maggie Lawson getting together, this is it. Premieres December 5 on Hallmark+. 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. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Two girls who used to date trying to avoid each other over Christmas in their small town? And then another ex-girlfriend shows up? That's the stuff! Premieres December 3 on VOD. 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 definition 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, 2021. The movie centers on two gay best friends trying to navigate the holidays back home and, you guessed it, their feelings for one another. Peter is tired of spending every Chri
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