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55 LGBTQ+ Holiday Movies to Make Your Spirits Radiant This Season
Season's Greetings From Cherry Lane ()
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 relationship again sharing the narrative with two other couples. (The whole point of the Cherry Lane movies is that different couples have fallen in like at the same dwelling. It's wild to believe that eight of the nine couples are unbent. Anyway!) Unless I'm erroneous and Sugarplummed ends with Janel Parrish and Maggie Lawson getting together, this is it.
Premieres December 5 on Hallmark+.
A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter ()
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.
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Last ExMas ()
Two girls who used to date trying to avoid each other over Christmas in their small town? And then another ex-girl
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 add the latest movies in the growing queer Christmas-movie canon.
Not too distant 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 queer 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
The Hallmark Channel has transformed significantly over the past not many years, evolving from its traditional passion formula to accept more diverse and inclusive storytelling. Queer representation has develop an increasingly vital part of Hallmark&#;s programming, offering viewers heartwarming stories that reflect a wider range of experiences and relationships.
In this comprehensive guide (updated for ), we highlight the finest LGBTQ+ Hallmark movies, from groundbreaking first representations to the latest releases. Whether you&#;re looking for holiday cheer, affectionate comedies, or emotional dramas, these inclusive Hallmark films provide authentic stories of love and acceptance that everyone can enjoy.
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A Turning Aim for Inclusion
When our podcast &#;Girls Gone Hallmark&#; began assessing Hallmark movies in late , we quickly noticed a significant lack of diversity. We even implemented a &#;diversity check&#; segment in our earlier episodes to highlight this issue.
The catalyst for change came after a controversy in , when Hallmark aired and subsequentl
In a year of anti-LGBTQ backlash, Hallmark’s Christmas movies are a welcome sign of progress
A charming suburban couple welcomes a 6-year-old foster daughter on a joyous Christmas Eve. A successful Recent York lawyer and an ambitious Brooklyn photographer are set up on a blind date by their parents and fall in love, just in time to celebrate 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 homosexual. Christmas movies have 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 lesbian principal characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
The right has attacked mammoth corporations prefer Budweiser and Target for daring