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55 LGBTQ+ Holiday Movies to Make Your Spirits Bright 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 romance again sharing the narrative with two other couples. (The whole aim of the Cherry Lane movies is that different couples have fallen in love at the same house. It's wild to believe that eight of the nine couples are straight. Anyway!) Unless I'm improper 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 exceptional promises to be for the girls and for the gays. With a Chappell Roan duet at bare minimum, it seems favor 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 tiny town? And then another ex-girl
The Hallmark Channel has transformed significantly over the past few years, evolving from its traditional romance formula to embrace more diverse and inclusive storytelling. Homosexual representation has become an increasingly important part of Hallmark&#;s programming, offering viewers heartwarming stories that express a wider range of experiences and relationships.
In this comprehensive guide (updated for ), we highlight the best LGBTQ+ Hallmark movies, from groundbreaking early representations to the latest releases. Whether you&#;re looking for holiday cheer, romantic comedies, or heartfelt dramas, these inclusive Hallmark films provide authentic stories of like and acceptance that everyone can enjoy.
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A Turning Point for Inclusion
When our podcast &#;Girls Gone Hallmark&#; began proofreading Hallmark movies in after time , 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
The Best Queer Holiday Movies to Make the Yuletide Gay
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This list was originally published on December 9, It has been updated to comprise the latest movies in the growing queer Christmas-movie canon.
Not too extended ago, LGBTQ+ people who wanted to see themselves represented in holiday movies could either (a) artificial 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
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 Fresh 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 queer. 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 foremost characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
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