55 LGBTQ+ Holiday Movies to Make Your Spirits Glowing This Season
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Season's Greetings From Cherry Lane (2024)
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 affection at the same residence. It's wild to reflect that eight of the nine couples are linear. Anyway!) Unless I'm false and Sugarplummed ends with Janel Parrish and Maggie Lawson getting together, this is it.
Premieres December 5 on Hallmark+.
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A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter (2024)
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 (2024)
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.
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Meet Me Next Ch
Jonathan Bennett to Celestial body in Hallmark’s First Gay-Themed Movie
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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 adore, 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 large move for the gay community so they can spot themselves represented in these stories.”
According to Hallmark, the film follows “the lives and romantic relationships of three finest friends of diverse backgrounds, cultures and sexual orientations…as they each find adore 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 Fresh York lawyer and an ambitious Brooklyn photographer are position up on a blind date by their parents and fall in adoration, just in period 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 tradition warriors would cheer.
But this year on the Hallmark Channel, there’s a plot twist: The main characters are lgbtq+. Christmas movies contain 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 highlight gay and dyke leading characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
The right has attacked mammoth corporations like Budweiser and Target for daring to show back for LGBTQ Americans.
Hallmark’s move is not without risk: This year alone, Republ
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 procure 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 queer woman Christmas romance movie, Friends & Family Christmas. It’s everything I love about the genre, and there were no bearded men in flannel trying to peck 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 cherish 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 opposition revolve around coming