Hallmark christmas gay movie
As a longtime romance girlie, I love love like 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 get dozens of movies in which generic looking women in fabulous coats head to small towns to fall in admire 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 lesbian Christmas romance movie, Friends & Family Christmas. It’s everything I love about the genre, and there were no bearded men in flannel trying to brush 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 love that movie. But it’s not really the &#;light Christmas romcom&#; that I was hop
‘The Holiday Sitter’: Hallmark&#;s First Christmas Movie Featuring Same-Sex Couple Is For &#;Other People In The World Who Want To Be Acknowledged&#;
Starring in a Hallmark Christmas movie today isn&#;t much different than appearing in Mean Girls 18 years ago, says star Jonathan Bennett: just like he did with Lindsay Lohan in , he &#;meet cutes&#; an attractive single in a rom-com type setting in The Holiday Sitter.
This time, however, Bennett is making a petite history: the movie debuting Dec. 11 at 8. p.m. marks the first time a Hallmark holiday flick revolves around a same-sex couple. In this case, Bennett plays a confirmed bachelor named Sam who agrees to monitor his teen nephew and young niece while their parents are away. He ends up falling for Jason (George Krissa), an easy-on-the-eyes neighbor who&#;s far more adept at attentive for kids.
&#;We&#;re doing all the classic things that we adoration in Hallmark movies,&#; Bennett tells Deadline. &#;We&#;re doing the tropes that we&#;ve come to love and expect from watching Hallmark movies. We&#;re just turning up the com
Jonathan Bennett to Star in Hallmark&#;s First Gay-Themed Movie
Jonathan Bennett, top 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 character 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 love, but&#;telling a story about a wedding,&#; he said in an interview at San Diego Comic-Con on July
&#;This is the first moment we&#;ve had a gay wedding on Hallmark as the lead storyline,&#; Bennett said. &#;And that&#;s a huge move for the gay community so they can see themselves represented in these stories.&#;
According to Hallmark, the movie follows &#;the lives and adj relationships of three foremost friends of different backgrounds, cultures and sexual orient
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 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 gay. Christmas movies own 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 leading characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
The right has attacked mammoth corporations verb Budweiser and Target for daring