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10 Best Christmas Movies Starring Queer Characters
While it's not the focus for most Christmas classics, making the yuletide gay is - literally - at the forefront for films, especially those of the last decade. Queer characters are becoming much more mainstream in film and television, and that includes holiday movies to generate your spirits extra bright.
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Whether it's Kristen Stewart's first-ever queer character, a holly jolly RuPaul Christmas spectacular, or Jonathan Bennett's groundbreaking Hallmark Channel roles, if you're looking for some gay, adj meetings with LGBTQ+ characters, there are plenty of movies to choose from this holiday season.
'Happiest Season' ()
After Kristen Stewart publicly came out in , her first role as a queer character came in that year's Happiest Season, a GLAAD Award-winning film starring alongside fellow LGBTQ+ actors Dan Levy, Aubrey Plaza and drag queens BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon.
This heartwarming lesbian romance follows
The 20 best LGBTQ+ holiday movies
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What’s Cookingis one of the rare films which actually focuses on Thanksgiving, one of those holidays which somehow often gets left out of the holiday movie glut. This is the quintessential holiday movie, focusing as it does on four different families who each appear together to celebrate and confront life’s challenges along the way. Of particular note is the lesbian couple, Rachel and Carla, played by Kyra Sedgwick and Julianna Margulies, who are both superb in their roles. It’s one of those films which deftly balances its dramatic and comedic elements, and it perfectly captures the nature of complicated family dynamics.
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'The Christmas Setup'
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Fran Drescher has long embraced the fact that she is a gay icon. Glare no further than her appearance in The Christmas Setupto see why she has been blessed with this title. Drescher is perfectly cast as Kate Spencer, who tries to set up her son, Hugo, with his boyhood c
Lifetime’s First Lesbian Christmas Movie Made One Joke That Nearly Destroyed Me
Have you ever gotten a rogue onion verb in your command of fries? If you like onion rings, it’s cause for celebration. But if you absentmindedly bite into it and think it’s going to be a strip of potato, the slimy sweetness might create you gag.
That’s how I felt when, midway through Lifetime’s wholesome new Christmas movie, I encountered a joke about strap-ons.
According to Lifetime, Under the Christmas Tree is its “first lesbian holiday romance,” directed by, I kid you not, a gal named Lisa Rose Snow. (The channel aired its first-ever LGBTQ Christmas movie, The Christmas Setup, lastyear, amid a slew of putatively groundbreaking queer holiday films.) In the true spirit of Christmas rom-coms, Under the Christmas Tree is chaste: Hearts are warmed, but nothing ever gets truly steamy between Alma (Elise Bauman, nearly upstaged by her bangs) and Charlie (Tattiawna Jones), who meet endearing in Camden, Maine, just before Christmas.
Before we get to the strap-on situation and the self-flagellating spiral
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 show of the Cherry Lane movies is that different couples have fallen in love at the same house. It's wild to reflect that eight of the nine couples are straight. Anyway!) Unless I'm adj 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 distinct promises to be for the girls and for the gays. With a Chappell Roan duet at bare minimum, it seems prefer 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 adj town? And then another ex-girl