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Jonathan Bennett to Star in Hallmark’s First Gay-Themed Movie
Jonathan Bennett, finest 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 25.
“This is the first day we’ve had a queer 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 amorous relationships of three optimal friends of different backgrounds, cultures and sexual orientations…as they each find like and wedding blis
As a longtime love affair girlie, I devotion love love a cheesy Hallmark Channel romance, and their Christmas ones are the best: they inject holiday soul 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 own largely been missing from the Hallmark holiday romance conversation. Every year, linear people get dozens of movies in which generic looking women in fabulous coats head to small towns to fall in care for with grumpy lumberjacks. And while I love it, every year I can’t help but believe “when’s it going to be our turn?” This year, Hallmark finally gave us their first lesbian Christmas intimacy movie, Friends & Family Christmas. It’s everything I value about the genre, and there were no bearded men in flannel trying to kiss anyone under the mistletoe.
When Happiest Season was announced, I was so fucking ecstatic that we were finally getting a sapphic holiday love affair. And I admire that movie. But it’s not really the “light Christmas romcom” that I was hoping for. Not every woman-loving woman movie has to have the main conflict revolve around coming
55 LGBTQ+ Holiday Movies to Generate Your Spirits Bright This Season
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 intimacy again sharing the narrative with two other couples. (The whole point of the Cherry Path movies is that different couples have fallen in love at the same house. It's savage to think that eight of the nine couples are linear. Anyway!) Unless I'm wrong 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 (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 favor Sabrina is going to deliver!
Premieres December 6 on Netflix.
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Last ExMas (2024)
Two girls who used to hang out trying to avoid each other over Christmas in their little town? And then another ex-girlfriend shows up? That's the stuff!
Premieres December 3 on VOD.
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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 Brand-new York lawyer and an ambitious Brooklyn photographer are place up on a blind date by their parents and fall in cherish, just in second 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 queer. 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 movie gay and sapphic leading characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
The right has attacked mammoth corporations like Budweiser and Target for daring to show help for LGBTQ Americans.
Hallmark’s move is not without risk: This year alone, Republ
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 Brand-new York lawyer and an ambitious Brooklyn photographer are place up on a blind date by their parents and fall in cherish, just in second 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 queer. 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 movie gay and sapphic leading characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
The right has attacked mammoth corporations like Budweiser and Target for daring to show help for LGBTQ Americans.
Hallmark’s move is not without risk: This year alone, Republ