12/5/2023 0 Comments Dashing in december![]() ![]() Make sure you’ve seen every film to ensure more are made.īut in the Christmas movie genre, the rules of cinema aren’t the same. It’s a step forward for representation, and as a queer person, you want to gobble it all up. In 2020, every major network hawking holiday films is boasting an LGBTQ-centeric narrative. Fifteen years later, sifting through holiday movies for a gay character isn’t as difficult. Granted, representation wasn’t exactly a priority in 2005 pop culture, so Thad (a gay member of the deaf community) and his partner Patrick (a Black man folding himself into one of the WASP-iest family in cinema) were pulling diversity overtime. 20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock // Shutterstock Keaton, Giordano, and Claire Danes in The Family Stone. When you see an idealized version of your own story, you internalize it. If you made it one, you were the asshole. The insistence that in someone’s world, being gay wasn’t an issue. Thad happened to be the first gay character I’d seen prominently featured in a holiday movie. But their treatment of it, at least for me, wasn’t. They quite literally liken being gay to “handedness.” It’s unremarkable and average. The Family Stone-as manic and critically panned as it may be-attempted to create an idyllic world that doesn’t tolerate LGBTQ intolerance, just a year after the first state in the U.S. The Stone family, progressive beyond their years, practically crucify her. She stumbles into the topic of Thad’s sexuality and hits every branch of the offense tree as she tumbles downward. It all started after Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) awkwardly put Thad on the spot. You are more normal than any asshole sitting at this table. Not particularly because I was actively trying to learn the sign (it is, admittedly, super handy) but because it’s what Sybil (Diane Keaton) says to her son Thad (Ty Giordano) following a chilly dinner conversation about his sexuality. Stream A New York Christmas Wedding on Netflix.I learned how to sign “asshole” in 2005, thanks to The Family Stone. I would say the film is less about Gabrielle and Jennifer’s love story and more about Jennifer discovering what and who she wants. A New York Christmas Wedding is all about second chances and even has a religious storyline with Chris Noth as Father Kelly. Azrael turns out to be Jennifer’s guardian angel and gives her a life with Gabrielle (Adriana DeMeo). The falling out leads to a chain of tragic events, including Jennifer burying the side of herself that was in love with Gabrielle. In 1999, around Christmas, Jennifer (Camilla Harden) had a falling out with her best friend Gabrielle (Natasha Goodman). (Image credit: Netflix) A New York Christmas Wedding (2020)Ī New York Christmas Wedding is a 2020 Netflix Christmas movie about Jennifer (Nia Fairweather), a woman who is about to marry her fiancé David (Otoja Abit) on Christmas Eve, but then she saves a young man named Azrael (Cooper Koch) and gets to see what would have happened had she pursued feelings for her best friend. Rent/buy The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls on Amazon. Stream The Christmas House on Hallmark Movie Now. In 2021, Hallmark made a sequel to this movie called The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls. The LGBTQ+ storyline was seamlessly and naturally added into the fold without Hallmark making a big deal about them being a same-sex couple, or adding any prejudice or coming out storylines. Brandon and Jake’s storyline was a subplot, but an important one as it dealt with them trying to adopt. The Christmas House was quite different from many Hallmark Christmas movies, in a good way-mainly because it dealt with more somber topics before it got its Christmas cheer. Ana Ayora plays Andi, Mike’s hometown love interest. Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence play their parents. Jonathan Bennett plays Mike’s brother Brandon, and Brad Harder plays Brandon’s husband Jake. Quickly, Mike learns that this Christmas isn’t going to be as happy and magical as he expects. It follows the star of the fictional series Handsome Justice, Mike (Robert Buckley) as he heads back home to help his family turn their home into the Christmas house. ![]() The Christmas House is Hallmark’s first movie featuring an LGBTQ+ couple as key characters. (Image credit: Hallmark) The Christmas House (2020) ![]()
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