A merry Christmas for all: Hallmark Channel to add LGBTQ+ storylines to its holiday lineup

Seriously?? I did not expect this. Good for them.

How many will star Luke McFarlane?

I love this. Go hallmark

[quote]“Diversity and inclusion is a top priority for us and we look forward to making some exciting programming announcements in the coming months

I think gay people can thank the whole BLM movement for getting people to rethink their actions. Otherwise, I would never see this happening.

R4, rethink their not casting ethnic minorities. Gays have nothing to do with it.

Trans working its way into gay rights is like a genie granting a trick wish. You may ask for your dead mother back but instead receive an urn of talking ashes that complain bitterly about everything.

There will be four LGBTQ+ Hallmark Christmas movies and five of them will start black trans "women" and six of those will be played by Laverne Cox.

You're welcome for your new diverse representation, gays and lesbians!

Stay tuned for the heart-warming story of a family discovering their True Authentic Selves as a middle-aged heterosexual dad rummages through his wife’s lingerie drawer and realizes he’s always been a lesbian while their sassy 15 year-old undergoes a bilateral mastectomy and changes zir name to Aiden.

Is that true, r7? Because I was going to say something along those lines as a joke.

But how can you have 4 shows, 5 of which anything?

Let me guess: it’ll just be trans and lesbian shit since gay men have been erased lately.

Only lesbian characters, I bet. Or only campy men for comic effect.

What about the gay Jews? Will they be represented too?

Uh oh - One Million Moms - all 12 of them - are going to be PISSED!

How would this work out since their viewers are mostly middle aged conservative women. It will be funny if viewership drops.

LGBTQ+ = Trans.

R4, Holly Robinson Peete has a mystery series on the mystery channel and a show on the regular channel. And it has been on for at least a couple of years now. The mysteries are based on Al Roker's book or books.

It's nice to see, but the only Hallmark Christmas content I ever watch, are the old Christmas episodes of "Little House On The Prairie", "The Waltons", and so on.

Thank you!

I hope Hallmark favorite Candace Cameron Bure plays a lesbian in one.

Will Lacey Chabert play a widowed lesbian mom who moves back to her hometown from the Big City? And then has an antagonistic encounter with a lesbian sheriff she went to high school with? And end up scissoring (off camera of course) about 90 minutes in?

The lesbian characters will probably femme lesbians. No way will Hallmark have butch lesbo characters in their movies.

Here's my idea for a movie

Nick Kringle is a gay restaurant owner in New York whose secret is that he's the son of Santa who was kicked out of North Pole after coming out to his parents. Nick lives a happy life with his boyfriend Jeff. Things are turned upside down when an elf shows up begging Nick to return to the North Pole and take over for his father. Will Nick leave behind his gay community in NYC to return to the North Pole? Will Jeff learn his boyfriend's secret?

I wonder if Hallmark will also start featuring interracial couples. There was a controversy a few years back when an extra on a movie set was told that interracial couples are no in Hallmark movies.

[quote]I hope Hallmark favorite Candace Cameron Bure plays a lesbian in one.

I wonder if she's having a meltdown right now about Hallmark's decision.

This is probably a move to get Brucilla in a very special Hallmark holiday special where instead of dad carving the turkey, he carves the chicken... Merry holiday hilarity ensues.

This sounds like a perfect opportunity for Colton, his particular brand of cheese is perfect for Hallmark. And for some reason I bet he tracks well with straight women. While I’m at it might as well add in Clayton too. Maybe they can play rivals for some cute older daddy’s affection, ending in them all being a throuple with two bedrooms for Colton and Clayton and he alternates between them?

I can see Ben and Noah expanding on the storyline from Real O’Neal’s of rival boyfriends in the choir at Christmas time to make a gay holiday movie.

Currently in post production:

Jingle Balls

We Three Queens

It Came Upon A Midnight Queer

Up On The Bathhouse Top

Mary!'s Boy Child

O Glory Hole Night

I'll Be Homo For Christmas

There's No Place Like Home Depot For The Holidays

Trans Siberian Orchestra

Who wants to bet that, for gays, there will be no kissing and no sleeping together in the same bed.

I'm seeing LGBT people as supporting characters in the B storylines. (e.g. after Taylor moves back to her small hometown from the city, her gay male high school friend and his partner will give her a makeover to help her land the hot blue collar man who lives in town.

Maybe Billy Eichnier can expand on his new role of Paul Lynde and do a show inspired by the Halloween Special, but it’s a Christmas Special with him playing Lynde being the Grinch trying to host campy Christmas TV show with all kinds of hilarious mishaps and he ends up falling in love with the twink playing Max with Garrett Clayton in the role?

That's exactly what it'll be, R29.

I wonder how many they were able to film before lockdown.

Dilators in My Stocking

Finally, Peter Peter Porte and Trevor Donovan can co-star in a series of sure-to-be seasonal classics.

Ho, Ho and one more Ho

Christmas PrEP

Santa Came

Oh, Cum All Ye Faithful!

I hope the sex is extra raunchy with lots of tube steak, tossed salads and a cream filled dessert for the eventual big community picnic at the end.

I'll believe it when I see it. Last year they made a big deal about having Hanukkah movies but the actual movies turned out to be about a Jewish guy hiding his religion from his Christmas loving gf's family and another about a Jewish girl learning to love Christmas.

Sounds good, R8.

[quote]Who wants to bet that, for gays, there will be no kissing and no sleeping together in the same bed.

Hallmark doesn't even show the straight couples having sex or in bed. A few years back, I went to visit my parents around the holidays and they kept switching between Hallmark and Lifetime. Lifetime's Christmas movies weren't as bland as Hallmark's movies are and some quite fun like Kristen Chenoweth's 12 Men of Christmas movie.

Andrew W. Walker can be shirtless and show off his perfect body on Lifetime.

On Hallmark, he must cover up with a Christmas sweater.

If it's Hallmark the movies will all be about femme lesbians who never touch one another except to shake hands(briefly!)

He’s hot in a generic kind of way @R34

Some of the responses from religious conservatives. They should sign for one of those streaming services that only has religious movies in their catalogs.

[quote]Will Lacey Chabert play a widowed lesbian mom who moves back to her hometown from the Big City? And then has an antagonistic encounter with a lesbian sheriff she went to high school with? And end up scissoring (off camera of course) about 90 minutes in?

The lesbian sheriff will probably played Alicia Witt and Danica McKellar will play the sheriff's evil corporate lesbo girlfriend who wants to close the down the bakery that is owned by Lacey's parents.

Is it because she doesn't bake nut loaves?

Oh, great. As if gay films weren't bad enough already...

Sean Hayes can play a mincing elf trying to reunite a career girl with her small town high school boyfriend.

A new CEO fo the channel has been named. I bet there will be major changes and the Trumpsters how love Hallmark will probably be done with the channel by the end of the year.

One Million Moms is threatening a boycott

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This is a space we just don't belong in. Sure, I wanna see more goofy neighbors who can set a table or decorate a bathroom, gay BFFs to chicks who wear too much make-up & hair extensions, same-sex couples the town gets waaaaay to hyper sentimental over, postcard pride caricatures, and any other palatable stereotype, all written by clueless writers who sterilize gay concepts while attempting to inject every buzzword du jour into the dialog. Fuck that! We do not need to be interpreted by people who nothing about gay people to people who really don't care to know anything about us. You know as well as I do that many gay writers will even be willing to jump on a project like a Hallmark "script" just to be "the voice".

I am outraged they have chosen a skinny actor to portray Santa Claus! The morbidly obese need to be represented and we will not waddle away from our rightful place representing the average American body type! How dare you! How dare you sir! Now where is that plate of spaghetti and Christmas cookies!

I hope Aaron Tveit stars in the gay one.

Hallmark's new movie premiering on Saturday will feature a lesbian wedding.

Keyword - feature. It'll be a non-important side plot.

While Hallmark is taking babysteps to try to include something LGBTQ, Lifetime is going all in and making a gay Christmas movie

R55 I agree, it's a side plot. But, it makes me a bit happy that Hallmark's homophobe fans are having meltdowns.

Lifetime has always been ahead of inclusion compared to Hallmark. Back in the 90s and early 2000s, Lifetime made several gay related movies like Any Mother's Son where Bonnie Bedelia played a mother who discovered that her son's murder was a hate crime, that movie where Stockard Channing finds out her daughter is a lesbian, and the movie where Brooke Shields fights for her custody of her daughter after her partner dies.

Lifetime has also had movies with interracial couples and Hallmark has never had an interracial couple in any of their movies.

Jonathan Bennett, who played straight in two previous Hallmark Christmas movies, has the lead the the channel's first gay holiday film.

There has been more than one blind saying that they like to limit the number of POC in their casts for TV movies. Regardless, they are too fucking corny for me.

We will not see any FTM or hot man-on-man action.

R59 Those eyebrows are far from straight.

The actor playing his boyfriend, Brad Harder, is also gay.

[quote]The actor playing his boyfriend, Brad Harder, is also gay.

I give Hallmark credit for not hiring straight actors to play gay roles.

Isn't Catherine Bell a lesbo? Will she lead the first lesbian Hallmark movie or will it be Lacey Chabert?

Anyone watching the movie featuring the gay couple tonight?

[quote]There has been more than one blind saying that they like to limit the number of POC in their casts for TV movies. Regardless, they are too fucking corny for me.

A few years back, a woman who was an extra on one of their movie sets said that the producers or crew members told her that Hallmark didn't want interracial couples in their movies.

One of this year's new movies that was shown recently centered around an interracial couple.

Watching now and the gay plot is definitely playing second fiddle. At least there was an onscreen kiss.