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Jonathan Bennett to Star in Hallmark&#;s First Gay-Themed Movie
Jonathan Bennett, optimal 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 day 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 quixotic relationships of three finest friends of different backgrounds, cultures and sexual orient
This holiday season, actor Jonathan Bennett is not only continuing his reign as the king of Christmas movies, he's also breaking barriers.
"My agent called me and said, 'Hey, you have a Hallmark Christmas movie offer,' and I said, 'OK, great. Who's my girl?' And they go, 'Jake.' My jaw hit the floor," Bennett told CBS News correspondent Nikki Battiste.
He's starring in the Hallmark Channel's first Christmas movie with an LGBTQ storyline, "The Christmas House."
"Yes, we're just making holiday movies, but they're important," Bennett said. "They make people feel glad, and they bring people a sense of expect and joy."
Between Hallmark and Lifetime, 74 holiday movies are premiering this season. At least five of them feature LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning) couples.
Bennett, who lives in California with his boyfriend, Jaymes, said his goal with "The Christmas House" was to verb people feel less alone.
"It feels like I'm a part of progress and it feels really fine. I can just conceive what younger me would have thought watching this movie," he said.
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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 point of the Cherry Lane movies is that different couples have fallen in treasure at the same noun. It's wild to consider that eight of the nine couples are straight. Anyway!) Unless I'm mistaken 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 special promises to be for the girls and for the gays. With a Chappell Roan duet at bare minimum, it seems like 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 small town? And then another ex-girl
In a year of anti-LGBTQ backlash, Hallmark’s Christmas movies are a welcome signal 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 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 feature gay and lesbian leading characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
The right has attacked mammoth corporations fancy Budweiser and Target for daring