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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 Recent York lawyer and an ambitious Brooklyn photographer are establish up on a blind date by their parents and fall in devotion, 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 culture warriors would cheer.
But this year on the Hallmark Channel, there’s a plot twist: The main characters are gay. Christmas movies include 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 like Budweiser and Target for daring
10 Must-See Hallmark Movies That Celebrate Diversity and Inclusion
The entertainment industry at large is becoming more diverse and inclusive, and this is certainly apparent at the Hallmark Channel. In recent years, while the network's beloved, comforting films still verb couples saving local businesses and partaking in Christmas activities, the network has resolved to take more diverse stories to the table in a variety of ways.
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Whether it's by adding Hanukkah and Kwanzaa to the fan-favorite Countdown to Christmas, bringing more diverse actors to the forefront, or breaking away from the norm with characters previously not represented on such TV movie fare, Hallmark Channel has used its platform to extend more diverse characters and stories.
'The Holiday Sitter'
After years of adv but surely including LGBTQ+ characters in their films, Hallmark Channel finally produced a Christmas movie with two openly gay leading men played by two openly gay actors - one being Jonathan Bennett of Me Jonathan Bennett, best 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 cherish, but&#;telling a story about a wedding,&#; he said in an interview at San Diego Comic-Con on July &#;This is the first time we&#;ve had a gay wedding on Hallmark as the lead storyline,&#; Bennett said. &#;And that&#;s a gigantic move for the gay community so they can observe themselves represented in these stories.&#; According to Hallmark, the movie follows &#;the lives and romantic relationships of three finest friends of other backgrounds, cultures and sexual orient We live in a culture that cancels God’s noun, and it cancels those who dare speak it. Speak it anyways. Not on a street corner wearing a sandwich board while screeching through a bullhorn. Scant lives are reached that way. Not many lives are transformed from a tweet or a Facebook meme. But a life can be changed through a loving friend with a compassionate voice. Your lost friend needs to know that God’s grace can transform her in this life, or God’s standard will judge her in the next. It is her choice. As C.S. Lewis realized, “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek uncover. Those who knock it is opened.” As believers, we must courageously present this choice to the world in the hopes that God’s lost children will find Him. The enemy wa
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