Best LGBTQIA+ Holiday Movies Through the Years: ‘Happiest Season,’ ‘Single All the Way’ and More

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Making the yuletide gay. Everyone deserves to fall in love with a cheesy holiday movie at Christmas — and many networks and and streaming services are making their offerings more diverse than ever.“[Christmas movies] give everyone everything they want,” Jonathan Bennett, who has appeared in multiple Hallmark films before executive producing 2022’s The Holiday Sitter for the network, told Us Weekly in November 2022. “Yes, [The Holiday Sitter] an LGBTQ+-led movie, but it’s not for just LGBTQ+ people. [It’s] is a movie for everyone just like Hallmark Channel is for everyone.

And Christmas is for everyone.”The Mean Girls star’s comments came shortly after Candace Cameron Bure — who starred in 10 of Hallmark’s holiday films over the course of 13 years — opened up about her decision to leave the network in favor of Great American Media. “My heart wants to tell stories that have more meaning and purpose and depth behind them,” she told the Wall Street Journal‘s WSJ.

Magazine in November 2022. “I knew that the people behind Great American Family were Christians that love the Lord and wanted to promote faith programming and good family entertainment.”She continued: “I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core.”After the Full House alum’s comments made headlines, Hilarie Burton Morgan — who has starred in several Hallmark holiday films before opting to work with Lifetime — slammed her via Twitter. “Bigot.

I don’t remember Jesus liking hypocrites like Candy,” Burton Morgan wrote, alongside an article about Cameron Bure’s big move. “But sure.