expanded canon of LGBTQ holiday movies is Netflix’s, the platform’s first gay, Christmas romantic comedy starring Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers and Luke Macfarlane.
Written by Chad Hodge () and directed by Michael Mayer (Broadway’s, ), the film tells the story of a recently single Peter (Urie), who convinces his best friend, Nick (Chambers), to join him and his family for the holidays and pretend to be his boyfriend.
Like the growing number of original festive-themed movies on channels like Hallmark and Lifetime, the film is full of holiday cheer while love is lost but eventually found before the end.
But what separates this one, and recent entries like on Hulu, is how “queer positive it is,” Urie says. “It is a movie without homophobia,.
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