Five Very Merry Queer Holiday Movies and TV Shows

This holiday season may not be looking like it has in the past, but that doesn’t mean the holiday spirit has to bid us adieu! Entertainment networks such as Hallmark and Paramount are finally incorporating LGBTQ representation in their holiday movies. We have a list of the five must-watch, very merry, queer holiday movies right here for you to help you kick off the holiday just right.

The Christmas House

The Hallmark channel’s very first LGBTQ holiday movie is set to debut on Sunday, November 22. Starring Mean Girls’ Jonathan Bennett as Brandon and Brad Hader as his husband Jake, the movie follows the queer couple on a trip back to Brandon’s parents’ house for Christmas. An overall light and humorous theme, the couple navigated the uncertain terrain of awaiting on word of their possible first adoption. “What I love about the characters in the movie is that we aren’t caricatures or stereotypes,” Bennett says. “We are two loving, stable, kind men who are in love and want to start a family of our own,”he tells NBCnews.com. 

Dashing In December

Dashing In December was filmed in Colorado! The movie takes place on a family farm with a queer cowboy as the ranch handler. Wyatt Burwall (Peter Porte) comes home from his busy city life for a holiday family reunion. He’s still trying to convince his mothe, Deb, to sell the family ranch until he meets Health Ramos (Juan Pablo Di Pace). A romance heats up between Wyatt and Health, suddenly selling the ranch doesn’t sound like the best idea. Maybe keeping the old ranch is not the worst idea? Set to air December 13, this holiday TV show will warm up even a Grinch’s heart.

Happiest Season

Some of the LGBTQ community’s celebrity icons are in Hulu’s Happiest Season, Including Schitt’s Creek executive producer Daniel Levy, Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Clea DuVall, and Aubrey Plaza. There’s someone for everyone to love in this new holiday movie. As a queer couple goes home for the holidays, one finds out her girlfriend hasn’t come out to her parents yet. Full of holiday love and tears as the family learns to accept their queer daughter, Happiest Season hits the streaming platform on Thursday, November 26.

The Christmas Setup

The Christmas Setup, scheduled to debut on December 12, is a holiday drama about deciding what is most important. Patrick and Hugo spend the holidays together cooking up love and happiness starring Fran Drescher, Blake Lee, Ben Lewis, and Ellen Wong. Hugo receives a life changing opportunity to move to London, with a new job lined up. He has to decide is his career what he needs or the love of his partner.

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Dash and Lily

Netflix’s new series is based on Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levith, a romantic novel about a sparking romance between Austin Abrams and Two Iwata. Their love begins with the two writing each other notes, thoughts, and feelings throughout the day. Two New Yorkers bring the fashion, drama, and romance. Dash and Lily originally aired on November 10. If there’s an LGBTQ holiday movie of TV that just came out and deserves to be noticed, drop it in the comments!