The holidays are just around the corner, and this year is going to be extra gay!
Between Hallmark, Lifetime, and streaming platforms, hundreds of Christmas movies come out every year, but we usually only get a couple of queer ones. Bah humbug!
It’s the season of cozy sweaters, warm fires, and pumpkin spice lattes, so we want to indulge in the kind of cheesy holiday movies that the straights have been getting for decades. There are still too few for our liking, but this year, we’re getting a handful of adorable Christmas movies with LGBTQ+ characters falling in love at the holidays.
So, instead of rewatching Happiest Season for the tenth time, check out one of these heartwarming queer Christmas flicks!
1. Oh. What. Fun.
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Queer actress Chloë Grace Moretz stars alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Longoria, and Felicity Jones in Oh. What. Fun. which follows under-appreciated mother and grandmother Claire (Pfeiffer), who is trying to get ready for the holidays while her husband and kids are swept up in their own seasonal drama, including Moretz, who stirs up drama when she announces that her girlfriend is vegan when her mom had planned to serve steak for dinner.
A Keller Christmas Vacation follows the Keller siblings as they join their parents on a holiday cruise down the Danube. Not only is the family cute and quirky, but be prepared to be charmed by Hallmark mainstay Jonathan Bennett, who proposes to his longtime boyfriend, played by Anand Desai-Barochia, and receives an unexpected "not right now" answer.
In this adorable Christmas movie, lesbian romance author Noel (Shelby Allison Brown) returns to her hometown to recapture the Christmas spirit while she’s dealing with the death of her mother, a bad breakup, and a serious case of writer’s block. Back in Pinewood, Noel meets single lesbian mom Callie and sparks fly.
This lesbian Hallmark movie stars Ali Liebert and Katherine Barrell as a couple who find a baby on their doorstep just before the holidays and decide to foster-to-adopt. This leads to the couple navigating their new lives as moms while figuring out how to balance their relationship and career.
In this Christmas rom-com, sapphics will get to live out their fantasy of falling for a hot firefighter. The Firefighter’s Christmas Wish follows Dani Reed (Holly Deveaux), who reignites her late mother's ‘Holiday Heroes’ fundraiser to help the community after saving a family just before Christmas. With the help of her sister Jackie, Dani finds the courage to step into leadership and falls for charming photographer Sasha.
Where to watch: TBD in the U.S., the W Network in Canada
The holidays are just around the corner, and this year is going to be extra gay!
Between Hallmark, Lifetime, and streaming platforms, hundreds of Christmas movies come out every year, but we usually only get a couple of queer ones. Bah humbug!
It’s the season of cozy sweaters, warm fires, and pumpkin spice lattes, so we want to indulge in the kind of cheesy holiday movies that the straights have been getting for decades. There are still too few for our liking, but this year, we’re getting a handful of adorable Christmas movies with LGBTQ+ characters falling in love at the holidays.
So, instead of rewatching Happiest Season for the tenth time, check out one of these heartwarming queer Christmas flicks!
1. Oh. What. Fun.
Prime Video
Queer actress Chloë Grace Moretz stars alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Longoria, and Felicity Jones in Oh. What. Fun. which follows under-appreciated mother and grandmother Claire (Pfeiffer), who is trying to get ready for the holidays while her husband and kids are swept up in their own seasonal drama, including Moretz, who stirs up drama when she announces that her girlfriend is vegan when her mom had planned to serve steak for dinner.
A Keller Christmas Vacation follows the Keller siblings as they join their parents on a holiday cruise down the Danube. Not only is the family cute and quirky, but be prepared to be charmed by Hallmark mainstay Jonathan Bennett, who proposes to his longtime boyfriend, played by Anand Desai-Barochia, and receives an unexpected "not right now" answer.
In this adorable Christmas movie, lesbian romance author Noel (Shelby Allison Brown) returns to her hometown to recapture the Christmas spirit while she’s dealing with the death of her mother, a bad breakup, and a serious case of writer’s block. Back in Pinewood, Noel meets single lesbian mom Callie and sparks fly.
This lesbian Hallmark movie stars Ali Liebert and Katherine Barrell as a couple who find a baby on their doorstep just before the holidays and decide to foster-to-adopt. This leads to the couple navigating their new lives as moms while figuring out how to balance their relationship and career.
In this Christmas rom-com, sapphics will get to live out their fantasy of falling for a hot firefighter. The Firefighter’s Christmas Wish follows Dani Reed (Holly Deveaux), who reignites her late mother's ‘Holiday Heroes’ fundraiser to help the community after saving a family just before Christmas. With the help of her sister Jackie, Dani finds the courage to step into leadership and falls for charming photographer Sasha.
Where to watch: TBD in the U.S., the W Network in Canada
The holiday season is just around the corner, which means hot cocoa, plenty of flannel, and curling up with a fuzzy blanket to watch a cute Christmas movie.
Lucky for us, Lifetime is working to correct this problem with the upcoming The Firefighter's Christmas Wish, a sapphic Christmas rom-com about two women who fall in love.
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According to the official synopsis, “When firefighter Dani Reed (Holly Deveaux) rescues a family just before Christmas, she reignites her late mother's ‘Holiday Heroes’ fundraiser to help the community. With her ambitious sister Jackie, charming photographer Sasha, and supportive dad by her side, Dani finds love, purpose, and the courage to step into true leadership.”
After seeing those New Zealand women’s firefighters teasing their sexy calendar, we can’t wait to see someone living out our new dream of falling for a buff female firefighter.
Kyana Teresa, who stars as Sasha DuBois, the photographer who falls for Dani (Holly Deveaux), posted the poster for the upcoming film on Instagram with a message about the importance of queer stories, especially in our current political climate.
“It’s an absolute honour and privilege to be able to represent positive queer characters and stories especially during a time when we desperately need it most,” she wrote. “LGTBQ+ rights are under attack, queer media is being quietly removed from our screens, and anything we can do to show up, be visible and remain resilient in the face of it all is an absolute WIN.”
Of course, sapphics went wild in the comments and started reposting the poster all over social media.
“AHHHHHH!!! omg a new queer holiday romance movie!!! i promoted this on twitter and there's a whole queer community there that's excited, we can't wait,” one person commented.
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“a sapphic firefighter christmas movie? oh im seated,” someone else wrote on X, while another excited person posted, “oh my god a SAPPHIC HOLIDAY ROMCOM FEATURING A FEMALE FIREFIGHTER?!”
Teresa said she is unsure when the movie will be released, but it’s likely the holiday rom-com will hit our screens sometime before Christmas.
From left: Hunter Schafer, Tom Ford, Lux Pascal, and Adele.
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Fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford is set to direct his first film in almost a decade, and it’s going to be the next gay obsession.
The openly gay A Single Man director is helming and writing an adaptation of the Anne Rice novel Cry To Heaven, and it's also going to star gay icon Adele and some of your fave trans actors.
The movie, about a Venetian noble and a rival castrato singer who are both trying to succeed in the world of opera, is already in preproduction in London and Rome. While we don’t know a lot about the film yet, if it’s anything like the book, it will be full of betrayal, gay love, revenge, and plenty of melodrama.
But what do we know about the movie, what clues does the book give us about what the film will contain, and who is starring in it?
What is ‘Cry To Heaven’ about?
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We don’t have an official synopsis for the film yet, but the novel is set against the backdrop of 18th-centruy Italian opera and follows the intertwining lives of Guido Maffeo, a celebrated opera singer who was castrated when he was a young peasant boy, and Tonio Treschi, a Venetian nobleman forced to become a castrato by his exiled brother, Carlo. When Tonio is sent to study with Guido, the two men enter into a complex romantic and sexual relationship while also seeking revenge against Carlo.
Add in the unique position of the castrati who were lusted after by both men and women, as well as themes around identity, sexuality, and significant age-gap relationships, and you’re looking at a very gay-centric story.
What is a castrato?
In Cry To Heaven, both main characters are castrato singers, but what does that mean? A castrato is a male singer who underwent castration to retain his higher-pitched singing voice that would have been equivalent to a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. This procedure was usually done to boys when they were 8 to 10 years old and would keep their voices in the prepubescent range. The practice started in the 1500s, and its popularity started waning in the 19th century when it was largely phased out.
Who is starring in 'Cry to Heaven'?
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The film will not only reunite Ford with Colin Firth and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who have both starred in two of his previous films, but will also feature Adele in her first acting role and will have some excellent LGBTQ+ representation.
Both trans actors Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) and Lux Pascal (Pedro Pascal’s sister) are starring alongside Nicholas Hoult, Ciarán Hinds, George MacKay, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany, Owen Cooper, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Josephine Thiesen, Thandiwe Newton, Theodore Pellerin, Daryl McCormack, Cassian Bilton, and Hauk Hannemann.
Is 'Cry To Heaven' based on a book?
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The upcoming Cry To Heaven movie is based a novel by Anne Rice, who also famously penned Interview with the Vampire. The book was published in 1982 and was a commercial flop at the time, receiving mixed reviews with some critics enjoying its eroticism and sexual tension and others thinking it was melodramatic with overwrought dialogue.
When will it premier?
Cry To Heaven will start filming in January 2026, but while there is no word yet on when it will premiere, it is predicted to have a fall 2026 release date.
Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly and Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada 2 teaser.
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A sequel. For spring. Groundbreaking!
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci are all reprising their respective roles as Miranda Priestly, Andy Sachs, Emily, and Nigel on The Devil Wears Prada 2 — which just dropped a brand-new teaser that has the gays shaking in their Prada boots.
Director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna are attached to this sequel, which is scheduled for May 2026. The film also "introduces an all-new runway of characters including Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Pauline Chalamet, B.J. Novak, and Conrad Ricamora."
The Devil Wears Prada 2 opens in theaters on May 1, 2026.
