John Waters’ drag muse, Divine, plays a hard-edged teen who goes on a tear when she doesn't get the present she wants on Christmas morning. If we learn one thing from this gross-out masterpiece, it’s that Dawn Davenport better get them cha-cha heels for Christmas. Though a bit heavy-handed, “Holiday Heart” has a surprisingly good pedigree: Directed by Robert Townshend and produced by Robert DeNiro, it earned Woodard a Golden Globe. The “Pulp Fiction” star plays a big-hearted drag queen, the titular Holiday Heart, who takes in a crack-addicted mom (Alfre Woodard) and her daughter over the holidays.
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In this made-for-Showtime movie from the turn of the century, it was Ving Rhames’ turn. In the 1990s, directors loved putting macho actors in drag. Not exactly a lighthearted holiday flick, Todd Haynes’ lesbian romance is still a gorgeous snapshot of midcentury glamour: Cate Blanchett plays an upscale housewife struggling with her attraction to Therese (Rooney Mara), a department store clerk she meets while buying a Christmas present for her daughter.Ĭo-starring Rue McClanahan, Fannie Flagg, trans pioneer Candy Darling and Gary Sanders of “WKRP in Cincinnati,” “Some of My Best Friends Are…” is an astonishingly candid time capsule of the Stonewall era that reminds us that gays have been forging chosen families for generations. There’s no out characters in “A Diva’s Christmas Carol,” but there’s loads of camp, shade and tongue-in-cheekiness to appeal to queer sensibilities, including a “Behind the Music” special on Ebony and fictional bops like “Sleigh Ride” and “Heartquake.” 'Carol' (2015) Williams plays Ebony Scrooge, a successful but nasty R&B singer who mends her ways with the help of three spectral visitors, including gay fave Kathy Griffin as the Ghost of Christmas Past.
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You can’t have a holiday movie countdown without at least one remake of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” and this VH1 TV movie features Vanessa Williams giving us diva grinchiness a half-decade before "Ugly Betty."
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This indie rom-com is full of charm, humor and heart - and basically spelled out the plot of “Happiest Season” a decade in advance.
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Gunn’s mom and dad try to set him up with an old high school girlfriend over Christmas, but the tinsel really unravels when Nathan shows up unannounced. Plus, who wouldn’t want Diane Keaton as their mom? 'Make the Yuletide Gay' (2009)Ĭollege student Gunn (Keith Jordan) is totally out at school, but he hasn’t gotten around to telling his Midwestern family that he’s gay and that his “roommate,” Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero of "Degrassi"), is actually his boyfriend.
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While “The Family Stone” doesn’t reinvent the holiday movie, it does shake up conventions about expectations when it comes to romance. In a side plot, Everett’s gay deaf brother reveals that he and his partner are planning to adopt. 'The Family Stone' (2005)įresh off “Sex and the City,” Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Meredith, an uptight Manhattan executive who dreads meeting her boyfriend Everett’s boisterous family over the holidays. Below, we celebrate a dozen movies that make the yuletide just a little bit gayer. It’s also important to remember that “Christmas Setup,” “Christmas House,” the Paramount Network’s “Dashing in December” and Hulu’s “ Happiest Season” are hardly the first holiday movies to put a little queer spice in the egg nog.