45 Best LGBTQ+ Christmas Movies
1Christmas on Cherry Lane (2023)
Hallmark's #1 gay romantic lead, Jonathan Bennett, is paired with Vincent Rodriguez III (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) for 2023's offering.
Premieres December 9!
2Friends & Family Christmas (2023)
This year, Hallmark is debuting a lesbian Christmas romcom as well, starring Ali Liebert and Humberly Gonzalez (Ginny and Georgia). And it's a fake dating trope romance, too! Cannot wait.
Premieres December 17!
3Some of My Best Friends Are...(1971)
This film had to be one of the pioneers in this sub-sub-genre. It's about the patrons of a Manhattan gay bar on New Year's Eve. Right off the bat, that's a brave setting for a film–not many years had passed since the Stonewall Uprising at the time. Just look at all the content warnings in that old trailer! Definitely worth checking out.
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4Imagine Me & You (2005)
Some of the movies on this list are more Christmas than gay, and this one is more gay than Christmas. But it's a classic '00s romcom!
5Scrooge & Marley (2012)
A modern-day musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol in which Scrooge and Marley are ex-boyfriends. Uhhhhhh finally??
6I Hate New Year’s (2020)
A country singer looking for inspiration on NYE with an old friend who has had feelings for her for years? The drama. The yearning. The magic of the holiday season.
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7The Holiday Sitter(2022)
This new 2022 holiday flick stars Jonathan Bennett, ofc, who ends up babysitting his niece and nephew around the holidays and enlists the help of their hottie neighbor, Jason.
8Single All the Way (2021)
Netflix's first original gay Christmas movie follows a perpetually single man who convinces his friend to pretend to be his boyfriend for the holidays...not knowing his meddling mom already has plans to set him up on a blind date with someone else.
9A Very Salem Christmas (2021)
Whether or not you're a Days of Our Lives fan, you're gonna love this Christmas movie special. The plot goes like this: Will has a holiday movie to write and a Christmas Eve deadline to make, so with the help of his husband Sonny, they come up with some rather colorful stories. And fun fact: Will and Sonny had the first-ever same-sex wedding between men in U.S. daytime drama history.
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10Under the Christmas Tree (2021)
Under the Christmas Tree tells the story of two women whose paths unexpectedly cross after Charlie, a "tree whisperer," finds the perfect Christmas tree for the Maine governor's holiday celebration in marketing exec Alma's backyard.
11A Jenkins Family Christmas (2021)
In this BET+ original, a family struggling to hold it together for the holidays following a death gets a new surprise when one of the Jenkins siblings, Kenny, brings his boyfriend home for Christmas.
12The Bitch Who Stole Christmas (2021)
Starring RuPaul, this self-proclaimed "draggiest Christmas movie ever made" follows a tightly-wound fashion journalist as she's sent on assignment to cover a notorious Winter Ball competition.
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13Christmas at the Ranch (2021)
This movie gives a queer twist to the classic "city slicker coming home to the family ranch" holiday movie trope, following a woman who tries to save her family's ranch from foreclosure and the ranch hand who ends up catching her eye.
14The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls (2021)
Welcome to sequel season! In this movie, the Mitchell brothers unexpectedly get recruited for a Christmas house decorating reality TV show where they must compete against each other, adding some extra ~drama~ to the holidays.
15The Christmas House (2020)
This original movie marks the very first time Hallmark prominently featured a same-sex couple in a film. The Christmas House follows a couple who invites their adult sons home for Christmas. (Also, hi again, Aaron Samuels!)
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16Happiest Season (2020)
Happiest Season follows the story of a woman who brings her girlfriend home for the first time over the holidays, but there's a catch: She hasn't yet told her family she's queer. Cue all the drama.
17Dashing in December (2020)
In this sweet flick, a man goes home for the holidays to convince his mom to sell the family ranch, never imagining that he'll have his mind changed (and his heart stolen) by a cute new ranch hand who has big dreams of saving the property. Family ranches and ranch hands are a common theme here, apparently!
18A New York Christmas Wedding (2020)
What happens when an angel visits a bride-to-be right before her Christmas Eve wedding? She discovers what might have happened if she hadn't denied her feelings for her childhood friend, and that's exactly what goes down in this cheesy—but nevertheless fantasti—romance.
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19The Christmas Setup (2020)
The Christmas Setup revolves around a guy who (thanks to his mom) gets the chance to start a holiday romance with a secret high school crush. But just as things are heating up, that crush gets a job offer across the world, forcing the two men to have the dreaded what-are-we convo.
20Twinkle All The Way (2019)
Not only did this Lifetime movie feature an openly gay couple, but it also axed the typical closing shot of the male and female protagonists kissing and instead closed out the movie with a shot of a same-sex kiss—a refreshing first for the network.
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