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12 LGBTQ+ Hallmark Channel Stars Who Are Shaping the Future of Love Stories
Meet The LGBTQ+ Actors Making Hallmark’s Romance Films More Inclusive
In recent years, The Hallmark Channel has dedicated to increasing LGBTQ+ visibility in its films and TV shows, including casting queer actors in steer roles and showcasing diverse love stories. Here are 12 LGBTQ+ Hallmark actors paving the way for inclusivity on the network.
From Jonathan Bennett’s Christmas movies to Jake Foy’s openly gay character in Ride, Hallmark is highlighting more LGBTQ+ characters and inclusive storylines. Bennett starred and produced The Christmas House, Hallmark’s first movie to include a gay couple. The Mean Girls performer also starred opposite George Krissa in The Holiday Sitter, the first Hallmark film that centers on a gay couple. The Hallmark Channel made history again in 2022 when the network cast Donia Kash as the first openly nonbinary actor to star in a Hallmark film.
During 2023’s Countdown to Christmas beloved special, the network released its first-ever holiday movie to highlight a lesbian couple, Friends & Family Christmas, featuring Ali Liebert an
What’s better than one new Hallmark movie? How about three! The Groomsmen Trilogy is about to be your fall fixation, with three installations coming this October.
The Groomsmen Trilogy, staring Tyler Hynes, Jonathan Bennett and B.J. Britt, takes viewers on the journey of a lifetime as three best friends come together to observe their wedding days in the breathtaking destinations of Greece, Italy and Bulgaria. Each film in the trilogy tells a story of love and friendship from a man’s perspective. The trilogy is also set to make history, featuring Hallmark’s first direction gay wedding.
To talk about the film, Hynes, Bennett, and Britt joined GLAAD’s Anthony Allen Ramos.
Jonathan Bennett, who starred in the GLAAD Media Award nominated Hallmark films The Holiday Sitter and Christmas on Cherry Lane, also serves as an executive producer on the film. He shares that, “The Groomsmen came about because I got married two years ago and I had groomsmen in my wedding. Before that, I was a groomsman in three or four of my other best friends wedding and that they happen to be straight guys. So, I thought there was a really interesting story there of
Jonathan Bennett to Star in Hallmark’s First Gay-Themed Movie
Jonathan Bennett, optimal known for his role as Aaron Samuels in Mean Girls, says his upcoming trilogy of films,The Groomsmen, will feature the first gay-centric main storyline in a Hallmark Channel movie.
Bennett, 43, told People that he will play the character of Danny in the films, starring alongside Tyler Hynes and B.J. Britt, who have previously starred in other Hallmark Channel films.
“Playing the character of Danny in The Groomsmen — not only are we telling a story of friendship and love, but…telling a story about a wedding,” he said in an interview at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25.
“This is the first period we’ve had a homosexual wedding on Hallmark as the lead storyline,” Bennett said. “And that’s a huge move for the gay community so they can see themselves represented in these stories.”
According to Hallmark, the movie follows “the lives and idealistic relationships of three top friends of different backgrounds, cultures and sexual orientations…as they each find devotion and wedding blis
In a year of anti-LGBTQ backlash, Hallmark’s Christmas movies are a welcome autograph of progress
A charming suburban couple welcomes a 6-year-old foster daughter on a joyous Christmas Eve. A successful New York lawyer and an ambitious Brooklyn photographer are set up on a blind hang out by their parents and fall in love, just in time to observe Christmas together. One might think that these movies — “Christmas on Cherry Lane” and “Friends and Family Christmas” — are exactly the sort of heartwarming, family-friendly holiday romances that conservative culture warriors would cheer.
But this year on the Hallmark Channel, there’s a plot twist: The main characters are gay. Christmas movies own dominated the family-friendly channel’s winter programming for nearly two decades, with millions of loyal viewers. Last year, Hallmark aired its first Christmas movie with gay central characters. This year, two new movies feature gay and homosexual woman leading characters. Other movies have supporting LGBTQ characters as well.
The right has attacked mammoth corporations favor Budweiser and Target for daring to show assist for LGBTQ Americans.
Hallmark’s travel is not without risk: This year alone, Republ
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