Best gay christmas movies

A guide to 20 festive films with LGBTQ+ storylines, from classics like Carol and Single All the Way to new releases like Happiest Season and El Sabor de la Navidad.

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Find out where and how to stream or buy these movies online. So few holiday films feature characters who openly identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer, but these 55 LGBTQ+ Christmas movies do just that. Hulu and Hallmark both released new Christmas movies featuring LGBTQ+ leads this year, but we've got several classics we love just as much. Here are our favs.

Best Gay Christmas Movies: The 12 Gays of Christma It’s time to make the Yuletide gay (er). These gay Christmas movies bring the kind of holiday cheer that will make your heart grow three sizes. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not Pride. Or Fleet Week. Or Bear Week. Or the Dyke March. That is, gay and lesbian Christmas movies actually center queer people now — same-sex holiday revelers crush and fall in love, break up, regain romance, and just live the same celebratory.

We also wish we had more holidays represented in films that we could love — not just Christmas. Too niche? THE sapphic classic. This film is a gift! Where to watch it: Netflix or Binge. Chosen family, love and loss. This musical has a place in our hearts 4 eva! It is part romance, part comedy, part drama, part Smurfs?

Oh and part Christmas. Where to watch it: Binge. Let It Snow goes for a modern-day Love Actually vibe with its big ensemble and star-studded cast and intertwined stories. Where to watch it: Netflix. Side note, can Dan Levy be our gay best friend too? This Christmas film beautifully speaks to an old faithful queer question: was I actually in love with my childhood best friend? As her festival wedding draws near, Jennifer Nia Fairweather is visited by an angel and show what could have been, had she not denied her feelings for an old friend.

Equal parts cheesy and heartwarming, this Netflix Original rom-com is a gay twist on a Christmas classic — the fake relationship to avoid parental judgement while home for the holidays. Carol THE sapphic classic. Rent Chosen family, love and loss. A New York Christmas Wedding This Christmas film beautifully speaks to an old faithful queer question: was I actually in love with my childhood best friend?

Single All the Way Equal parts cheesy and heartwarming, this Netflix Original rom-com is a gay twist on a Christmas classic — the fake relationship to avoid parental judgement while home for the holidays.