Rom com

  • The Christmas Setup : when Mom plays matchmaker for her gay son

    The Christmas Setup : when Mom plays matchmaker for her gay son

      The final mainstream TV Holiday LGBTQ movie Queerguru is reviewing this season comes from the Lifetime Channel.  It’s known for its crowd-pleasing programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles.  On this occasion the star is Fran Drescher known for all those years playing The Nanny, and she is cast…

  • The Christmas Set Up : a brand new queer rom-com on Lifetime TV

    The Christmas Set Up : a brand new queer rom-com on Lifetime TV

      Lifetime TV is the latest US Cable TV Channel  to launch its own original LGBTQ Holiday movie this season, a groundbreaking first for the channel  Part of a growing trend of adapting their signature highly sentimental rom-com where everyone is guaranteed a happy-ever-after-ending.  Helmed by openly gay Canadian filmmaker Pat Mills  from a script…

  • Happiest Season : Hulu’s muddled sugary queer rom-com

    Happiest Season : Hulu’s muddled sugary queer rom-com

      Back in the ‘dark ages’ the only way we could see any LGBTQ person on our television screens was if they were manic depressives, seriously unhappy, or dead.  Now this Holiday season with every American TV Cable Company insisting on doing their own LGBTQ movie, the pendulum has swung completely the other way.   Stuck…

  • Hallmark loses its gay virginity

    Hallmark loses its gay virginity

      Another big sign that we are making inroads into the hetro-normative world is that Hallmark Channel the family oriented highly sentimental TV Channel has its first queer Christmas movie! And if that is not surprising enough, they actually have openly gay actors playing gay characters  In The Christmas House two brothers Mike (Robert Buckley…