Hallmark gay christmas movies 2024

Danny Pellegrino has opened up about adding a rare LGBTQ+ love story – and a sprinkling of sass – to Hallmark’s newest ‘bucket list’ Christmas movie.

The 39-year-old, who hosts the Everything Iconic podcast, wrote and starred in Deck the Walls, which premiered on the channel last month as part of the annual Countdown to Christmas celebration.

Ashley Greene leads the cast as Chicago-based designer Rose, who returns to her hometown to help her brother, Sal (Danny) with a house-flipping project for charity.

During her brief trip back to Ohio, she finds herself teaming up with foe Brysen (Wes Brown) to get the property fixed up before their Christmas deadline – while Sal is forced to work with high school nemesis Jake (Claybourne Elder) to ensure the project makes a splash.

In the last few years, the network has included multiple movies with queer romance themes and central plots.

And perhaps against all odds, there’s at least one decent queer-sex joke in this PG-rated made-for-TV seasonal flick, which definitely has annual-watch potential.

Corporate city girl returns back home to her small town to save the family business and fall in love with the family ranch hand?

Find us on Patreon! It’s a campy romp — with original songs — that follows a big-city success who doesn’t have to compromise her dreams for (queer) love.

Lifetime’s new and first-ever lesbian Christmas movie is a legitimately good queer film in which the main character, Alma (Elise Bauman), is not only accepted by her Maine-based, small-Christmas-business-owner parents for being a lesbian but encouraged to fall in love with out-of-town stranger Charlie (Tattiawna Jones).

There was little talk from the other major networks of new queer Christmas films either.

But I actually wasn’t too upset. It’s a sweet setup for a fake relationship to appease overbearing parents, but, of course, the corporate and creative realize they do have chemistry, for a very pleasant Friends and Family Christmas.

When the hot wedding planner lands in town (Rivka Reyes), Jane is enamored, for perhaps the first time since realizing she’s not into men. So much so that she gives him a blind date with a hot guy as an early gift? It’s a little low-budget but a fun twist on the classic Nancy Meyers mid-aughts rom-com, as both men find love in the most unpredictable of circumstances.

No new gay or lesbian movies premiered in 2025.

The Chicken Sisters – Originally aired on Hallmark+ in 2024 and brought to linear Hallmark Channel in 2025. Too cute. As fans, we can’t help but feel disappointed — the representation that once felt like a turning point now feels uncertain. Manhattan lawyer Hugo (Ben Lewis) returns home to Milwaukee with his quirky best friend, Madelyn (Ellen Wong), to hang with his pushy mom, (Fran Drescher), for a very festive week leading up to Christmas.

Hopefully, this ushers in a whole new era of queer remakes of holiday romance favorites. 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 December existence every heterosexual (or closeted) character has gotten for, well, ever.

Now if we could just get a smart, well-written, celebrity-cast lesbian Hanukkah rom-com.

Head to small-town Ohio, where Bailey (Alexandra Swarens) meets the new cutie in town, Sam (Mak Shealy), while delivering a Galentine’s order of treats from her bakery.

‘Hopefully people who maybe don’t have exposure to LGBTQ people will get to see these characters and familiarize themselves with characters who might be different than they’ve seen on the network … and help expand their brains a little bit, and hopefully embrace those LGBTQ characters.

‘When I started my podcast, I would talk about Hallmark and all of these holiday movies that are made for TV.

My complaint in those early days was that there wasn’t any representation within these movies.

‘So, it’s been thrilling over the past seven years to get some of these that have LGBTQ characters in it, because I think about just six years ago, seven years ago, five years ago, there weren’t any characters in any of these.

‘As we know, a lot of these networks – even outside of Hallmark – are producing so much holiday content.

Tello Films’ latest lesbian Christmas movie takes place in a remote, snowy town with a lively gay bar, specialty coffee shop, and queer-leaning yoga study.

Sam, a reclusive computer programmer new to the Midwest, quickly falls for Bailey, who happens to hate holidays. Below you’ll find the latest releases for 2025, along with highlights from the years leading up to today.

2025 LGBTQ+ Hallmark Movies

• The Christmas Baby (schedule for Sunday, December 21, 2025) starring Ali Liebert, Katherine Barrell, and Barbara Niven.

  While Hallmark+ has continued to feature some inclusive stories, viewers are eager to see more gay and lesbian Hallmark movies front and center in the network’s biggest lineups.

  We remain hopeful that Hallmark will continue expanding authentic representation across its movies and series. ‘But I love that – I love the big city gal that goes home, and I hope that people, after they watch it, see that there are little twists that I’m really proud of.

  ‘There’s also an LGBTQ romance.

  Don’t be fooled, this holiday flick is neither rom nor com (though it was billed as such), but it certainly is heartwarming with plenty of subplots to debate during an annual rewatch.