On the film side, I’m partial to The Family Stone, which I return to year after year. TV lovers can revisit special Christmas episodes from Gossip Girl (“Roman Holiday”) and Pose (“Giving and Receiving”), or for something new, Netflix’s charming Dash & Lily. There’s more than enough queer holiday content to check out on streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, and HBO Max. I mean, Lifetime, Hallmark, and Paramount are all releasing new queer holiday films this month alone!īut if you don’t have cable to access these films (and you should if you can, as Paramount’s Dashing In December is a delightfully heartwarming film that goes down like a warm cup of hot cocoa on a freezing cold winter night), you don’t have to worry. Luckily, in the 21st century, this notion is changing. And for a long time, holiday-themed films and TV shows often followed this same pattern, telling palatable stories that further enforce the idea that the concept of “family” is exclusive to straight people. As a time commonly meant for “family,” the holidays can be awfully alienating for many queer people.
