At the end of Twinkle all the Way, matriarch Twinkle Harrison (Lesley Ann Warren)-yes, she is really called Twinkle-looks lovingly at both her sons, happy with their partners, and a happy home. Lifetime and Hallmark have always seemed more conservative citadels to breach.
Something may be stirring in the pine forests Netflix’s Let it Snow also features a queer romance, as Autostraddle’s Drew Gregory recently wrote. LGBTQ people know this territory very well. After all, they are all about love and good knitwear. The next step, surely, is for Lifetime or Hallmark to make an LGBTQ relationship the focus of one of these films.
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This, and the presence of Lex and Danny’s relationship in the movie as a whole, has excited a lot of comment online, because although there has been the odd gay sighting in the twinkly, sanitized world of Christmas movies, rarely if ever has a gay relationship (and a kiss) taken center stage. Indeed, it is the same-sex kiss between Brian Sills’ character Lex Harrison and husband Danny (Mark Ghanimé) that rounds out the movie, not the kiss between hetero protagonists Cadence Clark (Sarah Drew) and Henry Harrison (Ryan McPartlin). However, Twinkle all the Way-written by Brian Herzlinger and Megan Henry Herzlinger Brian Herzlinger also directed it-is also surprising for not ending with its usual straight kiss amidst the glitter, sprinkle, snow, and cozy knitwear. Twinkle all the Way, the feel-good (really, it does feel very good) Lifetime Christmas movie that premiered last weekend, is in many ways like so many other holiday movies: sappy, cute, kind of silly, and best consumed with a glass of very sweet eggnog. But with a gay couple, and closing gay kiss, it may shake up these snowy, typically heterosexual worlds of love. Lifetime’s ‘Twinkle all the Way’ feels like any Christmas TV movie.
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