About a closest gay man spending holidays in his small Wisconsin town, with his boyfriend. Haven't seen it but from the trailer it looks rather dated, but aren't all Hallmark* style holiday movies?
Does anyone know any other rural & gay holiday movies?
I just realized that the one actor in Make the Yuletide Gay is Adamo Ruggiero, who played Marco on Degrassi!
I see it also has an actress from Star Trek (Gates McFadden)
Dr Crusher!! I totally missed that!
Dashing In December (gay man returns home and falls for a ranchhand).
Christmas at the Ranch (lesbian returns home and falls for a ranchhand).
Under the Christmas Tree (arborist goes searching for the perfect Christmas tree and apparently falls in love with a small-town landowner)
The Holiday Sitter (kind of rural — city-based uncle brought home unexpectedly to watch the kids at Christmas)
The Jenkins Family Christmas (a family gathers for a tense reunion. One of the brothers brings his boyfriend along with him.)
To be fair, I’ve only seen The Holiday Sitter and it was cute.
Make the Yuletide gay is on my watch-every-year list. :D It's one of the first gay Christmas movies I discovered.
Dashing in December became one of my favorites, the first time I watched it.
Just watched the Holiday Sitter a few days ago; I'm not sure that I would call it rural, but I enjoyed it. :)
The Christmas Setup (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13147656/) is not technically in a rural environment, but it's also not big city. A small town train station plays a significant part in the movie. This is also one of my favorites.
Tangentially -- there is nothing at all gay about it, but The 12 Men of Christmas (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446201/) is another move I watch every year. It's set in a very rural small town, and there's a number of attractive men in it. Plus Kristen Chenoweth.
My therapist in college suggested I watch Yuletide the year it was released (2009). My parents had gone on a cruise over Christmas, so he said the parallels were too good to pass up (it’s just too bad I didn’t have a bf to surprise with a visit). It was definitely my first low budget indie gay movie too. Then again, they all were low budget back then… Brokeback Mountain was the outlier.
thanks for the great list!
"Under The Christmas Tree" also noted as being one of the few BIPOC lesbian holiday films and takes place in rural Maine; also stars Ricki Lake