Hallmark Is Actually Airing a Movie Featuring a Same-Sex Wedding

While Hallmark still hasn’t officially announced any LGBTQ Christmas movies in this year’s lineup, they apparently at least learned something from the Zola debacle last year that saw viewers speaking up in support of inclusion. As a result, the network will be airing a new movie next week that includes four weddings — one of which features two brides.

“Nate and Brooke are going to the same four weddings, four weekends in a row,” reads the description for Wedding Every Weekend. “To avoid set-ups, they go together as ‘wedding buddies.’ But what starts as a friendship soon becomes deeper.”

While the description doesn’t mention a same-sex wedding, one of the Hallmark Channel’s Facebook posts advertising the film makes it pretty freaking clear.

The inclusion of the channel’s first LGBTQ wedding — even if it isn’t the primary one of the film — comes shortly after the network was criticized for not announcing any LGBTQ Christmas movies in their upcoming lineup.

Months before that, Hallmark faced significant backlash after pulling an ad for wedding company Zola featuring a same-sex couple after conservatives complained. They ultimately reinstated the ads, and the CEO at the center of the backlash resigned shortly thereafter.

Of course, One Million Moms is up in arms again at this latest minor inclusion of queerness, complaining that the “once conservative network has recently caved to LGBTQ pressure and has done a one-eighty from the wholesome content the channel once aired, and the network is now catering to the Left.”

They’ve called for a boycott to “all things Hallmark,” including wrapping paper, so long as they continue to be “bombarded by politically correct commercials and the LGBTQ agenda.”

But One Million (or in this case, 55,000 so far) Moms can scream all they want — Wedding Every Weekend is still airing next Saturday on the Hallmark Channel at 8pm CST. We can only hope it will do well enough that Hallmark will, indeed, make the yuletide freaking gay.