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The Happiest Season trailer is here, queer, and spreading Christmas cheer

By Molly Catherine Turner

Happiest Season -- Meeting your girlfriend’s family for the first time can be tough. Planning to propose at her family’s annual Christmas dinner — until you realize that they don’t even know she’s gay — is even harder. When Abby (Kristen Stewart) learns that Harper (Mackenzie Davis) has kept their relationship a secret from her family, she begins to question the girlfriend she thought she knew. Happiest Season is a holiday romantic comedy that hilariously captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family’s acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin Christmas. Eric (Burl Moseley), Sloane (Alison Brie), Abby (Kristen Stewart), Harper (Mackenzie Davis), Jane (Mary Holland), Ted (Victor Garber), and Tipper (Mary Steenburgen), shown. (Photo by: /Hulu)
Happiest Season -- Meeting your girlfriend’s family for the first time can be tough. Planning to propose at her family’s annual Christmas dinner — until you realize that they don’t even know she’s gay — is even harder. When Abby (Kristen Stewart) learns that Harper (Mackenzie Davis) has kept their relationship a secret from her family, she begins to question the girlfriend she thought she knew. Happiest Season is a holiday romantic comedy that hilariously captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family’s acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin Christmas. Eric (Burl Moseley), Sloane (Alison Brie), Abby (Kristen Stewart), Harper (Mackenzie Davis), Jane (Mary Holland), Ted (Victor Garber), and Tipper (Mary Steenburgen), shown. (Photo by: /Hulu) /
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The trailer for Happiest Season has arrived, the first LGBTQ Christmas rom-com produced by a major studio. Read on to find out everything you need to know.

Queers of the Internet (i.e. Gay Twitter) have long been clamoring for some sort of queering of the Christmas Canon. With the thousands of Christmas movies that Hallmark, Netflix, and major studios churn out each year, are we seriously supposed to believe that not one queer person exists in the Holiday Cinematic Universe (HCU)?

Thankfully, noted lesbian icon Clea DuVall heard our pleas, bringing us Happiest Season with co-writer Mary Holland and DuVall directing.

The trailer for Happiest Season arrived Monday, perfectly timed to usher in the increasingly early holiday season. Check it out:

Starring Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis, Happiest Season follows Stewart’s Abby who plans to propose to her girlfriend, Harper (Davis) at Harper’s family’s holiday gathering.

When Abby arrives, though, she is in for a shock as she discovers her girlfriend has lied to her family about her identity as well as Abby’s. They all still believe that Harper is straight, and as a result, that Abby is, too.

The storyline is a bit frustrating, one that’s been played through time and again in the few LGBTQ stories that do exist. It’s a coming out narrative essentially, but one that hinges on lying and tricks, framing queer people as manipulative, which makes it doubly annoying.

Nonetheless, Happiest Season is the first LGBTQ Christmas romantic comedy produced by a major studio, and that is a gift worth wrapping under the tree with a big red bow. It is also refreshing to see an LGBTQ story told by actual queer people behind and in front of the camera–what an idea!

Happiest Season includes a star-studded cast. Schitt’s Creek‘s Emmy Award winner Dan Levy plays Abby’s requisite GBF (Gay Best Friend), there to counsel her through her crisis amidst his many hookups with strange men, because that’s what Gay Best Friends do, obviously.

More incredible actors star (many of whom are queer) including Mary Steenburgen, Victor Garber, Aubrey Plaza, and Alison Brie. We are certainly excited to see Happiest Season in all of its gay silliness as the latest entrant into the HCU when it arrives on Hulu on November 25.

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