Your Christmas Movie Watch List
Updating the lesbian Christmas movie docket for 2025
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Every year, I update my lesbian Christmas movie guide with the season’s newest offerings. As my Paid Subscribers already know, a few movies are coming out this Christmas that qualify. In the lesbian-adjacent category, we have Michael Showalter’s Oh. What. Fun., which stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a mom who’s tired of being overworked and overlooked on Christmas. Chloë Grace Moretz plays her lesbian daughter, who brings a different girlfriend home each year. I haven’t seen it yet, but The Guardian called it a “soulless Q4 Amazon product,” so I’m not chomping at the bit to press play. I will add it to the list once I work up the courage to watch it.
2025 also brings us another Tello Christmas film in the form of The Christmas Writer. It follows a “lesbian Christmas author” who develops writer’s block after a bad breakup and the death of her Christmas-loving mother. It’s a low budget film featuring inexperiened actors, and it’s about what you’d expect. Fairly dull, and doesn’t have a ton of sparkle. I gave it a 3/10.
There are two more lesbian Christmas films on the horizon, and I have high hopes for both. The Christmas Baby is a Hallmark film starring IRL queer women Ali Liebert and Katherine Barrell. They play a couple, and when a newborn baby shows up on their doorstep on Christmas Eve, they suddenly become lesbian moms. The movie premieres December 21 on Hallmark, and will be available to stream on Hallmark+ the next day.
Canada has blessed us this year with A Firefighter’s Christmas Calendar (previously called The Firefighter’s Christmas Wish), which stars Polarized’s Holly Deveaux and Kyana Teresa. The synopsis reads: “When firefighter Dani Reed rescues a family just before Christmas, she reignites her late mother’s “Holiday Heroes” fundraiser to help the community. With her ambitious sister Jackie, charming photographer Sasha, and supportive dad by her side, Dani finds love, purpose, and the courage to step into true leadership.” It premieres on W Network on December 21st, and Plex says it comes out somewhere on December 10, but I can’t find any other information. I’m working on trying to get a screener now.
Let me know if you plan on watching any of these, and what other Christmas movies are on your list this year.
Some housekeeping: My final free post of 2025 will be my annual Best Of list, which will go out on the 21st. In January, I’m doing another AMA (Ask Me Anything) in honor of 5 years of this newsletter. If you’d like to ask me questions, you can put them in the comments below or ask them anonymously here. Here is last year’s AMA, to give you an example of the kinds of questions people have asked in the past. Happy holidays!
