“Baked goods, princes, small-town charm, Vanessa Hudgens, and Christmas Eve miracles are some of the qualities you can find in any Holiday rom-com. Queer love, however, seems to be missing from those stories…until now? When I was a teenager, my mom and I formed a Christmas tradition called Christmas Rom-Com Nights. Starting November 1st we would pick one or two nights a week to watch any light-hearted Christmas movie — we would wrap up our movie nights around January 15th (we’re from Puerto Rico, the Holidays here last that long). Most of the time, if not all the time, those movies fell within the tropes of romantic comedies. Cheesy, cringey, over-acted, inconsistent, heteronormative rom-coms. Yes, a lot of them were bad films, but it did not matter. We didn’t watch these movies to gain something other than feel-good entertainment and a dose of holiday cheer…”

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