I n the vast Hallmark-decked landscape of feelgood Christmas flicks, LGBT+ identities are usually nowhere to be found. However, streaming services are about to change the festive game with not just one but two queer-focused releases. Sixteen years after a same-sex storyline was infamously cut from Love Actually, Netflix is trying to right the wrongs of that and many other movies with Let It Snow . The film, adapted from the 2008 young adult novel by Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle, is pure corny Christmas fun, transporting viewers to a small Illinois town hit by a snowstorm on Christmas Eve. The advent of this seasonal queer story marks a major improvement for LGBT+ representation on-screen, reflecting the fact that more people – an increase of two per cent and four-and-a-half per cent in the UK and US respectively – now identify as non-heterosexual. Unlike the book, Let It Snow features a female queer romance. Liv Hewson stars as Dorrie, who falls for closeted cheer
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