Take Me to the Queers

Take Me to the Queers

Explore OTV's rich, intersectional content through these programs that center LGBTQ+ experiences.

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Take Me to the Queers
  • Pink & Blue
    Movie + 1 extra

    Pink & Blue

    Movie + 1 extra

    Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, and Actor: Kaydx. Director and Executive Producer: Carmen LoBue. Executive Producer: Silas Howard.
    Starring: Kaydx and Jojo Brown.

    Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). Present day. CREA MADDEN (Kaydx), a Genderfluid freelance artist and their partner of four years ARM...

  • Rough River Lake
    Movie + 1 extra

    Rough River Lake

    Movie + 1 extra

    A weekend “Gaycation” is interrupted when a group of Queer best friends discover their lake house got double booked with a fratty bachelor party. An ensemble comedy about party fouls and Queerness in the South.

    Indianapolis LGBTQ Film Festival
    London International Short Film Festival
    Short Film ...

  • REMENDO

    Movie

    Drama-comedy short created by Brazilian filmmaker, Roger Ghil.

    1ST Zé runs a repair shop where he toils over the dregs and discards of his suburban seaside town. Zé is a black bisexual middle-aged man looking for love, and facing down the traumas of colonialism to find a new kind of freedom. Bu...

  • Serial Dreamer

    4 items

    In Hair Story, a pilot for Serial Dreamer, residents of an artsy Black co-op tell their wild stories to an out-of-work drag queen as she styles their hair to pay her rent.

    // MUSIC VIDEO / DREAM SEQUENCE //

    WATCH THE FULL VIDEO: http://www.weareo.tv/presents/bsayf

    Apple: https://itunes.apple....

  • IS TOMORROW WEDNESDAY?

    Movie

    Directed by Queer, BIPOC Cavair Robinson, IS TOMORROW WEDNESDAY? is a nonlinear narrative, detailing the 24 hour period of events within the life of Peach Fuzz, a scrappy transient drifter who does whatever it takes to survive while living on the streets of a small Indiana town. After reconnectin...

  • Dont @ Me (Please)

    Movie

    don’t @ me (please) is a SlamFam Ensemble digital show that explores the “unprecedented times” we have been living in by blending poetry and film. Together, our ensemble of poets will ask all the burning questions that we need the answers to right now: how do you measure growth and progress when ...

  • Quare Life

    1 season

    Four queer women of color negotiate professional and personal relationships on Chicago's south side.

    //CAST AND CREW//
    M Shelly Conner (Creator/Producer/Writer)
    Myra Boone (Pilot Producer/AD)
    Jessica King (Director)
    Christian Mejia (Cinematographer)
    Alistair Slaughter (Sound Engineer)
    Dru Monta...

  • Lipstick City
    Movie + 1 extra

    Lipstick City

    Movie + 1 extra

    A visually sumptuous exploration of the drag persona of model Shea Couleé, this short film is an arresting display of dance, music, and fashion. When high end fashion model Miss Couleé discovers evidence that her powerful husband, Mr., isn't the faithful man she thought she married, she teams up ...

  • BRUJOS
    2 seasons

    BRUJOS

    2 seasons

    BRUJOS is a queer-of-color, radically politicized web series following four gay Latino doctoral candidates--that are also witches. They navigate magic, sexuality, and surviving a witch-hunt led by a secret society of white heteronormative male descendants of the first New World colonizers.

    Serie...

  • Rapbrarian: Reading Came First

    Movie + 1 extra

    Created by Erin Turney (Director, Co-Producer, DP, Editor) and Roy Kinsey (Main Character and Co-Producer).

    "Rapbrarian: Reading Came First” chronicles Roy Kinsey’s journey as rapper, librarian and creator of Rapbrary, a radical act of cultural preservation. This documentary follows his unwaveri...

  • These Thems - Season 1

    7 Episodes

    "These Thems" is an award-winning comedy series following the lives of four friends as they navigate gender, sexuality, and the delightful messiness of New York City's queer community.

  • Two Queens In a Kitchen

    3 seasons

    Two Queens In a Kitchen is a turn-to-relevance cooking series that features a rotating cast of guest-hosts from the #OTVcommunity.

  • Mooncake

    Movie

    Mooncake is an experimental meditation on gender queerness and the blurred lines between influence, desire and obsession. The docu-fictional film revisits an unnamed subject’s childhood memory, resurfacing the nascent fantasies that once captured their imagination. What can we learn from our form...

  • Griffica
    Movie + 1 extra

    Griffica

    Movie + 1 extra

    In this 11-minute horror-thriller by C.J. Arellano, a man (James Dolbeare) suspects his perfect boyfriend (Ulysses Espinoza) is a demon in disguise.

  • Maggie Kubley: Come Over

    Movie

    Laura is frantically trying to get ready for an unexpected booty call when she finds herself transported into a magical forest of trippy sensuality and fairy-fueled self exploration. Suddenly the booty call is the last thing on her mind.

    Music written by Maggie Kubley
    Performed and Produced by ...

  • GOOD ENOUGH

    2 seasons

    Attempting to hold their family together, the YGQ learns how to love and accept themselves as they navigate secret hook-ups, mental-crises and a series of scandalous shenanigans. But as the tight-knit clique attempts to heal from previous traumas they must collectively face the consequences that ...

  • Damaged Goods

    1 season

    Barely surviving the city of Chicago, Damaged Goods centers around four messy young adults will experience a complete loss of self-identity, which propels them onto a path of uncertainty.

  • Brewer

    Movie

    As four female and non-binary brewers navigate their way through the beer crafting process, they also maneuver an environment rife with sexism and racism. Juxtaposing poetic visuals of the brewing process with reflections on sexism, BREWER, confronts the everyday biases that challenge people in w...

  • Darling Shear - Season 2

    9 Episodes

    Darling Shear, is a docuseries by Diana Quiñones Rivera, that follows Darling Shear as she choreographs a piece for 6 dancers rooted in the tradition of Hollywood musicals. Through rehearsals, everyday life, and performances, Darling Shear presents a hilarious perspective to the world of dance ma...

  • Easy Abby
    2 seasons

    Easy Abby

    2 seasons

    Abby likes women. And sex. A lot. Abby can tune into the needs of her many lovers, but she’s full of anxiety otherwise. So she stays busy juggling affairs, friends, and her bipolar Mother. She dreams of
    living in Costa Rica and studying coral reefs, but Abby has yet to leave the Midwest.

  • Been T/Here

    1 season

    How do trans* people of color thrive? Join Chicagoans on their journey to find love, creativity, and healing in BeenT/Here. America may be discovering trans* people, but they've been here all along. Peel back the hype to share genuine moments with a nerdy immigrant, a kinky organizer, a catholic ...

  • THANDO
    Movie + 1 extra

    THANDO

    Movie + 1 extra

    After Reza, a non-binary rising performing artist from a township in Soweto, begins to settle into Johannesburg when Mase, a writer struggling to understand his identity, unexpectedly arrives into his life. Through their brief introduction they suddenly begin to reveal intimate vulnerabilities th...

  • Noodles & Incense

    Movie

    “Noodles represent our lives. The longer they are, the more years we have. They separate and tangle, only to come together once more in the broth… The smoke rises to the heavens, and blurs the lines between life and death.”

    When Amy finds out that her girlfriend Megan is moving across the countr...

  • Bros Before

    Movie

    A campy sexy comedy about a trans man's gay awakening created by Henry Hanson.

    Elijah and Billy are two trans bros who just happen to enjoy jerking off together -- in a straight way! But when Billy starts dating a woman -- the intimidating, sharp-tongued Grace -- Elijah must come to terms with ...