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
  • Reckless Spirits

    Movie

    A gender-fluid Latine performance artist and a neurotic Asian American therapist are led by a series of uncanny circumstances into a world of ancestor spirits, psychics, and a cult leader who is threatening to tear their friendship apart.

    Created by 2022 #OTVFellow Vee Hua.

  • Low Strung
    2 seasons

    Low Strung

    2 seasons

    Season 2 now streaming on OTV.

    Shervin and Victoria experience a number of mini-adventures smattered with elements of the surreal, often blurring the lines themselves using mind-altering drugs. This lends a fresh, satirical, and often perplexing way for the viewer to vicariously experience tind...

  • 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...

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    CONTENT WARNING: sexual content, vulgar/oppressive language, blood/gore

    A disillusioned human/vampire hybrid, takes on escorting to survive a changing society.

    Horror drama short by Kyle Hinton.

    Kyle is an unapologetically Black nonbinary screenwriter from the suburbs of Chicago, who aspires...

  • Choose Me: An Abortion Story

    1 season

    A Chicago-based web series about a single, non-monogamous, queer woman who does not want to be a mother.

  • 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 ...

  • #OTVretrospective

    1 season

    OTV Retrospective is a reflection on the past five years of the organization’s journey. Co-founders Dr. Aymar Jean Christian and Elijah McKinnon take viewers on a cinematic tour of its humble beginnings as a research project answering the simple question “do intersectional stories matter?”

    The ...

  • Sleep'her

    Movie

    Short film created by and starring #OTVAtlas Ambassador Makeda M. Declet.

    Diane is grieving. Her mom passed away and now she hates the world. After her car is towed, a down-on-her-luck Uber Eats driver signs up for a mysterious new gig App.

  • Kissing Walls

    2 seasons

    Kissing Walls is a romantic comedy that follows two friends as they struggle to build their careers while simultaneously navigating the ever-evolving and often complicated “new rules” of 21st century dating as queer men of color.

  • jaxwillbejax: Too Young

    Movie

    A wicked dessert is enjoyed in a dream world.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Andrew In Anotherland

    Movie

    A voice bigger than the stage, Andrew Sa has been surprising audiences in small clubs for years but what he has planned for a Millennium Park debut is even larger. As part of the city’s Year of Chicago Music, and the Millennium Park Music Series, CIVL (Chicago Independent Venue League) has invite...

  • "Ki Change" Playlist

    10 items

    A collection of projects by musicians, filmmakers, and storytellers who are pushing boundaries and using music videos to redefine media-making and genre-defying art.

  • 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.

  • Brewer (Coming November 6)

    Movie

    Creators: Erika Valenciana - Director, Anuradha Rana - Producer, Magdalena Hernandez - Editor

    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 proce...

  • 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...

  • Assigned Female at Birth, a queer web series about some bodies

    3 seasons

    Assigned Female at Birth, originally fueled by the remote filming techniques and devised construction necessitated by the pandemic, blends mockumentary grid choruses with narrative storytelling in representing outlier identities in the queer community. The 35 characters, like their real-life coun...

  • In Real Life

    1 season

    Four millennial best friends stumble their way into adulthood amidst shifting identities, relationships, and questions of what it means to be there for your friends and community.

  • F*ck Yes

    1 season

    F*ck Yes is a modern sex-ed series focused on improving communication (and sex) between consenting adults. In this episode, a couple negotiates a threesome.

  • Spies in Corsets

    Movie

    After three months of careful preparation, it’s finally the night to carry out their mission. Marcy and Odi ready themselves to attend the 18th century ball of an overtly rich prison owner. If riding the high stakes of disabling his plans were not enough, their unprofessional feelings for each ot...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Country Love

    Movie

    Short film by Wapah Ezeigwe now streaming on OTV.

    A queer man returns home after 15 years only to discover that there is no reason for him to stay.