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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  • Forked Tongue
    Movie + 1 extra

    Forked Tongue

    Movie + 1 extra

    Short film by Melanie Ojwang now streaming.

    After moving back in with her overbearing mom, a recently unemployed 20-something starts creating juicy audio erotica under a male pseudonym and struggles to keep her identity and her hobby a secret when her fanbase explodes.

  • The Real Dance: A Micro Reality TV Show

    1 season

    The Real Dance: A Micro Reality TV Show is a web series that approaches contemporary dancemaking through the low-stakes, high-investment aesthetic & entertainment lens of reality TV, focusing on the daily lives, dramas, and backstories of people who make dance, with a particular focus on queer an...

  • MANIFOLD
    Movie + 5 extras

    MANIFOLD

    Movie + 5 extras

    Manifold is an experimental anthology docuseries exploring the nuances of Black and Queer identity. This collaborative production platforms the creative works and visions of poets, performers, organizers, musicians, and more -- to express the real life experiences of Chicago’s Black LGBTQ+ commun...

  • Jake Speikers: Nostalgic

    Movie + 1 extra

    Still not over a past relationship, a singer looks back on his memories through a VHS tapes to reconcile his nostalgia over lost love.

    Production Company: Bouy Flms (@bouyfilms)
    Dir/Dp/Editor: Ricardo Bouyett (@ricbouy)
    Line Producer/Production Designer: Daisy Cardenas (@DaysDC)
    Set Designer/PA:...

  • How to L0ve

    1 season

    How to L0ve is a comedic web series following a group of teenagers who reunite to work as ball people at their community’s local tennis tournament.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Brown Girls

    1 season

    Brown Girls is an intimate story of the friendship between two women of color. While Leila and Patricia come from completely different backgrounds, their friendship is ultimately what they lean on to get through the messiness of their mid-twenties.

  • Oríkì Oshun

    Movie

    Oríkì Oshun is an experimental short film that honors the Orisha Oshun, a central figure in Yoruba cosmology and spirituality. Rooted in the Yoruba tradition of oríkì—a performative act of praise that invokes the essence, attributes, and destiny of a person, place, or deity—this film reimagines t...

  • 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...

  • Jasmin Taylor: Again

    Movie + 1 extra

    For all women in time. A visual love letter through eras—on silence, selfhood, and choosing again.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Beware of the Leopard

    Movie

    At a buzzing Hollywood party, guests discover a shocking revelation: the charismatic A-list actor among them is a sexual predator. As the truth unfolds, the women are hunted in surreal interludes. Together, they take a stand against an abuser shrouded in fame and mystique.

    The cast includes Vico...

  • 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 ...

  • J Bambii: CHAOS
    Movie + 1 extra

    J Bambii: CHAOS

    Movie + 1 extra

    Produced by Brain Studios in Association with Birchman Productions

    “CHAOS” centers the life of Young Jasmine, a high school junior grappling with the complexities of love, identity, and societal pressures such as colorism, fat-phobia and desirability politics at a young age. The video
    is divided...

  • For Better

    1 season

    For Better is the romantic dramedy reinvented. An anthology series; each episode focuses on a different couple in their slice of life.

  • Queer Khalifa

    Movie

    Inayat, a hijab-wearing cis woman, and Abdullah, a trans man, meet after ten years and try to make their teenage romance sustain cultural pressures. They have little time to address their differences- she's getting married to Musa this weekend.

  • 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.

  • Black Girl Magic

    4 seasons

    Black Girl Magic is a drag show starring a lineup of all black performers. Queens pay tribute to important black women with a diverse showcase that captures the breadth of talents and creativity within black drag community. Tune in LIVE with The Vixen every month!

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • WIZDOM
    Movie + 1 extra

    WIZDOM

    Movie + 1 extra

    Without daylight, humans live with bionic ocular implants in medical colonies run by WIZDOM biotech.

    WIZDOM FILM CREDITS:
    Directed by Layne Marie Williams
    Written by Ashton Giaume & Zack Sievers
    Created by Ashton Giaume, Zack Sievers, Layne Marie Williams
    Executive Producers Alex Pissios, Stanle...

  • Prodigy
    Movie + 1 extra

    Prodigy

    Movie + 1 extra

    A music film featuring two songs from Jude Grant's album "Protagony" exploring his journey in surrendering his expectations when it comes to love and romance.