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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  • 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.

  • CCTV - Season 1

    3 Episodes

    Club Chicago Television, or CCTV

    a network where you can tune into a different queer club night every week.

    Over the summer of 2020, CCTV aimed to broadcast Chicago parties, DJs, performers, and organizations that are leading and shaping the way to a brighter future in Chicago. Each broadcast f...

  • 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.

  • Handsome
    1 season

    Handsome

    1 season

    Romantic comedy series by Devon Kane.

    After leaving a 10-year relationship, Devon has to navigate through a dating scene he knows nothing about - getting up to speed with things like dating apps, OnlyFans and being called DADDY, to name a few. When Devon meets Gabriel however, all of this falls...

  • The Exorcism of Mary Magdalene: A Divine Intervention

    Movie

    The Exorcism of Mary Magdalene: A Divine Intervention is an exploration of belonging, through a liminal state of placelessness. Through the iconography of Mary Magdalene and their narrative contextualities, I resurrect the archival yet contemporary transgenerational reckonings & beckoning's of di...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • #BraveFuturesJOBURG

    7 items

    Brave Futures Film Race challenges creatives, filmmakers and storytellers of all skills levels to produce a film in 48 hours or less.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • ELEMENTS

    Movie

    Five dancers, five styles, five expressions of masculinity conjured through an element of nature. Air, water, ether, fire and earth combine to impress the memory of an abandoned steel mill into the natural world it now resides.

  • TRANSFINITE

    Movie

    TRANSFINITE is a sci-fi omnibus feature film composed of seven standalone short stories where supernatural trans and queer people from various cultures use their powers to protect, love, teach, fight and thrive.

  • MANIFOLD
    Movie + 5 extras

    MANIFOLD

    Movie + 5 extras

    Series premieres on OTV on November 17th.

    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 ...

  • Lee Baby
    Movie + 2 extras

    Lee Baby

    Movie + 2 extras

    Lee, a trans man, and his wife Charlie are smack dab in the middle of creating a family. Insecurities, hormone imbalances, and the exhaustion of new parenthood test the limits of this resilient queer couple.

  • Across, Beyond, and Over

    Movie

    A hybrid documentary about two estranged trans men who used to date in middle school reconnecting over a long weekend to develop a film about their past. Through the pre-production process and writing exercises, they are forced to reconcile the differences in how they want to portray themselves, ...

  • The T
    1 season

    The T

    1 season

    Former-lovers-and-now-best-friends Jo and Carter are looking for love--it’s not going well. A young white trans woman and queer Black man living in their native Chicago, they may have the world’s bigotry and their own insecurities stacked against them, but at least they have each other.

    Series c...

  • 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...

  • Night Night

    1 season

    A recovering alcoholic gets blackmailed into contract killing to save his family from scandal, shaking his hold over his sobriety and his life in general.

  • The Secret Life of Dandelions

    Movie

    The Secret Life of Dandelions is a song about resilience and about making it through tight spaces. This song is a part of Roy Kinsey's 11th album, "Dandelions: Gods Don't Cry," which released April 25, 2025.

  • "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.

  • Starving Artists

    1 season

    Chicago comedy duo Aasia and Dewayne go to extravagant lengths to reach their goals of international stardom and complete world domination. A show about being young, gifted, and black in a world that praises straight, white, and wack.

  • The Commons

    2 seasons

    "The Commons" is a feminist, public access-style, morning talk show crafted for witches, by witches.

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...