Take Me to the Queers
Explore OTV's rich, intersectional content through these programs that center LGBTQ+ experiences.
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1 seasonQuare 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)
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6 itemsIf I Was Your Girl - Collection
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A collection of films by Coquie Hughes.
People let you see what they want you to see when you first meet them, but time always reveal the true essence of a person.
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2 seasonsLow 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...
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MovieVisibility Sucks!
Movie
Visibility Sucks is a 24-hour glimpse into the life of an artist suffering from a major identity crisis after a global pandemic sends him plummeting from the limelight to working in a grocery store. Shard, the protagonist, takes the viewer on a surreal journey as he tries his best to regain a sen...
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MovieIs Anybody Out There?
Movie
In this stylized movement opera, our heroes navigate sexuality, gender, and isolation as they try to make contact with the outside world through dance, prose, & music.
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Movie + 1 extraGriffica
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.
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"Queer, As In" Collection - Playlist
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In a world of fabricated borders and an endless churn of imposed mandates, ‘Queer As in’ carves another way forward - one shaped not by prescription, but by possibility. This drop holds space for stories that stretch beyond the boundaries of what we’ve been told is real, reasonable, or sanctioned...
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Movie + 1 extraJasmin Taylor: Again
Movie + 1 extra
For all women in time. A visual love letter through eras—on silence, selfhood, and choosing again.
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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...
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1 seasonNight 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.
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Movie + 1 extraAngela Townsend: I Said, No
Movie + 1 extra
Latin soul music video by Angela Townsend. A young woman and her friends teach a man to respect her "no".
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1 seasonSymbiotic
1 season
Series created by Rachel Greenhoe about young queer people with invisible (and visible) disabilities trying to make their way in Chicago.
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Movie + 1 extraBlack Pill
Movie + 1 extra
In a near-future techno-dystopia, a trans shut-in named Ven orders a box of pills off a shady website that promises to make their aberrant and strange fantasies a reality.
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MovieReckless 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.
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3 seasonsTwo 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.
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If I Was Your Girl - Collection
2 seasons
A collection of films and series in the If I Was Your Girl universe by Coquie Hughes.
IF I WAS YOUR GIRL is an intense pressure cooker drama centered on the chaotic affair between two interrelated lesbian couples. The story first chronicles the mentally draining relationship between Lynn and St...
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Movie + 1 extrajaxwillbejax: Wanderlust
Movie + 1 extra
Woman faces aspects of her grief while driving through Chicago.
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1 seasonFemme Queen Chronicles
1 season
Series created by and starring Ahya Simone.
Four black trans women navigate through love, life, shade, and trade in the city of Detroit.
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MovieMartin Levy: Candy Girl
Movie
"Candy" is the pop persona (or character) created by multidisciplinary artist Martin Levy. The first single off of the Candy project, "Candy Girl", gets a video as enthralling, exciting and energetic as the song. Through different iterations of Candy, from her birth self to her death self, we enc...
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MovieProdigal Sun
Movie
Soon after Evelyn realizes she is transgender, her parents sense she is simultaneously experiencing mental illness. As Evelyn struggles for independence, afraid of losing herself to her role in her nuclear family, her parents must fight to keep her safe. Prodigal Sun explores this conflict from b...
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1 seasonHotline
1 season
Hotline is a murder mystery about Attorney Hazel Clarke. She is a straitlaced perfectionist who only cares about winning court cases. That all changes when her estranged sister Chelsea shows up. Hazel wrestles Chelsea out of her house but not her life. Soon after their reunion, Chelsea's dead bod...
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MovieFlock
Movie
Flock is a trans-created dramatic thriller about a man traveling to Maine to rescue his lover from a lethal cult.
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1 season#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 ...
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Movie + 1 extraTwo Ways of Being Lonely (Dos Soledades)
Movie + 1 extra
Pablo is in love with his best friend Héctor, but must console him for a breakup and be his shoulder to cry on. This story is familiar to Alam, who seeks to prevent his friend from falling into a game that seems to repeat itself frequently.
