Take Me to the Queers
Explore OTV's rich, intersectional content through these programs that center LGBTQ+ experiences.
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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 ...
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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.
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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
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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...
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#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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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...
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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...
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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!
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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
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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...
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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...
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Just Call Me Ripley
1 season
Just Call Me Ripley is a coming out story where nobody cries! This comedic web series centers on ripley who’s group of diverse, queer, wacky friends will support her no matter what she decides about her sexuality - but that doesn’t always make things easier... (Ok maybe there’s a little crying).
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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...
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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 ...