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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  • 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.

  • Pilot, Artist Profiles, and Premieres

    7 Episodes

    "Vogua" is much more than a television pilot introducing new characters and worlds. Shot in Pilsen at Junio's apartment and studio, "Vogua" showcases artists with diverse talents and skills. In addition to featuring Junio's yoga practice, the story also shows their original artworks. Wallace chor...

  • jaxwillbejax: Too Young

    Movie

    A wicked dessert is enjoyed in a dream world.

  • The Right Swipe

    1 season

    When best friends India and Margo team up to start the Right Swipe, a business fixing men’s dating profiles, they have only three rules:

    One: They must use their powers for good. Two: They charge on a sliding scale. Three: They can’t sleep with their clients. Or date them. Or flirt with them.

    U...

  • "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.

  • Serial Dreamer

    4 items

    In Hair Story, a pilot for Serial Dreamer, residents of an artsy Black co-op tell their wild stories to an out-of-work drag queen as she styles their hair to pay her rent.

    // MUSIC VIDEO / DREAM SEQUENCE //

    WATCH THE FULL VIDEO: http://www.weareo.tv/presents/bsayf

    Apple: https://itunes.apple....

  • 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.

  • This Physical World

    Movie

    Experimental narrative by Leo Kinsler.

    When Sey wakes up for the first time as a fully formed adult, they venture out into the world in search of what it means to be a person.
    Through performance and play, this film examines how language, personal experiences, and gender expectations shape our ...

  • AGENTS OF CHANGE, PROJECT: POLYMER

    Movie

    "AGENTS OF CHANGE, PROJECT: POLYMER" is a spy-genre film that centers a fully a queer and transgender cast while bringing issues facing the environment to the forefront. Rookie secret agent Guy Longani is on a take-along mission to expose the ringleader of an illegal plastic dumping scheme, but w...

  • Jasmin Taylor: Again

    Movie + 1 extra

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

  • GOOD ENOUGH

    2 seasons

    Attempting to hold their family together, the YGQ learns how to love and accept themselves as they navigate secret hook-ups, mental-crises and a series of scandalous shenanigans. But as the tight-knit clique attempts to heal from previous traumas they must collectively face the consequences that ...

  • 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...

  • jaxwillbejax: Wanderlust

    Movie + 1 extra

    Woman faces aspects of her grief while driving through Chicago.

  • Craft Service

    2 seasons

    Welcome to Craft Service.

    A talk show experience that shares recipes for nourishment, recipes for success, spells, and stories

    I believe that with imagination, play, and application, we can create the world that we want to see.

    If you believe this too this is the show for you!

    If you don't b...

  • 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.

    Award-winning TRANSFINITE (2019) has screened worldwide in 80+ festivals and educati...

  • Black Pill
    Movie + 1 extra

    Black 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.

  • Prodigal 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...

  • Anthology
    1 season

    Anthology

    1 season

    Series by Nuanse Entertainment now streaming on OTV.

    Anthology is a narrative series that follows the life-altering events of 6 twenty-somethings during one summer in New York City.

    CONTENT WARNING: profanity, excessive alcohol use, self-harm, recreational marijuana use, adult themes, death/gri...

  • Nupita Obama Creates Vogua

    1 season

    Nupita Obama follows queer artists of color as they work to secure love and housing. The pilot, “Nupita Obama Creates Vogua,” launched Open TV (beta)’s (Now known as OTV - Open Television) Open TV Presents series about artists exploring alternative relationships. The first season picks up four we...

  • 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...

  • Rough River Lake
    Movie + 1 extra

    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
    Short Film ...

  • 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 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.

  • 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...