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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Take Me to the Queers
  • Two 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Sexuality Out Loud - The Dating Edition

    1 season

    Four classmates find themselves on deep dive game show -- equal parts educational and pleasurable for the sake of pleasure. Meanwhile, another student, Kaia, gets some life-changing news. Enter an interactive environment where young people have deeper conversations about sex, sexuality, and repro...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sleep'her

    Movie

    Short film created by and starring #OTVAtlas Ambassador Makeda M. Declet.

    Diane is grieving. Her mom passed away and now she hates the world. After her car is towed, a down-on-her-luck Uber Eats driver signs up for a mysterious new gig App.

  • 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.

  • JustLatasha's Inner Actions

    1 season

    A sketch comedy series from a Black Bi woman's sense by 2022 #OTVFellow Latasha Mercer.

    "Latasha" is not essentially real; she's a universally different character in each sketch, however all named Latasha. The series grabs her PoV on queerness, dating, and Black culture spoofs as a Black Bi wom...

  • 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...

  • Black Queer Futures

    Movie

    Poetry Narrative by Femi Adebowale.

    Black Queer Futures asks the question of what young Black Queer people could be if they had access to limitless inspiration. Through Simi, we see the power of showing young Black Queer people that they have infinite possibility and power in who they want to be.

  • Kissing Walls

    2 seasons

    Kissing Walls is a romantic comedy that follows two friends as they struggle to build their careers while simultaneously navigating the ever-evolving and often complicated “new rules” of 21st century dating as queer men of color.

  • Yna NA: emma

    Movie

    *Starring:* Yna and Cee Pham
    *Directed by:* Sophie Chevako and Yna
    *Produced by:* Cee Pham
    *Assistant Directors:*
    Cee Pham & Mariana Belaval (Day One)
    Teya Sainz de Aja (Day Two)
    *Choreographer:* Emily Rivera De La Cruz
    *Cinematographer: *Sophie Chevako
    *Gaffer/AC: *Evan Thompson
    *Grips/Acs: *Osc...

  • Martin 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Return
    Movie + 1 extra

    The Return

    Movie + 1 extra

    A writer-director struggles with her profound sense of loss after the sudden death of her father, who dies while visiting his homeland of India. Hena wrestles with coming to terms with their strained relationship, by the only way she knows how: making a film.

    Dharamshala International Film Festi...

  • Jasmin Taylor: Again

    Movie + 1 extra

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Chestbound

    Movie

    A drama about healing, acceptance, and forgiveness by Janine Anne Uyanga.

    Following Ray's top surgery, intimate moments with their chosen family are interrupted by the news of their father's stroke, but returning home to see him would mean confronting Ray's estranged mother.