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
  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Visibility 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...

  • Lipstick City
    Movie + 1 extra

    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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • It's Not You. It's Me: Chicago - Season 1

    1 Episode

    In this award-winning, proof-of-concept for a new dating docuseries, “It’s Not You. It’s Me: Chicago” (INYIM) follows three bachelors as they re-embark into the dating scene -- some for the first time and others hopefully for their last! While receiving expert guidance on healthy communication, s...

  • Quare 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)
    Dru Monta...

  • Reggie Davis: SIMULACRUM

    Movie

    A Virtual reality designed so the mind and body can’t differentiate virtual experiences from real.

  • F*ck Yes

    1 season

    F*ck Yes is a modern sex-ed series focused on improving communication (and sex) between consenting adults. In this episode, a couple negotiates a threesome.

  • Damaged Goods

    1 season

    Barely surviving the city of Chicago, Damaged Goods centers around four messy young adults will experience a complete loss of self-identity, which propels them onto a path of uncertainty.

  • Hook Ups
    1 season

    Hook Ups

    1 season

    Black queers date and fall in lust.

  • "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.

  • These Thems - Season 1

    7 Episodes

    "These Thems" is an award-winning comedy series following the lives of four friends as they navigate gender, sexuality, and the delightful messiness of New York City's queer community.

  • 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.

  • Pink & Blue
    Movie + 1 extra

    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...

  • Oríkì Oshun

    Movie + 1 extra

    Oríkì Oshun is an experimental short film that honors the Orisha Oshun, a central figure in Yoruba cosmology and spirituality. Rooted in the Yoruba tradition of oríkì—a performative act of praise that invokes the essence, attributes, and destiny of a person, place, or deity—this film reimagines t...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Choc
    Movie

    Choc

    Movie

    Aubrey “Choc” Muldrow grew up in a religious family on the Southside of Chicago. Knowing he was gay from an early age, he experienced taunts, threats, and violence from his family, his church, and his neighborhood. Fearing he was cursed, and would never be perceived as “normal,” he did everything...

  • 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.

  • IS TOMORROW WEDNESDAY?

    Movie

    Directed by Queer, BIPOC Cavair Robinson, IS TOMORROW WEDNESDAY? is a nonlinear narrative, detailing the 24 hour period of events within the life of Peach Fuzz, a scrappy transient drifter who does whatever it takes to survive while living on the streets of a small Indiana town. After reconnectin...

  • LDR
    1 season

    LDR

    1 season

    Romantic comedy series created by Rey Tang.

    When struggling comedian Emma chooses to move to Chicago, she grapples with reconciling her decision with the six hours of distance between her and her girlfriend Liv back home. LDR follows Emma’s difficulties in fighting for her long-distance relatio...

  • 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.