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
  • Spies in Corsets

    Movie

    After three months of careful preparation, it’s finally the night to carry out their mission. Marcy and Odi ready themselves to attend the 18th century ball of an overtly rich prison owner. If riding the high stakes of disabling his plans were not enough, their unprofessional feelings for each ot...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Is 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.

  • 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 ...

  • 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).

  • FORCE! Presents Cadenza Screening with Open Panel Discussion

    Movie

    Recording of the livestream is available on-demand until 3/16/22.

    Cadenza is a musical film about Black women and femmes in the visitors' waiting rooms of a prison. Directed by Anna Martine Whitehead and Wills Glasspiegel, the film extends and documents FORCE!, an opera-in-progress by Whitehead,...

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Mi Coro (My Crew)

    Movie

    Set in a surreal, hyperbolic reality, ‘Mi Coro’ features interviews with a variety of Latin American voguers fail to communicate with a new alien species known as the "cis-heterosexuals".

  • 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 ...

  • Jake Speikers: Nostalgic

    Movie + 1 extra

    Still not over a past relationship, a singer looks back on his memories through a VHS tapes to reconcile his nostalgia over lost love.

    Production Company: Bouy Flms (@bouyfilms)
    Dir/Dp/Editor: Ricardo Bouyett (@ricbouy)
    Line Producer/Production Designer: Daisy Cardenas (@DaysDC)
    Set Designer/PA:...

  • Choose Me: An Abortion Story

    1 season

    A Chicago-based web series about a single, non-monogamous, queer woman who does not want to be a mother.

  • Jack and Anna
    Movie + 1 extra

    Jack and Anna

    Movie + 1 extra

    Sapphic period drama by Ksenia Naughton.

    Based on true events from the early 1900s, Jack and Anna tells the story of a young couple whose happy life on their farm is suddenly shattered when Jack’s biggest secret is revealed: the fact that he is a woman named Helen. After the revelation, Helen is...

  • Inertia

    Movie

    Inertia is a visual musical experience by Brandon Markell Holmes. An exploration of black thought, existence & trauma ; through the lens of [MODERN Technological Narcissism]&[The Civil Rights Movement] - into the premature journey of Black JOY , acceptance, Existential tyranny , Religion , Binary...

  • 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...

  • Recovered
    1 season

    Recovered

    1 season

    After leaving rehab, Chuck, a trashy trans-masc narcissist, feels ready to turn a new page – only to make an even bigger mess of their already f*cked-up life

  • jaxwillbejax: Too Young

    Movie

    A wicked dessert is enjoyed in a dream world.