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
  • #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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Emergence

    Movie

    College freshman Tori arrives at college shortly after the pandemic and still carries trauma from her conservative high school. Tori is a transgender athlete and faces crippling gender dysphoria in various social situations, such as changing in locker rooms and making new friends. As a result, To...

  • jaxwillbejax: Wanderlust

    Movie + 1 extra

    Woman faces aspects of her grief while driving through Chicago.

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Commons

    2 seasons

    "The Commons" is a feminist, public access-style, morning talk show crafted for witches, by witches.

  • 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.

  • The Real Dance: A Micro Reality TV Show

    1 season

    The Real Dance: A Micro Reality TV Show is a web series that approaches contemporary dancemaking through the low-stakes, high-investment aesthetic & entertainment lens of reality TV, focusing on the daily lives, dramas, and backstories of people who make dance, with a particular focus on queer an...

  • 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...

  • Hook Ups
    1 season

    Hook Ups

    1 season

    Black queers date and fall in lust.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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).

  • J Bambii: CHAOS
    Movie + 1 extra

    J Bambii: CHAOS

    Movie + 1 extra

    Produced by Brain Studios in Association with Birchman Productions

    “CHAOS” centers the life of Young Jasmine, a high school junior grappling with the complexities of love, identity, and societal pressures such as colorism, fat-phobia and desirability politics at a young age. The video
    is divided...

  • If I Was Your Girl - Collection

    2 seasons

    A collection of films and series in the If I Was Your Girl universe by Coquie Hughes.

    IF I WAS YOUR GIRL is an intense pressure cooker drama centered on the chaotic affair between two interrelated lesbian couples. The story first chronicles the mentally draining relationship between Lynn and St...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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:...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Lee Baby
    Movie + 2 extras

    Lee Baby

    Movie + 2 extras

    Lee, a trans man, and his wife Charlie are smack dab in the middle of creating a family. Insecurities, hormone imbalances, and the exhaustion of new parenthood test the limits of this resilient queer couple.

  • The T
    1 season

    The T

    1 season

    Former-lovers-and-now-best-friends Jo and Carter are looking for love--it’s not going well. A young white trans woman and queer Black man living in their native Chicago, they may have the world’s bigotry and their own insecurities stacked against them, but at least they have each other.

    Series c...