Take Me to the Queers

Take Me to the Queers

Explore OTV's rich, intersectional content through these programs that center LGBTQ+ experiences.

Share
Take Me to the Queers
  • 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,...

  • 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 ...

  • Low Strung
    2 seasons

    Low Strung

    2 seasons

    Season 2 now streaming on OTV.

    Shervin and Victoria experience a number of mini-adventures smattered with elements of the surreal, often blurring the lines themselves using mind-altering drugs. This lends a fresh, satirical, and often perplexing way for the viewer to vicariously experience tind...

  • Encuentro

    Movie

    Drama by Florencia ManóviI.

    A night out drinking with friends turns into an eye-opening evening when young Claudia encounters the captivating foreigner Isabel, who challenges her perceptions of latinos - and her understanding of herself.

  • 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:...

  • jaxwillbejax: Too Young

    Movie

    A wicked dessert is enjoyed in a dream world.

  • REMENDO

    Movie

    Drama-comedy short created by Brazilian filmmaker, Roger Ghil.

    1ST Zé runs a repair shop where he toils over the dregs and discards of his suburban seaside town. Zé is a black bisexual middle-aged man looking for love, and facing down the traumas of colonialism to find a new kind of freedom. Bu...

  • 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.

  • "Queer, As In" Collection - Playlist

    7 items

    In a world of fabricated borders and an endless churn of imposed mandates, ‘Queer As in’ carves another way forward - one shaped not by prescription, but by possibility. This drop holds space for stories that stretch beyond the boundaries of what we’ve been told is real, reasonable, or sanctioned...

  • 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...

  • HER: a micro-série

    1 season

    Dramedy series now streaming on OTV.

    HER: a micro-série is a Coming-of-Age Dramedy about a Black Bisexual Woman who struggles with high functioning depression as she navigates her late twenties. Imani finds escape through dance, dating apps, family, & friends.

  • "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.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • jaxwillbejax: Wanderlust

    Movie + 1 extra

    Woman faces aspects of her grief while driving through Chicago.

  • Griffica
    Movie + 1 extra

    Griffica

    Movie + 1 extra

    In this 11-minute horror-thriller by C.J. Arellano, a man (James Dolbeare) suspects his perfect boyfriend (Ulysses Espinoza) is a demon in disguise.

  • 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.

  • 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 ...

  • 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.

  • ELEMENTS

    Movie

    Five dancers, five styles, five expressions of masculinity conjured through an element of nature. Air, water, ether, fire and earth combine to impress the memory of an abandoned steel mill into the natural world it now resides.

  • The Lisa B. Experience

    Movie

    Lisa B offerS a rare alternative of her incredibly popular, Unpolitical Woman Comedy Show, called the VERY POLITICAL WOMAN Comedy Show. The live show was during Black History Month, 2023.

    Powered by lululemon and #blkcreatives, Lisa Beasley, brings her comedic prowess to Tribe Supper Club to ma...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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...