Take Me to the Queers: LGBTQ+ Narratives

Take Me to the Queers: LGBTQ+ Narratives

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

Take Me to the Queers: LGBTQ+ Narratives
  • Starving Artists (S1, E3)

    Chicago comedy duo Aasia and Dewayne go to extravagant lengths to reach their goals of international stardom and complete world domination. A show about being young, gifted, and black in a world that praises straight, white, and wack.

    Created by and starring Dewayne Perkins and Aasia Bullock

    //...

  • Kissing Walls - Season 1 Trailer

    Kissing Walls is a rom-com about two friends struggling with careers & dating as queer men of color.

  • Kissing Walls - Season One Pilot

    Kissing Walls is a 3-part comedy that explores work, sex, and friendship between queer 20-somethings living in Chicago. Starring Zak Payne and Nathaniel Tenenbaum.

    An official selection of the 2016 IFP Screen Forward program.

    // CREW //

    Zak Payne // Writer, director, producer
    Mike Weldon // Di...

  • Kissing Walls - Season 2 Trailer

  • Kissing Walls (S2, E1)

  • Kissing Walls (S2, E2)

  • Kissing Walls (S2, E3)

  • Kissing Walls (S2, E4)

  • Kissing Walls (S2, E5)

  • Kissing Walls (S2, E6)

  • F*ck Yes - Fingers (S1, E1)

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

    //CAST & CREW//
    Writers: Julie Keck & Jessica King
    Director: Emily Best
    Cinematographer: Eve M. Cohen
    Editor: Jessica King
    Starring: Marnie A...

  • F*ck Yes - Threesome (S1, E2)

    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.

    //CAST & CREW//
    Writers: Julie Keck & Jessica King
    Director: Jessica King
    Cinematographer: Hannah Welever
    Editor: Jessica King
    Starring: Da...

  • F*ck Yes - Bucket List (S1, E3)

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

    //CAST & CREW//
    Writers: Julie Keck & Jessica King
    Director: Jessica King
    Cinematographer: Hannah Welever
    Editor: Jessica King
    Starrin...

  • Hair Story - Teaser

    “Hair Story” is a pilot for a web series that follows a group of Chicagoans in their everyday lives as they try to keep their co-op open and in their dreams, blending sitcom and music video.

    // SONG //
    Chae Buttah - "Shady Fat"
    Released on Futurehood -- http://futurehood.net

  • Hair Story - Pilot Concept

    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....

  • Roy Kinsey: B-SAYF - Teaser

    A teaser for the music video for B-SAYF (B!tch She Ain't Yo Friend) by Roy Kinsey off his new album, "blackie."

  • Roy Kinsey: BSAYF

    In this music video, Saya Naomi​ is faced with the reality that the person she thought was her friend is not. Through pain and spirituality, she finds true friendship and togetherness with her community. Roy Kinsey plays her intuition, her guide from shadow to light.

    // TRACK //

    Apple: https:/...

  • Sur La Nuit

    A soliloquy to the night, reflecting on love, loss, and identity. presented thru the lens of otherness - queer identity, race, familial dynamics, gender, and access into classical art forms.

    //CAST & CREW//
    ALEXA GRÆ - Artist/Composer
    Jon Wes - Creator/Videographer/Editor
    Matthew Ozawa - Creat...

  • If I Was Your Girl (2012) - Trailer

    Time will always reveal the true essence of a person. A 2012 film by Coquie Hughes.

  • If I Was Your Girl (2012)

    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 Stacia who have been dating for only a few months. Stacia is hopelessly in love with Lynn,...

  • If I Was Your Girl - Web series Episodes 1-3 (2012)

    IF I WAS YOUR GIRL is an intense pressure-cooker drama centered on the chaotic affair between two interrelated lesbian couples.

  • If I Was Your Girl Again (2019)

    A happily married yet utterly bored couple befriend an alluring new neighbor and discover their temptress is actually a jilted lover seeking an obsessive revenge on the couple. Starring: Jai Simba, Felice Tamara J, and Ayesha Nguyen.

    NOTE: IF I WAS YOUR GIRL AGAIN, the spin-off movie is based o...

  • If I Was Your Girl - Web series, Episode 10 (2013)

    It all comes down to this. The highly anticipated series finale of If I Was Your Girl.

    IF I WAS YOUR GIRL is an intense pressure-cooker drama centered on the chaotic affair between two interrelated lesbian couples.

  • If I Wuz Yo Gyrl Doubleheader (2001)

    Two films by Coquie Hughes: 'If I Wuz Yo Gyrl' The Short and 'If I Wuz Yo Gyrl' The Work In Progress.

    The work in progress begins at 36:12.