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
  • From X to Z

    Movie

    Short film coming by Florencia Manóvil.

    A cranky Gen X butch is forced to spend time with a disaffected zoomer who seems to represent everything that bugs her about "kids today".

  • 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...

  • Stress Fracture

    Movie

    CONTENT WARNING: Nudity, Suicide

    Space and time distort within the splintering mind of a young transgender woman as her relationship slips away from her. Six months after a suicide attempt, Grace feels another psychotic break coming on. She tries to hide her mental instability from her trans par...

  • 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...

  • 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!

  • Symbiotic
    1 season

    Symbiotic

    1 season

    Series created by Rachel Greenhoe about young queer people with invisible (and visible) disabilities trying to make their way in Chicago.

  • Blaq In Bed

    2 seasons

    Come with questions and leave with answers. Blaq In Bed has been intentionally designed to provide folks with tips, resources and bravery needed to navigate complex spaces and discussions around intimacy, sex, disclosure and the fantasy.

  • Full Out
    1 season

    Full Out

    1 season

    A story of ambition, manipulation, betrayal, and self-discovery, Full Out follows a closeted dancer as she struggles to regain her glory following a devastating injury.

    Series written and directed by Jess King.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Afternoon Snatch

    1 season

    Afternoon Snatch is an unapologetically queer web comedy about heartbreak and the importance of community.

  • 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...

  • Prodigy
    Movie + 1 extra

    Prodigy

    Movie + 1 extra

    A music film featuring two songs from Jude Grant's album "Protagony" exploring his journey in surrendering his expectations when it comes to love and romance.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Night Night

    1 season

    A recovering alcoholic gets blackmailed into contract killing to save his family from scandal, shaking his hold over his sobriety and his life in general.

  • Country Love

    Movie

    Short film by Wapah Ezeigwe now streaming on OTV.

    A queer man returns home after 15 years only to discover that there is no reason for him to stay.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • WIZDOM
    Movie + 1 extra

    WIZDOM

    Movie + 1 extra

    Without daylight, humans live with bionic ocular implants in medical colonies run by WIZDOM biotech.

    WIZDOM FILM CREDITS:
    Directed by Layne Marie Williams
    Written by Ashton Giaume & Zack Sievers
    Created by Ashton Giaume, Zack Sievers, Layne Marie Williams
    Executive Producers Alex Pissios, Stanle...