Category: Queer media
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P is for The Pass
The Pass (2016), based on a stage play of the same name, follows the relationship between two English footballers, Jason and Ade, over the course of a decade. The film opens with the two young men, 19 years old, in a hotel room in Romania the night before their first…
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O is for Outing Riley
Outing Riley is a 2004 comedy about 30-something Bobby Riley, the youngest of four Irish Catholic brothers from Chicago, coming out to his family after their father’s death. If a death in the family seems like an inappropriate starting point for a comedy, you’ve clearly never attended an Irish funeral.…
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N is for Netflix
According to to GLAAD’s Where We Are on TV report for 2024-2025, Netflix led streaming providers for LGBTQ content, with 48% of LGBTQ characters in scripted series tracked across all streaming providers. This doesn’t include the many LGBTQ-themed movies on the streaming platform. If you’re looking for niche content, Netflix…
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M is for Merchant Ivory
Merchant Ivory Productions is an independent film production company founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant and writer-director James Ivory to produce English language films in India. Ivory is an American director, screenwriter, and producer from Oregon. Merchant was a film producer from Bombay India. They met in 1959 at…
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L is for L.A. Law
I’ve been watching L.A. Law on Hulu. I don’t think I’ve watched it since it’s original run, and what I remembered most was wild HR violations and shoulder pads. Watching it again, I’m reminded of how progressive it was. In the very first episode, one of the partners at the…
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K is for Kinky Boots
The Movie This movie wasn’t really recommended to me – it was more like I was instructed to see it. You must see this movie. You will love this movie. Which shows that my sister knows me pretty well, because I did love it. In Kinky Boots (2005), Charlie Price,…
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J is for J’ai Tue Ma Mere
J’ai Tue Ma Mere (2009) is the first feature film from Quebecois independent film maker Xavier Dolan, who was 16 when he wrote the script and 19 when he made the film. Dolan also stars in the semi-autobiographical film, as Hubert, a gay teenager at odds with his single mother.…
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I is for Ice Blues
Ice Blues (2008) is a straight-to-video mystery movie starring Chad Allen as Don Strachey, a gay private investigator based in Albany, NY and Sebastian Spence as his partner, Tim Callahan, who works in state government. A young lawyer is murdered after approaching Callahan about a large charitable donation on behalf…
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H is for Heated Rivalry
When HBO started promoting the gay hockey romance Heated Rivalry, the phrase “gay hockey romance” probably confused some folks. Not me. I have a Kindle Unlimited account; Amazon figured out I was gay a long time ago, and makes recommendations accordingly. Gay hockey romance is a whole genre. There are…
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Blogging A to Z; Queer Media
I’m doing this Blogging A to Z challenge for the month of April 2026, focusing on queer media – movies, TV, literature, etc. by, for, or about queer people. I’m using WordPress’ AI image generator. Some of the results are terrible and I’m using them anyway.
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