LGBTQ+ Shorts

LGBTQ+ Shorts

8 Episodes

Stories of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and the simple but radical, often dangerous act of just existing as a queer person are on display in these empathetic and innovative shorts, which reflect the wide spectrum of experiences that make up the LGBTQ+ rainbow.

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LGBTQ+ Shorts

8 Episodes

  • Transeltown
    19:51
    Transeltown
    Episode 1

    Transeltown

    Episode 1

    Directed by Myra Paci • 1992 • United States
    Starring Myra Paci, Carter Burwell, Dina Emerson

    Dante transported to Times Square: a morbid and tender love story begins when a lonely girl drags home the naked body of a comatose, genital-less blonde woman.

  • Blood Below the Skin
    32:54
    Blood Below the Skin
    Episode 2

    Blood Below the Skin

    Episode 2

    Directed by Jennifer Reeder • 2015 • Canada
    Starring Kelsey Ashby-Middleton, Morgan S. Reesh, Marissa Castillo

    Countdown to prom night is actually countdown to irreversible change for three girls. While two of them fall in love with each other against all expectations, the third is forced to mot...

  • 100 Boyfriends Mixtape
    08:38
    100 Boyfriends Mixtape
    Episode 3

    100 Boyfriends Mixtape

    Episode 3

    Directed by Brontez Purnell • 2016 • United States

    In Brontez Purnell’s “video mixtape,” unlikely antihero DeShawn—an HIV-positive Black gay man haunted by the ghosts of 100 men—relates his philosophy of the world to an unknown caller on his landline while magically shrink-fitting a new pair of ...

  • Call Your Father
    19:11
    Call Your Father
    Episode 4

    Call Your Father

    Episode 4

    Directed by Jordan Firstman • 2016 • United States
    Starring Craig Chester, Jordan Firstman

    Usually a reserved guy, Greg struggles to keep up with young, unpredictable Josh on their first date. But as things heat up and spiral out of control, the two men must confront the generational divide that...

  • Walk for Me
    11:34
    Walk for Me
    Episode 5

    Walk for Me

    Episode 5

    Directed by Elegance Bratton • 2016 • United States
    Starring Aaliyah King, Yolonda Ross, Brenda Holder

    A teenager explores her transgender identity through voguing and ball culture—but is her mom ready to accept her for who she is?

  • Flores
    27:54
    Flores
    Episode 6

    Flores

    Episode 6

    Directed by Jorge Jácome • 2017 • Portugal
    Starring André Andrade, Gabriel Desplanque, Jorge Jácome

    Drenched in lysergic lavender, this sci-fi pseudo-documentary is both a dreamy vision of ecological apocalypse and a tender queer love story set on an island in the Azores overrun by endlessly pro...

  • The Red Tree
    21:53
    The Red Tree
    Episode 7

    The Red Tree

    Episode 7

    Directed by Paul Rowley • 2018 • Italy
    Starring Leo Gullotta

    This haunting, lyrical documentary recounts the long untold story of gay men who were imprisoned on a remote island by Mussolini’s Fascist regime in the 1930s.

  • Dirty
    10:59
    Dirty
    Episode 8

    Dirty

    Episode 8

    Directed by Matthew Puccini • 2020 • United States
    Starring Morgan Sullivan, Manny Dunn

    High school boyfriends Marco and Graham cut class for a romantic rendezvous in bed—but things don’t go quite as planned in this tender, emotionally raw snapshot of two queer teenagers navigating intimacy toge...

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