Pride Media, Day 1: The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula
A horror drag competition with an element of fear factor. The cast is inclusive (season 3 has two non binary performers and a drag king) and the show is not heavily edited

Cw for discussion of sexual harassment in season 2 and depictions of sexual assault during the filth portion of the finales. Season 2 and 3 are available on Netflix

Day 2: Booksmart (2019) Dir. Olivia Wilde. A fun time that represents lesbians/wlw as normal as any teen relationship. They are not sexualized or treated as predators, either. Available on Hulu

Day 3: Pose
This show does a great job of showing ballroom culture and the people who created it: black and poc lgbtq people. Created and written by a black trans woman, it explores the issues for the community with interesting characters and good writing

Day 4: Sunstone by Stjepan Sejic. This comic explores a bdsm relationship between two women. It does an excellent job of showing readers what the community is actually like.

Day 5: Visible: Out on Television (2020) This docuseries goes through queer history throughout tv and how representation humanized us. It is not just appraisal for the rep either although I do think some shows went uncriticized when they did not deserve that treatment

Day 6: The Watermelon Woman (1996) Dir. Cheryl Dunye
The story about a black lesbian director who researches a 40s actress only credited as “watermelon woman”. Honestly there’s nothing I can say about it that hasn’t been said. Just watch it. Trust me, you won’t regret it

Day 7: Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
The McCarthy era is told through the perspective of Snagglepuss, a closeted gay writer. Cw for suicide

Day 8: Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (2020) Dir. Roman Chimienti, Tyler Jensen
A documentary about the lead of Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (Mark Patton), a gay man, and his experience working on the fan dubbed “gayest horror movie ever made” cw for homophobia

I would like to note that some queer horror fans don’t like that it is considered the gayest horror movie as it is quite homophobic. Others love the reclamation of it. I just thought that is important to note

Day 9: Radio Silence (2016) written by Alice Oseman
Plot: A young academic girl is in love with the narrative podcast, Universe City, tweeting about the subject and becoming a figurehead in the fandom. She gets a message from the anonymous creator to see if she will join

They become best friends and both find their creative and personal voices.
Rep: Main character is biracial and bisexual. Her best friend, the other character I described in the plot, is demisexual. The main character in the podcast is non binary

This book has great rep and the writing is both accessible and beautiful. I couldn’t recommend it enough

Day of 10: The Wicked +The Divine (2014-2019)
Not going to explain the plot. You should go in blind. Just know it involves gods who act like rock stars. It is an incredibly well written and diverse cast of characters. Art is inexplicably beautiful. Just read it

Day 11: so um i promised at the beginning I’d try to find more non white lgbtq content but some of these are going to be basic white cis stories and I’m sorry. It’s hard to find ones that aren’t. Today is one of those white cis stories

Rocketman (2019) Dir. Dexter Flexter
Personally I usually hate musical biopics. I am trying to avoid the basic white cis stories as non white non cis stories are largely ignored.

However this film is so well done. I couldn’t express it in a tweet and much better writers have expressed it. But it does a great job of showing queerness, the 70s, and the magic of Johns music. It also may be the best use of a biopic and a jukebox musical

Content warning for alcohol and drug addiction and homophobic slurs are used

Day 12: Love is Love (2016)
For the fourth anniversary of the pulse shootings, I’m recommending this good comic made as charity and artistic expression after the event. There are some really heartbreaking moments and I think it’s a great time capsule for that horrific time

Day 13: Real Queer America (2019) by Samantha Allen. This nonfiction novel follows the travels of Samantha Allen, a transgender woman in a wlw marriage. She travels the red states, showing the progressions and adversities of the queer communities that live within them

It is a perfect look at queerness in red state America. It dismantles the idea that we all want to escape. Some wish to build. The lgbtq+ identities are ones which tend to be overlooked in popular media. Because of this, I believe it’s a great introduction to the community

Day 14: The Quiet Room (2018), Dir. Sam Wineman trigger warning // suicide
A young black, gay man is sent to a mental hospital for a failed suicide attempt but he is soon haunted by Hattie, the demon in his room. A well crafted short film that is unashamed of its queerness

The director is queer (self-identified) and he is directing shudders queer horror documentary

Day 15: Lumberjanes (2014-present) creates by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Brooklyn Allen, and Noelle Stevenson. Lumberjanes is an incredibly fun adventure comic book series starring 5 main girls: Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Riley

Jo is a transgender girl who two gay dads. Mal and Molly have mutual crushes on each other. The book is friendly to readers of all ages. I highly recommend it

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Day 16: Moonlight (2016), Dir. Barry Jenkins
Sometimes the Oscars get it right. The plot follows Chiron, a young black man in Miami who suffers homophobia and racism by survives through kindness of his community.

Tw// racism, homophobia, drug addiction

Day 17: this wonderful video essay breaks down the experience of bisexual people (especially bisexual women and women aligned people) through the lense of literature with elements of theater and cultural criticism.

Day 18: Attack of the Queerwolf, a comedic, film criticism podcast dissecting horror and how queer themes often interact with the genre. The cast has a great dynamic. Their guests often bring something interesting to a table. A great start to understand horror and queerness