LGBT Offerings: As the site only offers a 30 films at a time, the LGBT pickings are slim, but unique-like One Year Lease, Velvet Goldmine and The Zone. It’s also partnered with film festivals around the world to give members first looks and rare glimpses of arthouse fare.Ĭost: $4.99/month, $27.99 for six months, $34.99/year. The Lowdown: This tightly curated service offers only 30 films at a time, though many are recent critical darlings or certified classics. Hot Picks: A Very Natural Thing, Un Chant d’Amour, Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old. Fandor boasts of having “the biggest and best selection of hand-picked LGBTQ films around,” and they could be right. The Lowdown: This indie-focused streaming site is great for fringe and foreign flicks, hard-to-find classics and documentaries. Hot Picks: Transparent, Keep the Lights On, Happy Together, Yossi and Jagger. LGBT Offerings: While some of Amazon Instant Video’s LGBT offerings-like Brokeback Mountain -are not available on Prime, there’s Transparent, of cour,se and quite a few indie and foreign queer films you won’t find elsewhere. The Lowdown: Amazon’s subscription service has blossomed in the past year, giving free access to a healthy chunk of the general Amazon library and groundbreaking original shows like Transparent. Hot Picks: Please Like Me, Tales from the City, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Bear City.
There’s a dedicated Gay & Lesbian category for both TV and film, though the latter is fairly weak. We’re currently obsessed with the Australian dramedy Please Like Me.
Gay Offerings: Hulu Plus offers everything from RuPaul’s Drag Race and Modern Family to The L Word and Queer as Folk. Price: $7.99/month or $11.99 for commercial-free plan. The Lowdown: In addition to a healthy array of TV shows, Hulu Plus boasts the entire Criterion film collection-including Belle du Jour, Gimme Shelter and Tie Me Up! Time Me Down! There’s also extensive foreign TV offerings, from the UK’s Miranda and The Only Way is Essex to the Korean alien soap opera My Love From Another Star. Hot Picks: Brokeback Mountain, Beginners, Stranger by the Lake, Paris is Burning.
Gay Appeal: Netflix has by far the biggest selection of gay features and docs, and a robust Gay and Lesbian genre, not to mention original series like Grace and Frankie and Orange is the New Black.
The Lowdown: The first online streaming subscription service is still arguably the best overall for mainstream movies and classic television, though it falls behind on current TV shows and foreign fare.
Note: To find out if a certain movie or show is available on a specific platform, visit or Where to Watch. We picked six of the biggest and took a look at offerings, cost and more. But how do the major streaming services stack up when it comes to LGBT movies and television shows? This June, give yourself the gift of a piece of trans cinema history.The days of driving to Blockbuster to pick up a movie are long gone-today we want everything streamed onto our computers and mobile devices. digital media, it’s important to remember films like I Want What I Want that would be completely wiped out of history if it were not for internet preservation as the film has been out of print since before many of us reading this were alive. With the constant debates surrounding physical vs.
Yes, there are some aspects that haven’t aged well considering it’s nearly fifty years old, but even the decision to have a cis woman (Anne Heywood) play the trans woman lead is groundbreaking considering we’re still putting male actors in bad wigs and calling it “cinema” in 2021. Based on the book of the same name, I Want What I Want is an out of print movie lost to time and it’s a terrible shame because it is one of the most sincere presentations of a trans affirming film ever made. Trans representation in cinema is pretty damn terrible if we’re being honest, but there are a handful that rise above the top and offer a genuinely thoughtful approach to telling a trans story.