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Amazon Prime Acquires 58 LGBTQ Titles, Thanks to Outfest

Online streaming just got a whole lot queerer. Thanks to the likes of Netflix, Hulu, and plenty of other streaming platforms, queer content is abundantly available with the click of a mouse. Amazon Prime Video is upping their game with the LGBTQ genres.

The streaming platform has recently begun streaming 58 official-selection feature films from Outfest, the Los Angeles LGBTQ film festival that has showcased and preserved thousands of films since 1982. Some of the titles new to Amazon include GBF, Women Who Kill, Geography Club, Hello Again, Were the World Mine, and the Eating Out films. Six more titles will be added in the coming weeks.

โ€œThese are challenging times for many and reports of violence against LGBTQ citizens are on the rise,โ€ Christopher Racster, executive director of Outfest told Variety. โ€œI still believe, though, in the power of our stories to change that narrative It is a relationship like this with Prime Video Direct that will carry our stories across the widest network and reach the most individuals.โ€

The films are published to Amazon Prime Video Directโ€™s self-publishing program, allowing content owners to earn royalties based on customer viewing time. In the past year, Amazon has used this system to acquire films from other festivals around the world. Their Film Festival Stars program launched at Sundance Film Festival in 2017, before extending to SXSW, Tribeca, Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, and Guadalajara International Film Festival.

Check out the full list of LGBTQ titles new to Amazon Prime Video, thanks to Outfest:

ยท 52 Tuesdays

ยท A Sinner in Mecca

ยท An Englishman in New York

ยท Anatomy of a Love Seen

ยท Ander

ยท Baby Steps

ยท Beautiful Something

ยท Body Electric

ยท Call to Witness

ยท Crazy Bitches

ยท Desire Will Set You Free

ยท Do You Take This Man

ยท Eating Out

ยท Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds

ยท Eating Out: All You Can Eat

ยท Eating Out: Drama Camp

ยท Ekaj

ยท Empire State

ยท Family Values: An American Tragedy

ยท G.B.F.

ยท Geography Club

ยท Good Mourning Lucille

ยท Greek Pete

ยท Grown Up Movie Star

ยท Hello Again

ยท Hit So Hard

ยท Howl

ยท I Do

ยท Isle of Lesbos

ยท Jamie Marks is Dead

ยท Karl Rove, I Love You

ยท Liberty: 3 Stories about Life & Death

ยท Loving Annabelle

ยท Lyle

ยท Major!

ยท Morgan

ยท Nate & Margaret

ยท Open

ยท Park

ยท Political Animals

ยท Queens and Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo

ยท Retake

ยท Rift

ยท S Sally

ยท Sebastian

ยท Slash

ยท Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

ยท Strange Fits of Passion

ยท Stuff

ยท 10 Year Plan

ยท The Gymnast

ยท The Pearl

ยท The People Iโ€™ve Slept With

ยท The Resurrection of a Bastard

ยท Were the World Mine

ยท Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

ยท Wild Flowers

ยท Women Who Kill

Six more titles are also coming soon to the streaming platform:

ยท 1 Million Happy Nows

ยท Avaโ€™s Impossible Things

ยท Bruising for Besos

ยท Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together

ยท Something Must Brake

ยท Uncle Howard

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