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.
โThese 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. โI 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 Directโs 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 Iโve 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 Avaโs Impossible Things
ยท Bruising for Besos
ยท Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together
ยท Something Must Brake
ยท Uncle Howard