BIPOC Leads

This category highlights stories centered on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) protagonists. These films and series explore a wide range of experiences, cultures, and identities while celebrating diverse voices and perspectives within LGBTQ+ storytelling. From romance and drama to comedy and coming-of-age stories, these narratives place BIPOC characters at the heart of the story.

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  • Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?

    Movie

    On her 40th birthday, Anna decides her life must change! An eccentric jetsetter and iconoclastic artist, she now lives in a friend's garage in Los Angeles. Her film career has stalled, and her love life is non-existent... Something's got to change... now! It's meeting the beautiful Katia that wil...

  • The Centre

    1 season

    The Centre is a safe haven where a lesbian couple provides a space for young women to speak freely about the issues that affect them.

  • Scare BNB

    1 season

    A five-episode, limited series produced by A Baker Production, episodes one and two, “The Hosts,” will launch Feb. 28. An additional three episodes, “The Double Booking,” will begin streaming later this year.

    In Scare B&B, two couples—long-time friends since high school—are in high spirits when ...

  • Rent Controlled

    1 season

    When the love of her life breaks up with her the day after they move in together, Heather (Heather Dean) has to decide if she should move on, move out, or put on the moves that would win back Jennifer's (Remy Maelen) heart.

  • Middlemarch the Series

    1 season

    A gender-bent, vlog-style adaptation of George Elliot's Victorian novel "Middlemarch", the series follows a group of students at Lowick College in Middlemarch, Connecticut, who set out to change the world and then have to figure out how to live in it.

  • I Put The Bi In Bitter

    3 seasons

    "I Put the Bi in Bitter" is a cute and lighthearted comedy that follows a bisexual teenager and her lesbian BFF as they navigate high school, deal with friendship and crushes, and survive all the other awkward moments and shenanigans that come from being young. It’s created by a majority female, ...

  • 3 Way the Series

    1 season

    After a disastrous and public divorce, Siobhan (Maeve Quinlan) is finally on the path to serenity and calm...until her best friend, the well-meaning Roxie (Cathy Shim), moves her new girlfriend, Andrea (Jill Bennett), into the house.

  • When Kiran met Karen

    Movie

    When a glamorous Bollywood actress crosses paths with a sharp, openly lesbian journalist, an unexpected attraction ignites. As their connection deepens, they must navigate clashing worlds of fame, cultural expectations, and personal truth. When Kiran Met Karen is a heartfelt romance about visibil...

  • The World Unseen

    Movie

    The movie follows the story of two Indian–South African women who fall in love in the racist, sexist society of apartheid South Africa in 1952. Featuring excellent performances from leads Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth, the movie is a charming, well-crafted period drama done right. (dir. Shamim Sar...

  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post

    Movie

    When Cameron Post is caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night, she is promptly shipped off to God's Promise, a religious boarding school, to undergo conversion therapy.

    Alongside other youths "struggling with same-sex attraction," Cameron is subjected to outlandish disci...

  • The Last Conception

    Movie

    When the traditional Sikand family discovers they are the last descendants of an ancient and sacred bloodline, their world is turned upside down. The responsibility of continuing the lineage falls not on their son, as expected, but on their independent and openly gay daughter, Savarna—much to eve...

  • The Feels

    Movie

    Andi and Lu are excited to celebrate their upcoming wedding with a joint bachelorette weekend in wine country. On the first night, things get off to a rocky start when one of the brides admits that she's never had an orgasm. (dir. Jenée LaMarque, US, 2017)

  • Season of Love

    Movie + 12 extras

    A queer lady holiday movie that follows the lives of three very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set right before Christmas through New Years. (dir. Christin Baker, US, 2019)

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  • Riley Parra: Better Angels

    Movie + 1 extra

    Detective Riley Parra grew up in the bad part of town, the crime-ridden No Man's Land. Now, as a cop in a corrupt department, she strives to make sure the rough streets she left behind aren't forgotten. One case leads her to the discovery that No Man's Land is a battleground between angels and de...

  • Rafiki

    Movie

    "Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the tw...

  • Polarized

    Movie

    Lisa, an aspiring songwriter, whose farming family has suffered foreclosure is forced to work at a new, 'urban farm' where she meets Dalia. Lisa's casual racism leads her to be fired but the two women end up drawn into a passionate affair. (2024 Dir. Shamim Sharif)

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    Merry & Gay
    Movie + 2 extras

    Merry & Gay

    Movie + 2 extras

    After leaving her small-town home behind to pursue big dreams, actress Becca found success in a hit musical and fell in love with her life on the stage, while her high school sweetheart, Sam, stayed behind in Nashville, bar-tending and trying to med a broken heart. Now, returning home for Christm...

  • Ma Belle, My Beauty

    Movie

    Ma Belle, My Beauty explores the intimate re-encounter between two former lovers of a polyamorous triad. Bertie, an esteemed New Orleans vocalist, has recently married French trumpet player, Fred, and moved with him to Southern France, where, to Fred's distress, she's since been uninspired and re...

  • Kiss Me Kosher

    Movie

    A subversive love story between clashing cultures and families, KISS ME KOSHER is a romantic misadventure crossing all borders. When two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, chaos follows. What happens with lovers who don’t fit but do belong together? (dir. ...

  • I Hate New Year's

    Movie + 1 extra

    I Hate New Year’s is a charming holiday lesbian romcom that follows rising pop star Layne Price, who heads back to Nashville to find inspiration after a creative block stalls her music career. Determined to escape the glitz of L.A. and avoid the holiday altogether, Layne reconnects with her best ...

  • I Can't Think Straight

    Movie

    I Can Think Straight centers on the relationship between the rich, headstrong Tala, a Jordanian woman and terminal engagement-breaker who faces extreme pressure to marry a well-off Middle-Eastern man, and Leyla, a talented but introspective Indian-British woman who faces similar pressure at home....

  • Girl King

    Movie

    With a fistful of fetish in every frame, Girl King is a sexy, swashbuckling, gender-bending adventure on the high seas. When a naïve baby Butch is taken prisoner by the infamous pirate Captain Candy, a hunt begins to find the Queens stolen treasure. In a world where men were men, and girls were g...

  • Game Face

    Movie

    Exploring the coming-out journeys of LGBTQ athletes: telling the parallel stories of Fallon Fox, the first female transgender pro MMA fighter; and Terrence Clemens, a college basketball player in Oklahoma who happens to be gay. (dir. Michiel Thomas, US, 2015)

  • For Izzy

    Movie

    FOR IZZY is a narrative feature drama filmed in a documentary format infused with elements of magical realism. It tracks the story of what happens after a retired divorcee, Anna, and her lesbian daughter, Dede, struggling with addiction move next door to a lonely widowed father, Peter, and his au...