Top 4 Queer Streaming Sites

If you want to watch movies and TV shows created for queer audiences, now more than ever, you have a choice of streaming services. Some mainstream platforms like Netflix offer “queer” entertainment as part of their general catalog, while others, like Revry, focus primarily on queer programming. To help you find inclusive titles, we’ve rounded up the best streaming services for queer movies and shows while highlighting the most important programs you can watch on each.

The selected titles deal with queer experiences and relationships or feature gay characters or LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual) reality TV actors in important roles. So, without further ado, let’s dive into this blog and discover some of the best and  queerest streaming services out there.

1. Netflix

With an extensive catalog of movies and TV shows to suit everyone’s tastes, Netflix is undoubtedly one of the best streaming services for queer entertainment. Netflix offers a wide selection of LGBTQIA+ titles, including several original shows and movies. The range of queer-related options from Netflix includes everything from light sitcoms like “Schitt’s Creek” to Oscar-winning films like “The Danish Girl.”

The service offers a particularly interesting selection of original titles, with many exclusive films and series featuring gay themes and characters, including the latest hit film “Heartstopper,” as well as older titles like “Sense 8” and “Orange Are the New Black.” Netflix launched a romantic Christmas comedy with homosexual content over the holidays called “Single All the Way.”

Subscribers also have access to movies and documentaries with transgender stories like “The Death and Life of Martha P. Johnson,” “Disclosure,” and “Super Deluxe.” You can easily find queer content on Netflix by searching for “LGBTQIA+” in the Netflix app.

2. Hulu

Hulu’s LGBTQIA+ offerings include a ton of new and classic shows from the channel and a handful of original shows. It is another mainstream service whose catalog is packed with television shows and movies for queer viewers.

Although its collection of original titles isn’t as large as Netflix’s, you can watch movies like “Crush” and “Fire Island” on Hulu. The service also offers many classic network and cable shows focused on LGBTQIA+ themes and characters, including groundbreaking series like “Will & Grace” and “The L Word.”

Queer viewers will find a wealth of movies to stream on Hulu, including dramas like “Ammonite” and comedies like “Booksmart.” The Hulu catalog also features “Pride,” a miniseries about the civil rights movement, and all six seasons of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Hulu subscribers can find queer entertainment recommendations by searching for “LGBTQIA+” in the app.

3. WOW Presents Plus

WOW Presents Plus is a subscription-based streaming service dedicated to drag entertainment. It is a streaming service for queer titles from the production company behind “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” This is a particularly interesting option for viewers who want some extra drag entertainment.

Although Paramount Plus is the best streaming service for the U.S. seasons of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” the international seasons of the franchise are available to stream on WOW Present Plus. Globally, licensed spinoffs are hosted in Canada, Australia, Spain, Holland, the United Kingdom, and Thailand.

The WOW Present Plus catalog also features interesting LGBTQIA+ documentaries such as “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and shows from former “Drag Race” participants, including “Painted with Raven” and “UNHhhh,” a talk show with Trixie Mattel and Katya.

4. Paramount plus

Paramount Plus has a smaller catalog of queer titles, but it’s ideal for LGBTQ reality TV fans. It’s the best streaming service for an LGBTQIA+ reality TV-hungry audience. You can watch seasons 1-12 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and every season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars.” Three seasons of “Untucked” and three seasons of “All Stars: Untucked,” a behind-the-scenes look at the drag competition, are also available to stream.

In the 1990s, MTV’s “The Real World” was a cultural phenomenon. Twenty seasons of the show are available on Paramount Plus. The catalog includes the third season with AIDS activist Pedro Zamora and the fifteenth season with Karamo Brown, now part of the Fab Five of “Queer Eye.” The original short story “The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans” reunites the residents of New Orleans, including an openly gay roommate. MTV’s “Are You The One?” is also available on Paramount Plus; the eighth season features an all-bi- or pansexual cast.

In terms of storylines, “Star Trek: Discovery” contains the first openly gay character in a “Star Trek” series. Subsequent seasons also introduce the first non-binary and transgender “Star Trek” characters. The service also hosts a few LGBTQ-themed movies and series, but the selection of narrative titles is not as broad as on Netflix, HBO Max, or Hulu.

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