Pride 2025: A Q+ Celebration!
June 20
Eastsiders
Eastsiders is the kind of show that knows queer life is never just one thing. Created by Kit Williamson (who also stars), this dramedy follows a group of messy, magnetic friends navigating love, infidelity, sobriety, and growing pains in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. At its core is the relationship between Cal (Williamson) and Thom (Van Hansis), two men who love each other deeply, but don’t always know how to be together.
What makes Eastsiders stand out is its raw honesty. The show doesn’t sugarcoat, it digs into the complications of modern queer relationships with humor, tenderness, and just the right amount of chaos. It’s shot on a modest budget, but the emotional stakes are sky-high. Over its four seasons, the series blossoms into a quietly groundbreaking portrait of chosen family, queer survival, and what it means to keep choosing someone even when it’s hard. It’s the perfect binge-watch for this Pride Month.
Where to watch? All for seasons of Eastsiders are available to stream on Netflix or Prime Video, depending on the region.
How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix
Myriam Lacroix’s How It Works Out is a spellbinding debut that slips between reality and surreality, love and loneliness, desire and distortion. Told through a series of fragmented vignettes and hybrid forms, the novel centers on a queer woman whose obsession with a charismatic stranger spirals into a surreal descent through intimacy, detachment, and self-erasure.
This is queer literature at its most experimental, raw, poetic, and daring in form. Lacroix explores the boundaries of desire, the power dynamics of obsession, and the blurred lines between fantasy and reality. It’s haunting and seductive, the kind of book that disorients you in the best way, asking you to surrender to its dream logic and emotional honesty.
Where to buy? How It Works Out is available to purchase at all reputable booksellers.
Fear Street Part Three: 1666
The final chapter in Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy takes us all the way back to 1666—the origin point of the Shadyside curse. But what makes Part Three so powerful isn’t just the witchy horror or eerie colonial setting, it’s the way it centers queer love in a genre that often sidelines it. At the heart of the film is the forbidden romance between Sarah Fier (Kiana Madeira) and Hannah Miller (Olivia Scott Welch), whose love sparks suspicion, betrayal, and ultimately a legacy of violence that echoes through centuries.
Fear Street Part Three: 1666 reclaims the horror trope of the “doomed lesbian” and flips it on its head. What begins in tragedy builds toward resistance and reclamation, as present-day Deena (Kiana Madeira) fights to break the curse and honor the truth about Sarah Fier’s story. This is horror done right, bloody, bold, and unapologetically queer.
Where to watch? Fear Street Part Three: 1666 is available to stream on Netflix.
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