Pride 2026: A Q+ Celebration
June 10
The Hours
Few films have left a mark on queer audiences quite like The Hours. Adapted from Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film weaves together three interconnected stories across different time periods, all linked by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. From Woolf herself struggling with her mental health in the 1920s, to a housewife questioning her life in the 1950s, to a woman navigating love and loss at the turn of the millennium, the film explores the choices that define us and the lives we imagine for ourselves.
What makes The Hours so extraordinary is the way it finds connections between its characters despite decades separating them. Through themes of desire, regret, identity, creativity, and longing, the film paints a portrait of people searching for meaning and fulfillment in worlds that don’t always accommodate who they truly are. The performances from Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep remain some of the most celebrated of their careers, and for good reason.
Heartbreaking, beautiful, and endlessly thought-provoking, The Hours is a film that rewards revisiting. Its queer themes aren’t always loud, but they run through the story’s very foundation, shaping the lives and relationships of its characters in profound ways. More than twenty years after its release, it remains one of the most powerful literary adaptations ever put on screen.
Where to watch? The Hours is available to stream on Netflix (in some regions) and is also available to rent or purchase on Prime Video.
Women Wearing Shoulder Pads
Only Adult Swim could give us a stop-motion series about a wealthy Spanish fashion designer living in Ecuador and somehow make it one of the strangest, funniest shows on television. Created by Gonzalo Cordova, Women Wearing Shoulder Pads follows Marioneta, a glamorous and eccentric woman whose life unfolds through a series of bizarre adventures involving family drama, socialites, romance, and increasingly absurd situations.
What makes the series stand out to us is its commitment to its own wonderfully weird vision. The animation style feels handcrafted and delightfully offbeat, while the humor swings between satire, melodrama, and complete nonsense. Beneath all the chaos, however, is a surprisingly sharp commentary on class, gender, identity, and the performative nature of wealth and status. The show never stays predictable for long, and that’s a huge part of its charm.
At a time when so much television feels designed by committee, Women Wearing Shoulder Pads feels refreshingly singular. It’s strange, inventive, occasionally baffling, and often hilarious. If your ideal Pride Month watch is something you’ve never seen before and probably couldn’t explain to someone else afterward, this is the show for you.
Where to watch? Women Wearing Shoulder Pads is available to stream on HBO Max.
When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris
At first, When the Harvest Comes looks like a love story. Davis Freeman, a Black, femme violist, is preparing to marry Everett Caldwell, the man he loves deeply. But even as their wedding approaches, Davis struggles with feelings of uncertainty and self-doubt. Surrounded by Everett’s large, wealthy, and tightly knit family at their Montauk beach house, he can’t help but compare it to his own fractured family history—one shaped by years of distance from his abusive father, a Baptist minister, and the sister he left behind when he ran away from home as a teenager.
Everything changes when Davis’s sister unexpectedly arrives at the wedding and delivers devastating news: their father has been seriously injured in a car accident. In the months that follow, grief and unresolved trauma begin to affect every aspect of Davis’s life. As he retreats into his music and struggles to process emotions he has spent years avoiding, the relationship he built with Everett is tested in ways neither of them anticipated.
What makes the novel so powerful is its willingness to sit with complexity. Norris explores family, masculinity, gender expression, faith, race, and queer identity with remarkable care, while never losing sight of the love story at its center. Heartbreaking and hopeful in equal measure, When the Harvest Comes is ultimately about the people we become when we’re forced to confront the stories we’ve inherited—and the ones we choose to tell about ourselves moving forward.
Where to buy? When the Harvest Comes is available to purchase at all reputable booksellers.
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