Pride 2026: A Q+ Celebration
June 20
Adults
Growing up is hard. Growing up while sharing a house with your equally chaotic friends might be even harder. Adults follows a group of twenty-somethings trying to navigate work, relationships, friendships, and the countless tiny disasters that seem to define modern adulthood. Like the best ensemble comedies, the series understands that sometimes life is less about having the answers and more about figuring things out together.
What makes Adults such an enjoyable watch is its willingness to embrace messiness. The characters are often impulsive, occasionally selfish, and frequently overwhelmed by the realities of being young in a world that expects them to have everything figured out. Yet beneath the comedy is a genuine affection for its characters and the friendships that hold them together, even when they drive each other completely insane.
Funny, relatable, and full of sharp observations about modern life, Adults captures the strange transition between youth and whatever comes next. It’s a reminder that nobody really knows what they’re doing, and that sometimes the best support system is the group of friends stumbling through the same challenges alongside you.
Where to watch? Adults is available to stream on Hulu and Disney+ depending on the region.
Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Some people change the course of your life the moment you meet them. For Erica and Laure, that moment happens on the steps of the Sacré-Coeur in Paris in 1978. Erica is spending one last carefree summer abroad before returning home to England and beginning university, while Laure is a doctoral student at the Sorbonne, navigating her own complicated relationships and uncertain future. Their connection is immediate, and what begins as a summer romance soon becomes something much larger: a relationship that will shape the decades that follow.
As the years pass, life repeatedly pulls the women in different directions. Marriage, children, careers, distance, and changing social attitudes all leave their mark, yet neither can fully escape the significance of what they shared. Through secret reunions, lingering feelings, and roads not taken, Almost Life explores the enduring impact of first love and the ways certain people remain part of us, even when circumstances keep them apart.
Tender, romantic, and bittersweet, the novel asks a question many of us have wondered at one point or another: what would have happened if we’d made a different choice? Kiran Millwood Hargrave crafts a sweeping sapphic love story about longing, timing, and the lives we imagine for ourselves alongside the ones we actually live. It’s an emotional and beautifully observed novel about love that refuses to disappear, no matter how much time passes.
Where to buy? Almost Life is available to purchase at all reputable booksellers.
A Single Man
Based on Christopher Isherwood’s acclaimed novel, A Single Man follows George Falconer (Colin Firth), a British professor living in Los Angeles who is struggling to move forward after the death of his longtime partner, Jim (Matthew Goode). Set over the course of a single day in the early 1960s, the film begins with George having quietly decided that he no longer wants to live. As he puts his affairs in order and prepares for what he believes will be his final day, he moves through a series of seemingly ordinary encounters that gradually take on unexpected significance.
What makes the film so powerful is its attention to the small moments that make up a life. Conversations with friends, interactions with students, fleeting encounters with strangers, and memories of Jim all force George to reckon with his grief and the love he has lost. Firth delivers a remarkable performance, capturing both the crushing weight of George’s despair and the humanity that still connects him to the world around him.
Elegant, heartbreaking, and deeply moving, A Single Man is ultimately a film about love, loss, and the reasons we choose to keep going. By following George through what he believes will be his last day, the film explores how even the smallest moments of connection can remind us that life remains worth living. More than fifteen years after its release, it remains one of the most beautiful and emotionally resonant queer films of the twenty-first century.
Where to watch? A Single Man can be streamed on Netflix and Prime Video depending on the region. It’s also available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Google Play.
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