A Very Natural Selection

Cinema spun, streamed, and beamed

• DVD/⋆ DEBUT

• BLU-RAY/⋆ DEBUT

▸ STREAMING

▸ EXCLUSIVE TO VOD

The current state of gay streaming

THERE’S A PECULIAR, AS-YET-UNNAMED BRAND OF MILLENNIAL-shaming that comes from streaming services that let you know what your taste is based on viewing habits. (“Because you watched …” Who told you? ?!) For the gay viewer who has scanned mainstream platforms trying to find queer movies of quality, there’s a very specific shame, the sense of social disenfranchisement that comes from realizing what paltry options we have at all. With Netflix, that flouter of traditional categorizing, there’s no way to find gay-themed films outside of arbitrary groupings based on personal algorithms, so you’d better hope that re-watch of helps the machine find something for you other than or . Hulu actually offers an LGBT category, and it’s grown a bit, but it’s still just a (which is actually pretty good).