Gay series on voot
By Kratika Agarwal
Pride Month brings us together to celebrate stories that beautifully capture the struggles and triumphs of self-discovery. Today, diverse and captivating tales of love and acceptance are appreciated worldwide. And with the rise of OTT platforms, queer content is more readily available than ever before. Here, we have put together a watch list with LGBTQ+ narratives to light up your screens and fill your hearts with joy. Cheerful streaming and Cheerful Pride!
1. Fire Island
This rom-com film follows two best friends who embark on a memorable weekend with their collective of friends at Fire Island, a renowned gay vacation destination in Fresh York. This production beautifully explores themes of friendship, affection, and self-discovery in a vibrant and entertaining setting.
Where to watch: Disney+ Hotstar
2. The Ultimatum: Queer Love.
The latest iteration of the dating website reality show ‘The Ultimatum’ features five queer couples, where one partner is offering the other an ultimatum—marry or move on. This drama-filled and thrilling series offers viewers a glimpse into the nuances an
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The L Word
When The L Word premiered in , it was groundbreaking television because it finally dared to lay lesbian stories at the forefront. The leads were queer women who had full, sexual lives. (No kill your gays here!) Since then, the exhibit has been criticized for its lack of diversity, but the fact remains that it ushered in a new era of queer television.
About a decade after the first show ended, Showtime launched The L Word: Generation Q, a revival that attempted to right the original’s wrongs by featuring a more diverse community of leads and stories, while also catching up with the characters authentic fans know and love.
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Orange is the Novel Black
Netflix’s first hit unique series was also one of the streamer’s most groundbreaking. Based on the book by Piper Kerman, Orange is the Recent Black kicks off when Piper (Taylor Schilling) is sentenced to jail period for a crime pledged years earlier with an old girlfriend—much to the shock of her current male fiancé. The dramedy foll
The Indian web-series market has witnessed a surge in interest in the recent years. The initial wave of shows focused on fresh content marketed to a young generation that felt misrepresented in the accessible mainstream television market. However, more recently, there has been a growth of series that are largely heteronormative, focused on college-going men oriented and/or slapstick comedies about navigating urban life.
With an exception of very few web-series, online content has fallen victim to reducing minorities to mere subplots. Series such as ALTBalaji’s Dev DD, and Vikram Bhatt’s Twisted are using LGBTQ characters &#; not as a solid addition to their storylines, but as plain fillers. Instead of creature truly diverse, these shows come across as making feeble attempts at diversity by filling minor plot breaks with minorities.
And so, it has now turn into more important than ever to find authentic voices telling LGBTQ stories. Because minorities and their narratives are not plots points to be used in a series to produce it seem more liberal.
Following are four Indian
Voot's new web series 'UNTAG' celebrates individuality
Viacom18’s OTT platform Voot was recently awarded as Winner of the Best Apps of (India) across categories by Google Play. After the success of its recent series ‘It’s Not That Simple’ starring Swara Bhaskar as the protagonist, Voot has now announced another 6-episode original series titled “UNTAG”, which started yesterday.
Overweight, Dark, Ugly, Short, B*#%h, Psycho, Gay and more- the list of tags that we associate people with is endless! Our first impression of people often associates them with tags.
‘’UNTAG’’ the new web-series by Voot, delves into the lives of regular people with seemingly innocuous tags, their dreams, their inhibitions and most importantly their struggles. It gives the audience a fresh and light perspective of 6 characters, each dealing with their imposed tags, trying to become much more than what the world has labelled them as.
UNTAG celebrates friendship, relationships, love and the uniqueness of each of these journeys. It is a story about