Last Updated: July 18, 2024
In Tongues
by Thomas Grattan
It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon―handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction―takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him―and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself.
Blessings
by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Set in post-military Nigeria and culminating in the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2014, Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family. But when an intimate connection blossoms between Obiefuna and a boy from a nearby village, happiness is fleeting once his father catches them together and banishes him to boarding school. Back home, his mother Uzoamaka must contend with the absence of her beloved son, her husband’s cryptic reasons for sending him away, and the hard truths that they’ve all been hiding from. As Nigeria teeters on the brink of criminalizing same-sex relationships, Obiefuna’s life, or the life he wants to live, becomes even further out of a reach and more dangerous than ever before.
Hall of Mirrors
by John Copenhaver
Suspicious after his lover and writing partner’s death in house fire is ruled a suicide in 1954 Washington, DC, Lionel joins forces with two friends and amateur sleuths to investigate and stop a serial killer.
Cinema Love
by Jiaming Tang
A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them.
Experienced
by Kate Young
A fresh, sexy romantic comedy about a newly-out lesbian finding herself, finding her tribe, and finding her partner–in that order.
We Used to Live Here
by Marcus Kliewer
A young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve, while restoring an old house, answer the door to a man claiming to have lived there years before, which sets in motion a chain of uncanny and inexplicable events leading to Charlie’s disappearance and Eve’s descent into insanity.
Hombrecito
by Santiago Jose Sanchez
A queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant’s complex relationships with his mother and his motherland.