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Queer stories worth your time — films, series, documentaries, books, podcasts and music, hand-picked by the SAFO team.

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Quouïr

Podcast · 2018

Detransition, Baby

Book · 2021

Trans

Veneno

Series · 2020

Trans

Making Gay History

Podcast · 2016

Queer

Anne+

Series · 2018

Lesbian

Welcome to Chechnya

Documentary · 2020

1929 Spanish-language theatrical poster for Pandora's Box featuring Louise Brooks
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Pandora's Box

Movie · 1929

LesbianSapphic

Equinox

Series · 2020

Queer

Quouïr

Podcast · 2018

Maricoteca

Podcast · 2021

Queer

Unorthodox

Series · 2020

Queer

Real Life

Book · 2020

Gay

Detransition, Baby

Book · 2021

Trans

Veneno

Series · 2020

Trans

We're Here

Series · 2020

Making Gay History

Podcast · 2016

Queer

Holding the Man / Drengene fra Sankt Petri

Movie · 2018

Queer

Stories of Our Lives

Movie · 2014

The Invisible Life

Movie · 2019

Queer

Anne+

Series · 2018

Lesbian

Disco

Movie · 2019

Queer

Welcome to Chechnya

Documentary · 2020

A Sun

Movie · 2019

Queer

Skam

Series · 2015

Gay

Her Body and Other Parties

Book · 2017

LesbianBisexual

Cómo Sobrevivir Soltera

Series · 2020

Lesbian

Eva & Adam

Series · 2021

Floating Skyscrapers

Movie · 2013

GayQueer

Girl Picture / Tytöt tytöt tytöt

Movie · 2022

LesbianBisexual

Nigdy Nie Będziesz Sama

Book · 2014

Lesbian

Feel Good

Series · 2020

LesbianSapphicNon-binary

It's a Sin

Series · 2021

Gay

Große Freiheit

Movie · 2021

Gay

Show Me Love / Fucking Åmål

Movie · 1998

Lesbian

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Book · 2021

Lesbian

Regnbuens Børn

Book · 2019

Cairo 678

Movie · 2010

Hoodrat to Headwrap

Podcast · 2016

Queer

Carmen & Lola

Movie · 2018

Lesbian

Psycobitch

Movie · 2019

Queer

Replika

Podcast · 2020

Paris Is Burning

Documentary · 1990

Trans

Heartstopper

Series · 2022

BisexualGayTrans

Normalo

Podcast · 2021

Tatort: Tollwut

Series · 2019

Couchgeflüster

Podcast · 2020

Homopodden

Podcast · 2020

Busenfreundin

Podcast · 2018

LesbianSapphic

Operacja: Tęcza

Documentary · 2022

Wie Wir Lieben

Documentary · 2022

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Movie · 2019

LesbianSapphic

Camille Laurens

Book · 2011

Queer

Special

Series · 2019

Gay

Sense8

Series · 2015

LesbianGayTrans

Las Que Faltaban

Podcast · 2020

Lesbian

Lesbijki Story

Podcast · 2021

Lesbian

Bögars Sak

Podcast · 2019

Gay

Camille

Podcast · 2020

Lesbian

Le Fate Ignoranti

Series · 2022

Gay

The Song of Achilles

Book · 2011

Gay

Las Culturistas

Podcast · 2016

Gay

Gayish

Podcast · 2017

Gay

Gender Trouble

Book · 1990

Queer

Bluets

Book · 2009

Queer

Heartbeats / Bezmatek

Book · 2020

LesbianQueer

Black on Both Sides

Book · 2017

Trans

Being 17

Movie · 2016

Gay

Tom of Finland

Movie · 2017

Gay

Beyond the Gender Binary

Book · 2020

TransNon-binary

Real Queer America

Book · 2019

Trans

Epistemology of the Closet

Book · 1990

Queer

Tales of the City

Series · 2019

TransQueer

Pleasure Activism

Book · 2019

Queer

A Horrible Woman

Movie · 2017

Your Name Engraved Herein

Movie · 2020

GayQueer

Gentleman Jack

Series · 2019

Lesbian

Thicker Than Water

Series · 2014

Lesbian

Fun Home

Book · 2006

Lesbian

I May Destroy You

Series · 2020

Gay

Killing Eve

Series · 2018

SapphicBisexualQueer

Sister Outsider

Book · 1984

Lesbian

All Our Fears

Movie · 2021

LesbianGayTrans

Elite

Series · 2018

BisexualGay

My Brother Is an Only Child

Movie · 2007

Queer Eye

Series · 2018

Borgen

Series · 2010

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Book · 1982

Lesbian

Tatuagem

Movie · 2013

Gay

Disobedience

Movie · 2018

Lesbian

The Wedding Banquet

Movie · 1993

Queer

Tangerine

Movie · 2015

TransQueer

The Handmaiden

Movie · 2016

Lesbian

Skam (Original/Sana/Isak)

Series · 2015

Nancy

Podcast · 2017

Queer

Bastard Out of Carolina

Book · 1992

Hörspiel: Queer Storys

Podcast · 2021

Queer

Water Lilies

Movie · 2007

Sapphic

Yellowjackets

Series · 2021

Sapphic

Milk

Movie · 2008

Homo Sapiens

Podcast · 2016

Queer

Desert Hearts

Movie · 1985

Lesbian

Borderlands/La Frontera

Book · 1987

Cemetery Boys

Book · 2020

Trans

Las Igualadas

Podcast · 2017

Sapphic

Mama Gloria

Documentary · 2020

Trans

Conversations with Friends

Book · 2017

SapphicBisexual

Pose

Series · 2018

Trans

Crying in H Mart

Book · 2021

Pride

Movie · 2014

Bad Feminist

Book · 2014

Maurice

Book · 1971

Bellies

Book · 2023

Trans

Felix Ever After

Book · 2020

Trans

Pedro and Paula

Book · 1998

Queer

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

Documentary · 2017

Trans

Bad Girls

Book · 2019

Trans

A Little Life

Book · 2015

My Beautiful Laundrette

Movie · 1985

The Price of Salt (Carol)

Book · 1952

Lesbian

Acts of Desperation

Book · 2021

Queer

Are You My Mother?

Book · 2012

The Argonauts

Book · 2015

Queer

Pose Forever (For We Are Many)

Documentary · 2022

Trans

Fried Green Tomatoes

Movie · 1991

Lesbian

Fingersmith

Book · 2002

Lesbian

Druck (Skam Germany)

Series · 2018

Queer

Tea rooms

Book · 2016

Sapphic

Nevada

Book · 2013

Trans

Tomorrow Will Be Different

Book · 2018

Trans

Yi Yi (queer aside) — Three Veil

Movie · 2000

Philip's Daughters

Podcast · 2020

Sapphic

Happening

Book · 2000

The Well of Loneliness

Book · 1928

Lesbian

Untamed

Book · 2020

The L Word

Series · 2004

LesbianBisexual

Rubyfruit Jungle

Book · 1973

Lesbian

Written on the Body

Book · 1992

Sapphic

Screaming Queens

Documentary · 2005

Trans

Annie on My Mind

Book · 1982

Lesbian

Pages for You

Book · 2001

Lesbian

A Girl Returned

Book · 2017

Mrs Dalloway

Book · 1925

Sapphic

The Out List

Documentary · 2013

Spinning

Book · 2017

Tomboy Survival Guide

Book · 2016

Mean Little deaf Queer

Book · 2009

Whipping Girl

Book · 2007

Trans

Gender Outlaw

Book · 1994

Trans

A Secret Love

Documentary · 2020

Lesbian

But I'm a Cheerleader

Movie · 1999

Lesbian

Imagine Me & You

Movie · 2005

Lesbian

How to Survive a Plague

Documentary · 2012

Gay

Girlhood

Movie · 2014

Queer

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Movie · 1994

Queer

Forbidden Love

Documentary · 1992

Lesbian

Beautiful Thing

Movie · 1996

Queer

United in Anger

Documentary · 2012

Brokeback Mountain

Movie · 2005

Queer

Tomboy

Movie · 2011

First Day

Series · 2020

Trans

Strike a Pose

Documentary · 2016

Queer

Visible: Out on Television

Documentary · 2020

Queer

Below Her Mouth

Movie · 2016

Lesbian

Skam France

Series · 2018

Queer

Bottoms

Movie · 2023

Sapphic

Girl

Movie · 2018

Trans

LGBTQ&A

Podcast · 2017

Bound

Movie · 1996

Lesbian

Princess Cyd

Movie · 2017

Sapphic

Food 4 Thot

Podcast · 2017

Queer

My Name Is Pauli Murray

Documentary · 2021

Queery with Cameron Esposito

Podcast · 2021

LesbianQueer

Tongues Untied

Documentary · 1989

Happy Together

Movie · 1997

GayQueer

Two Dykes and a Mic

Podcast · 2018

Lesbian

Sex Education

Series · 2019

Cantoras

Book · 2019

Lesbian

The Combahee River Collective Statement

Article · 1977

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

Article · 1980

Lesbian

My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix

Article · 1994

Trans

Lie with Me

Book · 2017

Queer

Kiss Me (Kyss mig)

Movie · 2011

Lesbian

Coyote Sunrise (Hurricane Season)

Book · 2019

The Summer Book

Book · 1972

Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål)

Movie · 1998

Lesbian

Vida

Series · 2018

Sapphic

The Days of Abandonment

Book · 2002

Heartstopper Vol. 1

Book · 2018

Queer

Bad Education (Stowarzyszenie)

Series · 2022

Las Raras

Podcast · 2016

Bechdel Cast

Podcast · 2016

Sapphic

Translash

Podcast · 2018

Trans

Out FM

Podcast · 2018

Pareja Abierta

Podcast · 2019

Queer

Wir sind Viele

Podcast · 2020

Busy Being Black

Podcast · 2018

Trans Specific Partnership

Podcast · 2020

Trans

Bisexual Brunch

Podcast · 2020

SapphicBisexual

Queer Money

Podcast · 2017

Lavender Tube

Podcast · 2020

Queer

Queer Coolie-tudes

Documentary · 2019

Notes on 'Camp'

Article · 1964

Queer

The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto

Article · 1987

Trans

Moonlight

Movie · 2016

GayQueer

Tipping the Velvet

Book · 1998

Lesbian

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Book · 1985

Lesbian

Rafiki

Movie · 2018

Lesbian

Patience and Sarah

Book · 1969

Lesbian

Orange Is the New Black

Series · 2013

LesbianSapphicBisexual

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Book · 2019

GayQueer

Pray Away

Documentary · 2020

The L Word: Generation Q

Series · 2019

Lesbian

Looking

Series · 2014

Queer

Bisexuality: A Critical Reader

Book · 1999

SapphicBisexual

The Watermelon Woman

Movie · 1996

Lesbian

BPM (120 Battements par minute)

Movie · 2017

Quiet Hell

Book · 1974

Queer

Fair Play

Book · 1989

Lesbian

Schitt's Creek

Series · 2015

Born This Way

Documentary · 2013

Elite Short Stories: Nadia Guzmán

Series · 2021

Queer

Élite (Elite)

Series · 2018

Queer

Glow & Lovely (GLOW)

Series · 2017

Sapphic

Queer as Fiction

Podcast · 2019

Queer

Hör mal, wer da hämmert

Podcast · 2021

Some Families

Podcast · 2018

Putos Modernos

Podcast · 2017

Queer

Identidades

Podcast · 2020

Hoy Hablamos

Podcast · 2017

Queer Britain

Documentary · 2017

Cassandro, the Exotico!

Documentary · 2018

Queer

She's a Talker

Podcast · 2018

Queer

Inside the Closet

Podcast · 2020

Gay

Buffering the Vampire Slayer

Podcast · 2016

Lesbian

Inner Hoe Uprising

Podcast · 2015

SapphicQueer

Red, White & Royal Blue

Book · 2019

Gay

The Half of It

Movie · 2020

LesbianSapphic

Call Me by Your Name

Book · 2007

Gay

Saving Face

Movie · 2004

LesbianSapphic

Disclosure

Movie · 2020

Trans

Carol

Movie · 2015

Lesbian

The Log Books

Podcast · 2019

Queer

Lesbian Romantic

Podcast · 2020

Lesbian

The Read

Podcast · 2013

Gay

Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Movie · 2013

Lesbian

Pariah

Movie · 2011

Lesbian