Based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli.

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it’s a little more complicated. He hasn’t told his family or friends that he’s gay, and he doesn’t know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he’s fallen for online.

Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing.

A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high-school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.

In desperate need of a noble cause to revive their public images and bounce back, self-centered Broadway thespians Dee Dee Allen and Barry Glickman, have come up with a foolproof plan to earn some positive publicity.

The flamboyant celebrity activists and their fellow struggling actors, Angie Dickinson and Trent Oliver, head to the small town of Edgewater, Indiana, to help Emma, a bright-eyed high-school student who has recently come out, make her dream of taking her girlfriend to the prom come true in the face of intolerance.

Can the bold quartet give Emma the prom she deserves?

Pride is a 2014 historical comedy-drama film written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus.

Based on a true story, it depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners’ strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign.

The two devious demon brothers Wendell and Wild have to face their arch-enemy with the help of the nun Sister Helly, who is notorious for expelling demons. However, the brothers are not only plagued by her, but also by her altar boys.

Wendell & Wild is a 2022 American gothic stop motion-animated comedy horror film directed by Henry Selick from a screenplay written by Selick and Jordan Peele (who are also producers), based on Selick’s and Clay McLeod Chapman’s unpublished book of the same name.

When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn’t expect to become his friend – or fall for his crush.

The Half of It is a 2020 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Alice Wu. It is loosely inspired by Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, and follows a Chinese-American student helping the school jock woo a girl whom, secretly, they both desire.

Netflix’s Heartstopper series, based on the graphic novels by Alice Oseman, tells the story of two British teens, Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring, at an all-boys grammar school.

Charlie, a high-strung, openly gay overthinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, one day are made to sit together in class. Their friendship quickly becomes something more for openly gay Charlie, but he initially does not believe he has a chance with Nick. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realized.

Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty, and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie’s lives that together make something larger.

Starring, produced and written by New Zealand’s gender diverse community, Rūrangi follows transgender activist Caz Davis as he heads home to the isolated, conservative dairy town of Rūrangi – where no-one’s heard or seen from Caz since before he transitioned.

There he discovers that his former best friend, his estranged father and his ex-boyfriend are grappling with their own shifting identities and the consequences of Caz’s disappearance ten years ago.

As Caz struggles to make amends, his difficult relationship with his Dad pushes him to finally confront what he’s been running from.

Rūrangi is more than a series – it is a movement to create social change for New Zealand’s gender diverse community by empowering us to tell our own stories and represent ourselves autonomously.

Read more about this groundbreaking project HERE

The Gender Agenda provides a roadmap for rangatahi to better understand gender’s fluidity and spectrum.

For anyone, rangatahi or otherwise, curious about the nuances of gender, this docuseries offers an inclusive space for learning, conversation, and connection.

Join Perrin Hastings and their guests as they strip away the mystery surrounding gender, shining a light on the strength found within one’s authentic self and creating a resource for youth, whānau, and friends to better understand gender diversity.

Episodes include:

1.  Gender vs Sex: what’s the differnce
2. How to express your gender identity
3. How differnt cultures understand gender
4. What does gender affriming healthcare look like in NZ
5. How to find your chosen family

WATCH IT HERE

Disclosure is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender.

Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, Mj Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton, and Chaz Bono, share their reactions and resistance to some of Hollywood’s most beloved moments.

Grappling with films like A Florida Enchantment (1914), Dog Day Afternoon, The Crying Game, and Boys Don’t Cry, and with shows like The Jeffersons, The L-Word, and Pose, they trace a history that is at once dehumanizing, yet also evolving, complex, and sometimes humorous. What emerges is a fascinating story of dynamic interplay between trans representation on screen, society’s beliefs, and the reality of trans lives. Reframing familiar scenes and iconic characters in a new light, director Sam Feder invites viewers to confront unexamined assumptions, and shows how what once captured the American imagination now elicit new feelings.

DISCLOSURE provokes a startling revolution in how we see and understand trans people.

Flee tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband.

Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.

Comedian Eli Matthewson hosts this dynamic six-part series revealing the untold history of New Zealand’s LGBTQI+ community.
Explore pivotal victories in rights and visibility to the hidden spaces and stories that sustained queer culture.

Episodes include

• Seeing is Believing: Queer Representation in Media
• Fighting for Our Rights: Homosexual Law Reform
• Resilience: New Zealand’s Fight Against AIDS
• Beyond the Binary: Trans Stories
• Love Thy Neighbour: The Church and the Rainbow Community
• Thank You For Your Service…But Not Your Identity: Queer in the Public Sector

Three years ago, Will Ferrell was filming a movie when he received a most surprising email: his‬ dear friend of nearly 30 years was coming out to him as a trans woman.‬ That friend was Harper Steele, a writer he met on his first day at‬‭ Saturday Night Live‬‭ back in 1995.‬

From that fateful first meeting in the halls of 30 Rock, Will knew he had found a match made in‬ comedy, and their friendship and creative partnership would only continue to grow over the next 3‬ decades.‬

In this intimate, honest, and heartfelt documentary, Will and Harper hit the open road together to‬ process this new stage of their friendship and reintroduce Harper to the country that she loves –‬ this time, as herself. Over 16 days, the two drive from New York to LA, visiting stops that are‬ meaningful to them, to their friendship, and to America.

Through laughter, tears, and many cans of‬ Pringles, they push past their comfort zones as they re-examine their relationships to these‬ spaces, and to each other, in this new light.‬