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Queer Sh*t to Watch This Week

Forbidden love, magical fruit, and a gay Valentine's Day rom-com.

NewNowNext spotlights the latest (and queerest) movies, TV shows, webseries, and other LGBTQ shit for your viewing pleasure in our weekly watch list. Grab your popcorn, squirrel friends!

In Theaters

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

It’s 18th-century France, and artist Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is summoned to a seaside estate in Brittany to undertake a clandestine mission: Befriend Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), a young woman about to be married off to a Milanese nobleman, and stealthily paint her portrait for the groom-to-be (who hasn’t even met her yet). Over the course of her stay, Marianne becomes infatuated with her suspicious, unhappy subject—while under the watchful, sympathetic gaze of young housemaid Sophie (Luàna Bajrami), who contends with her own tormenting secret. A Cannes screenplay prize winner, writer-director Céline Sciamma’s artful, aching, complicated lesbian love story will stay with you. (Opens February 12, Neon)

A Simple Wedding

In this intersectional rom-com, a young Iranian-American woman's parents push her to have a legit old-school Persian wedding. But when Nousha (Tara Grammy) falls for Alex (Christopher O’Shea), a progressive bisexual artist and activist (whose divorced dad is gay and partnered), chaos and culture clashes ensue. Spoiler: Love wins, with some rose water! (Opens February 14, Blue Fox Entertainment)

DVD and VOD

Orpheus' Song

When a pair of gym-bunny bros, Philipp (Sascha Weingarten) and Enis (Julien Lickert), take a trip to Greece, they meet a mysterious young fellow named Hercules (Henry Morales) in the woods, eat a potentially magic pomegranate, and spend a hot, not-so-straight night in a cave. Tor Ibens’ film may be a mythology-tinged European fantasy, but keep in mind you can find pomegranates at your local Whole Foods, too. (Available now on DVD, TLA)

You’ll Never Be Alone

Queer Chilean singer-songwriter Alex Anwandter (whose 1980s-influenced electropop you should check out) made his feature debut in 2016 with this moving, Santiago-set tale of a hardworking single father (Sergio Hernández) and his 18-year-old son (Andrew Bargsted), who’s navigating through his first queer experiences, drag, and, unfortunately, bullying. Inspired by the real-life 2012 hate-crime murder of 24-year-old Daniel Zamudio, the movie won a Berlin Film Festival LGBTQ+ Teddy Award. (Available now on Blu-ray, Altered Innocence)

TV and Streaming

Love Is Blind

Taking us one step closer to the apocalypse, this Netflix reality series “experiment” follows men and women on dates in which they cannot see one another (a screen separates them) and then propose based on their conversations. Yes, we mean propose and marry after, you know, a few days. One of the male suitors is 34-year-old Carlton, a preacher’s son who had same-sex relationships when he was younger (“I was attracted to hearts, period,” he says) but now keeps that secret and wants a wife because he finds "women bring a certain nurturing love to the table that I don’t get from a guy.” Gurl… The series consists of two weekly four-episode batches, then a finale. (Streaming February 13 on Netflix)

Visible: Out on Television

Executive produced by Wilson Cruz and Wanda Sykes, Apple’s five-part documentary series probes the evolution of television’s LGBTQ representation, from news coverage of the rights movement to characters and scripted series. Featuring a wealth of archival footage, famous talking heads (Billy Porter, Anderson Cooper, Ellen DeGeneres), and narration by the likes of Neil Patrick Harris, Asia Kate Dillon, and Janet Mock, this is must-see queer TV—literally. (Premieres February 14 on Apple TV+)

The Thing About Harry

Jake Borelli (Grey’s Anatomy) stars in writer-director Peter Paige’s Valentine’s Day rom-com about former high school enemies, openly gay Sam (Borelli) and jock Harry (Niko Terho), who reconnect when Harry comes out. That, of course, is when the real dramz begins. Co-starring GLOW’s Britt Baron and Queer Eye’s Karamo, this is the perfect date-night special. (Premieres February 15 on Freeform)

Main image: Niko Terho (left) and Jake Borelli in The Thing About Harry.

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