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WATCH LIST: “Vice” in Theaters, “The Hate U Give” on VOD, “I Am Jazz” and “New Year, New You” on TV

Plus LGBTQ-themed Netflix picks for January

In Theaters

Vice

Alison Pill, who portrayed Harvey Milk’s right-hand-lesbian Anne Kronenberg in Milk, plays Mary Cheney, Dick Cheney's (Christian Bale) queer daughter, in Adam McKay’s dark, comedic biopic about G.W. Bush's (Sam Rockwell) power mongering vice president. Melissa K. Marks plays Mary’s girlfriend and eventual wife, Heather Poe. (Now Playing, Annapurna Pictures)

DVD/Blu-Ray/Video on Demand

The Hate U Give

Out actress Amandla Stenberg gives a star-making performance in this adaptation of Angie Thomas’ YA novel addressing police brutality towards unarmed African Americans. Starr Carter (Stenberg), a Garden Heights black teenager attending a majority white private high school, is thrust into the center of a complicated storm after her friend Khalil (Algee Smith) is shot by a white cop (Drew Starkey) who mistakes his hairbrush for a gun. (VOD, 20thCentury Fox)

Bad Reputation

Famously reluctant to share her personal life, iconic queer rocker Joan Jett nonetheless gets the documentary treatment, featuring interviews with Kristen Stewart (who played Jett in the 2010 biopic about her early career and band, The Runaways), Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, and Kathleen Hanna. (VOD, Magnolia Pictures)

TV/Streaming

I Am Jazz

Season 5 of the GLAAD Media Award-winning reality series about transgender teen Jazz Jennings—who faced off with ghastly conservative Tomi Lehren last time—sees the now 18-year-old complete gender confirmation surgery and open up about her love life and boyfriend, Amir. (January 1, TLC)

Agatha Raisin and Fairies of Fryfam

In the latest movie based on author M.C. Beaton’s delightful 29-book (and counting) murder mystery series, British PR guru turned amateur detective Agatha Raisin (Ashley Jensen) and her witty, gay best friend Roy (Matthew Horne) must solve the murder of a handsome hairdresser (James Lance). (December 31, Acorn TV)

New Year, New You

A movie length episode of Hulu’s Into The Dark, New Year, New You co-stars Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Killing Eve, The Good Place) as a lesbian who conspires with two friends (Suki Waterhouse, Melissa Begland) to exact revenge on a Mean Girls-y bully turned influencer (Carly Chaikin) on New Year’s Eve. (December 28, Hulu)

A Series of Unfortunate Events

On the third and final season of the Lemony Snicket books’ adaptation, Neil Patrick Harris’s diabolical Count Olaf tries one last time to put an end to—and collect the inheritance of—the three Baudelaire orphans.

Comedians of the World

This epic showcase features comics from thirteen regions across the globe including openly LGBTQ stand-ups Mae Martin, DeAnne Smith, Joel Creasey, Shirley Souagnon, and Urzila Carlson. (January 1, Netflix)

On Netflix in January

Girl, the Golden Globe-nominated Belgian feature about a transgender ballet student, premieres on January 18. Ncuti Gatwa stars as Eric, openly gay best friend to the teenage son of sex therapists in the 8-episode U.K. dramedy, Sex Education, dropping on January 11. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s final season unleashes its second half on January 25, so get your last six doses of out actor Tituss Burgess’ delectable Titus Andromedon. And if you didn’t catch it on FX, binge the multiple Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace on January 17.

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