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    FLICKer: Ofrenda

    December 11, 2025 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    Ofrenda follows a young woman as she prepares for día de los muertos.

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    FLICKer: Odd Bird

    December 4, 2025 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    As a boy, Clark always felt like the odd bird in his conservative ranch family. To cope, he created a comic book, “The Adventures of Odd Bird,” making himself the hero of his own story. Now 19, a publisher is interested in his work and Clark needs to return home to get the comic manuscript…and tell his mom his truth. Clark fears once he tells her he’s gay, he won’t be welcome there again.

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    FLICKer: Firsts

    November 27, 2025 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    After countless swipes on dating apps, a bipolar writer finally has a great date, until he’s forced to confront the stigma surrounding his condition.

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    FLICKer: Out of the Woods

    November 20, 2025 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    “CONTROVERSY STRIKES when a photo of famed ghost hunters Roderick and Eric allegedly kissing hits the press. Tensions high, the boys must set aside their relationship drama once they receive an urgent call about a haunting…”

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    FLICKer: A Table For Two

    November 13, 2025 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    Experience the sweet, funny, and heartfelt moments of modern love in ‘A Table for Two’, a short LGBT romantic comedy starring Rich Dee and Timmie Lee Murphy. Set in a cosy café, charming barista Harry watches romance unfold every day at his counter—but it’s his regular, Jasper, whose endless string of hilariously disastrous dates keeps him most entertained.

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    FLICKer: Cognitive

    November 6, 2025 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    Young David interprets something heard from a homophobic preacher that changes his outlook on life, playing out into adulthood. Cognitive begs the question: what if growing up in the church led you to believe you wouldn’t grow up at all?

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    FLICKer: I Hope He Doesn’t Kill Me

    October 30, 2025 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    Buzz buzzes the buzzer to an unknown Grindr hookup’s apartment, imagining all the ways this night could unfold.

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    FLICKer: The First Saturday of May

    October 23, 2025 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    The First Saturday of May is a short film that follows the story of an Irish-Traveller father as he struggles to raise his son to be the man he was destined to be. As a well-respected figure in his community, Paddy yearns for nothing more than to have the perfect family, however, pushing his son to be the next man of the McDonagh family will only drive a bigger wedge between them. You never know what’s happening behind closed doors.

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    FLICKer: Heartdrop

    October 16, 2025 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    This touching and bold short film follows Dylan and Max, a young queer couple in a small town, as they navigate issues of identity, secrecy, and intimacy. One of them embraces their true self, while the other conceals it behind the facade of societal expectations. But a hidden phone feature becomes their quiet way to express their authentic selves… Will love survive the pressure to decline — or will they both keep choosing accept?

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    FLICKer: Leaving

    October 9, 2025 / No Comments

    Featuring LGBT short films I found around the interwebz a.k.a Youtube. Okay sucky intro, but yeah, that’s it.


    Daniel is a gay Jamaican immigrant who is under threat of being deported from the US and must confront his virulently homophobic father for assistance with applying for a green card.

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Mercilessly thrilling. Ruthlessly swoony.

REVIEW: Park Avenue Kings Books 4 & 5 by Ella Frank & Brooke Blaine

Merciless - 4.5 royal wedding stars
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OUNDTRACK: Mercy by IAMX & Ruthless by Allegra Jordyn🎶

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Ten years ago, Ned Anderson made the biggest mistake of his life.

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Carter has one rule: don’t fall in love. But living at home comfortably and following that rule gets complicated when a paper towel mascot gets in his way and he has to prove to his mom that he can handle danger.

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When all your friends have plus-ones but you’re still figuring out step one.

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