Lesbian film critic Sofia De Vera merges academic expertise with a heartfelt focus on queer cinema, advocating for meaningful LGBTQIA+ narratives through 15 years of reflective and celebratory film criticism.
Over the course of the last few decades, the amount of LGBTQ+ content in media has skyrocketed. Once only hinted at or suggested, queer narratives have been making waves in the film and television world as of late, and for good reason.
These stories, in addition to being thoughtful entertaining, and interesting, provide great representation for queer folk young and old and open up the door for even more diverse stories in entertainment in the future. While there are increasing numbers of LGBT+ TV shows, lesbian films, gay comedies, and more – we can only hope to see the number of queer stories on-screen go up in the coming years – and with a greater diversity of genders, sexualities and races.
One place where you can find plenty of gay and lesbian content is on Netflix. The streaming giant, which originally became popular in part because of its willingness to carry more explicit or “taboo” content, has dozens if not hundreds of queer television shows and films now in its library, and they’re adding more every day.
Not all of them are award-winning masterpieces of course (though some are), but Netflix clearly has made a dedicated effort to add more LGBTQ+ content to its ranks here in recent years. And honey, we are here for it!
Another area in which Netflix has bulked up their content in recent years is anime. The streaming service has publicly stated that they’re doubling down on their anime production and acquisition and that they hope to be a major provider of it in the near future.
So, with a major increase in both LGBTQ content as well as anime content, perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are a number of queer anime series that you can watch on Netflix right now.
A quick note however that the availability of gay anime shows on Netflix varies regionally and accessing some of these titles may depend on where you live in the world and which streaming services you have.
If you can’t find it on your Netflix, you can use a VPN to access other geo-regions, or you could sign up for a one-month free of Amazon Pride (or a 6-month trial for students) to get immediate access to Amazon Video if you can find the titles there. While you won’t be charged for your free trial, you’ll be upgraded to a paid membership plan automatically at the end of the trial period – though if you have already binged all these, you could just cancel before the trial ends.
Apple TV+ also has a one-week trial, and Hulu has a one-month trial (which can be bundled with Disney!) though we have not seen any cases of these platforms carrying these gay anime shows when not available on Netflix
While we wish everything could just be in one place – for now, this is the world we live in!
These queer anime series on Netfli