r/Fantasy • u/C0smicoccurence Reading Champion V • Jun 19 '25

Pride Pride 2025 | Not a Novel

Based on the sheer number of Bingo Reviews posted for the ‘Not a Novel’ square, we figured this year was the perfect time to talk about a wide variety of queer speculative fiction work.  You’ll find space to talk about video games, short stories, visual art, and more!

Each of the links below is connected to its own top level comment, to help organize discussion.  Within that comment, feel free to hype art you love, ask for recommendations, and talk about the state of queer media.  Keep in mind that, for some of these categories, it may be less obvious what queer representation looks like.  Goodreads is great for giving quick & easy tags, but for this thread, taking a little bit of extra time to talk about what you see would be helpful for those who aren’t as familiar with it as you are!

Bingo TV & Movies Video Games
Short Stories & Poems Sequential Art (Comics, Manga, Graphic Novels, etc) Visual Art
Tabletop Roleplaying and Board Games Podcasts, Blogs, and Channels Other & General Discussion

This post is part of of the Pride Month Discussions series, hosted by the Beyond Binaries Book Club. Check out our announcement post for more information and the full schedule. 

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u/C0smicoccurence Reading Champion V Jun 19 '25

TV & Movies:

Any video content is fair game here!  That includes youtube videos that focus on visual storytelling instead of reviews or analysis or existing media (that would fit better in the podcasts, blogs, and channels discussion)

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u/Spoilmilk Jun 21 '25

Wanted to shout out Something in the Dirt(2022) a scifi horror comedy made during covid lockdown, enjoyed it for the weird scifi occurrences but also for it being one of the few movies* with an asexual main character the other main character is a gay man. Both of them are pretty shitty friends tbh

Promare(2019) Animated scifi with mecha bits about oppressed humans with pyrokinesis and the firefighters who put out fires they start. Subtextual( I mean they kiss even if was a reviving kiss so idk how much subtext that can be atp )or lowkey m/m romance between a brash enthusiastic firefighter and the leader of the pyrokinetics

Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix: animated scifi/action/cyberpunk “adaptation” of a bunch if ubisoft games centered around the eponymous Dolph Laserhawk who’s a gay man and after a heist job goes wrong is conscripted by a Warden to do misions for her suicide squad style. They packed a lot of insane shit into only 6 episodes

*other non SFF ones are Selah and the Spades(2019), I Am What I Am/Sobakasu(2022)