#queer tv

It’s a Tuesday on Tumblr, and the Heated Rivalry fever is showing no signs of stopping. The adaptation of Rachel Reid’s bestselling novel about rival hockey players is light on hockey and heavy on good old enemies to lovers, and we’re so here for it. Please enjoy this collection of Hollanov art (and some Skip, for balance) to tide you over til Friday.

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it's like a Canadian screenwriting right of passage, even writers who aren't that into hockey find they have an idea rattling around in their brain and try it

In spite of this it may surprise people to learn Canada went decades without a hockey show. it seems like such an obvious idea right? thats why writers kept pitching it and yet...it just never happened. the possible reasons why belong in another post but the fact is people have spent years and years behind the scenes in Canada trying to get a hockey show off the ground (ice?)

I cant emphasize enough how this is not hyperbole. like if you gathered a bunch of Canadian screenwriters in a room and threw a rock (please don't throw rocks at Canadians or screenwriters) you'd hit someone who pitched a hockey show, and relatedly someone who could never get that greenlight

The show that finally broke the curse? of all shows the Letter Kenny spin off Shorsey which Premiered in 2022

Which is what makes Heated Rivalry so bonkers insane funny to me

It took Canada so long to get a hockey show out of development hell that once we finally figured out how to do it and make it viable we were able to speed run past 100 years of institutional and internalized homophobia in the NHL and just skip straight to hockey yaoi

House of Bellevue tells the story of Emm, a bi black man who moves from his provincial hometown to Berlin and becomes involved with the local ballroom community, hoping to join Mother Lia's House of Bellevue.

This ensemble show centers on a cast of majority PoC, queer characters, which is still the exception on German TV. It even features a middle-aged, asexual trans woman who gets to have a romance arc!

While many of the actors are newcomers, the cast also includes the iconic Florence Kasumba, known for playing Ayo in Black Panther and other MCU installments.

Since the TV station, ZDF Neo, hardly promoted this show at all, even in Germany most people have probably never heard of it, let alone watched it. Since I like to do a subtitling side project now and then next to my day job, I decided to create English subtitles, which you can find here along with instructions on how to access the episodes.

Please reblog and spread the word so this show gets some much-deserved love! If you're looking for queer media with a found family trope, breathtaking runway performances and, of course, lots of drama, check out House of Bellevue!