Pride Month is here, which means parties, protests and plenty of queer television. Parades too: On June 9, Hulu will stream the 54th annual Los Angeles Pride Parade starting at 11 a.m.
; grand marshals include the actor and activist George Takei. The parade will be hosted by the “Good Morning America” weekend co-anchor Gio Benitez and the ABC7 news anchor Ellen Leyva. Whether for a vacation binge or a night at home with friends, air conditioning on blast and cocktails at the ready, here’s a guide to queer shows — new, classic and pioneering — to make your Pride Month merry.
‘Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution’ In 1970s New York, gay and Black communities got sweaty together in small clubs and basement bars to the beat of disco music, a genre that made its way into the global mainstream, thanks to singers like Donna Summer and Sylvester, and venues like Studio 54 . Described as a “revisionist history” of the disco age, this new docuseries reinforces disco as a defining gay music genre and a cultural phenomenon that brought together people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. (Disco also faced a hateful, anti-gay backlash.
) The three-part series also looks at how disco enabled gay men who were feeling newly empowered by the gay liberation movement to find joy and camaraderie (and sex) on the dance floor in the years before a plague changed everything. (Streaming on PBS.org June 1; airs on PBS June 18.
) Television This summer, you’ll have to say go.