Army gays, tortured playwrights, sapphic painters & more queer period pieces to stream this weekend
Welcome to your weekend streaming recommendations, a.k.a. the Weekend Watch, a handy guide to the queerest film and TV content that’s just a click away!Everyone’s talking about the new miniseries Fellow Travelers, which chronicles the intense relationship between two men (out actors Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey) from the McCarthy-era 1950s to the AIDS-riddled 1980s.
While most of the discourse has understandably been about the sweaty sex scenes—that must be the first gay toe-sucking scene on mainstream TV, right?—Fellow Travelers has us thinking about other sexy period dramas that tell our community’s stories throughout history.Read on for more excellent queer period dramas to stream this weekend.Written and directed by Peeter Rebane, this 2021 romantic drama tells the story of Sergey (Tom Prior), a young Soviet private, who falls in love with the confident and more experienced Roman (Oleg Zagorodnii) during the Cold War.
Roman and Sergey’s intense love affair continues for several years, with the usual obstacles—marriage, babies, the KGB—getting in the way of their happiness.
Firebird is a sensual, melodramati,c and occasionally overwrought film, but the boys sure are cute! Interestingly, Firebird is based on a real-life memoir, The Story Of Roman, by Sergey Fetisov, who Rebane was able to interview prior to his passing.Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
