HBO Max Celebrates Pride This June By Launching A Custom Short-Form Content Series Produced By Human By Orientation And Partnering With Three Queer Collectives Across The Country

On June 1, HBO Max will launch into Pride 2022 through a full curatorial and design refresh of its LGBTQ+ Voices collection. The page seeks to uplift, educate, and inspire all members of the LGBTQ+ community and beyond year-round. Titles that reflect the vibrant, nuanced spectrum of queerness will be prioritized and elevated across all pages, displaying HBO Max’s ongoing commitment to the LGBTQ+ community and overall diversity, inclusion and representation. The month-long celebration also includes free sampling of select titles available on Watch Free Episodes on HBO Max

Additionally, beginning June 1st, the collection will include custom, short-form content series produced by Human By Orientation. These series will showcase and amplify the voices of HBO Max LGBTQ+ talent such as “Hack’s “Hannah Einbinder, “Legendary’s “Dashaun Wesley, Leiomy Maldonado, Jameela Jamil, and Law Roach, “Somebody Somewhere’s” Murray Hill and Jeff Hiller, and “We’re Here’s” Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela, and Eureka. The featured content will include: “Queerness in Conversation,” “Culture Closeups,” Serving Lewks, and “Get Ready With Me.”

As part of its Pride Month curations, HBO Max will partner with DC to host a Super Hero Pride tray, consisting of titles from the DC Multiverse that feature characters in the LGBTQ+ community such as “Naomi “(premieres 6/1), “Batwoman,” “Harley Quinn,” “Young Justice,” “Constantine: City of Demons, Doom Patrol,” and “Peacemaker.”

Throughout the month of June, HBO Max’s Human By Orientation will also partner with queer collectives across 3 markets (LA, Miami, and NYC) to bring the community back together to celebrate Pride in person.

Starting on June 4th in Los Angeles, Human By Orientation kicks off a month of Pride collaborations by partnering with The Party By Ostbahnhof on “SCENE.” This showstopping event about freedom, fashion, and fearlessness will feature a lineup of queer DJs and incorporate memorable photo moments from iconic HBO Max series.

On June 19th, Human By Orientation will team-up with Black, queer collective, Masisi, for its Pride and Juneteenth celebration in Miami. Programming will feature wellness workshops and skincare services by Black practitioners, followed by a panel discussion titled “Art and Dance Floors as a Platform for Healing,“ and finally a night of music and performances by Black, queer creatives.

Finally, kicking off New York City Pride weekend on June 24th, Human By Orientation will partner with Brooklyn-based collectives Club Carry, xCakes, and DickAppointment to host their celebration, “GARDEN.” The event will start with community-centered discussions around queer nightlife and lead into a party with sets by notable, queer DJs.

HBO Max’s Human By Orientation elevates and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community — encouraging people to express their proudest, queerest selves. Throughout their year-round programming, they create fearlessly queer spaces that aim to expand dialogue and uplift the community.

Key Pride event dates below:

Saturday, June 4

• Ostbahnhof x Human By Orientation LA event

June 10-12

• LA Pride

Sunday, June 19

• Masisi x Human By Orientation Miami event

Friday, June 24

• Club Carry x xCakes x DickAppointment x Human By Orientation NYC event

June 24-26

• NYC Pride

Below you will see a list of curations that will be included on HBO Max’s LGBTQ+ Voices page:

Movies:

• Acuitzeramo, 2022 (HBO)
• And the Band Played On (HBO)
• At Last, 2020
• Beach Rats, 2017 (HBO)
• Bessie, 2015 (HBO)
• Best in Show, 2000 (HBO)
• Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer (HBO)
• Caro Comes Out, 2019 (HBO)
• Coastal Elites, 2020 (HBO)
• Desert Hearts, 1985
• Dog Day Afternoon, 1975
• El Nombre del Hijo, 2021 (HBO)
• Happy Together, 1997
• How to Survive a Plague, 2012
• Kajillionaire, 2020 (HBO)
• Language Lessons, 2021
• Larry Kramer In Love & Anger (HBO)
• Life Partners, 2014 (HBO)
• Looking: The Movie, 2016 (HBO)
• Lupe, 2021 (HBO)
• Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (HBO)
• My Days of Mercy, 2017 (HBO)
• Nudo Mixteco, 2021 (premieres 6/3, HBO)
• Pariah, 2011 (HBO)
• Paris is Burning, 1990
• Presenting Princess Shaw (HBO)
• Shiva Baby, 2021 (HBO)
• Skin Can Breathe, 2022 (HBO)
• Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known (HBO)
• Suited (HBO)
• The Birdcage, 1996 (HBO)
• The Color Purple, 1985
• The Fallout, 2022
• The Haunting, 1963
• The Legend of the Underground (HBO)
• The Importance of Being Earnest, 2002 (HBO)
• The Matrix, 1999
• The Out List (HBO)
• The Times of Harvey Milk, 1984
• The Trans List (HBO)
• Transhood (HBO)
• Tu Me Manques, 2021 (HBO)
• Victor/Victoria, 1982
• Welcome to Chechnya (HBO)
• When I Knew (HBO)
• Wig (HBO)

Series:

• Angels in America (HBO)
• Batwoman
• Dafne and the Rest
• David Makes Man
• Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Equal
• Euphoria (HBO)
• Euphoria: Rue and Jules (HBO)
• Fast Foodies
• Full Bloom
• Gentleman Jack (HBO)
• Gossip Girl (2021)
• Hacks
• Irma Vep (premieres 6/6, HBO)
• It’s A Sin
• Legendary
• Looking (HBO)
• Los Espookys (HBO)
• Mrs. Fletcher (HBO)
• Nuclear Family (HBO)
• Our Flag Means Death
• PAUSE with Sam Jay (HBO)
• Queen Stars
• Queer You Are
• Search Party
• Seeing America with Megan Rapinoe (HBO)
• Six Feet Under (HBO)
• Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
• Sort Of
• Steven Universe
• The Baby (HBO)
• The Other Two
• The Sex Lives of College Girls
• The Wire (HBO)
• Todxs Nosotrxs (HBO)
• Tuca & Bertie
• Veneno
• We Are Who We Are (HBO)
• We’re Here (HBO)
• Wellington Paranormal

Documentaries:

• A Family is a Family is a Family: A Rosie O’Donnell Celebration (HBO)
• Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer (HBO)
• Caro Comes Out (HBO)
• Equal
• How to Survive a Plague
• Larry Kramer: In Love & Anger (HBO)
• LFG
• Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (HBO)
• McQueen (HBO)
• Nuclear Family (HBO)
• Paris is Burning, 1990
• Presenting Princess Shaw (HBO)
• Six By Sondheim (HBO)
• Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known (HBO)
• Suited (HBO)
• The Gospel According to André (HBO)
• The Lady and the Dale (HBO)
• The Legend of the Underground (HBO)
• The Out List (HBO)
• The Times of Harvey Milk, 1984
• The Trans List (HBO)
• Transhood (HBO)
• Welcome to Chechnya (HBO)
• When I Knew (HBO)
• Wig (HBO)

Comedy:

• And Just Like That… (S1)
• At Home with Amy Sedaris (S3)
• Awkwafina is Nora From Queens (S2)
• Best in Show, 2000 (HBO)
• Betty (HBO)
• Coastal Elites, 2020 (HBO)
• Genera+ion
• Hacks
• Looking (HBO)
• Looking: The Movie, 2016 (HBO)
• Los Espookys (HBO)
• Mrs. Fletcher (HBO)
• Muy Gay Too Mexicano, 2020
• My Dad Wrote A Porno (HBO)
• My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres (HBO)
• Our Flag Means Death
• Perfect Life (Vida perfecta)
• Rosie O Donnell: A Heartfelt Standup (HBO)
• Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel (HBO)
• Sally4Ever (HBO)
• Search Party
• Shiva Baby, 2021 (HBO)
• Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
• Sort Of (CBC) (S1)
• The Baby (HBO)
• The Birdcage, 1996 (HBO)
• The Importance of Being Earnest, 2002
• The Other Two
• The Sex Lives of College Girls
• Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted (HBO)
• Tig Notaro: Drawn (HBO)
• Tuca & Bertie
• Unpregnant
• Victor/Victoria, 1982
• Wellington Paranormal
• Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (HBO)

About Ostbahnhof
Ostbahnhof champions people of color, femmes, trans, gender non-confirming and non-binary folx, underprivileged people, disabled people, and our trusted family and friends first. It is a safe space for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and every identity under the queer umbrella community. It is our playground for music, fashion, art and sexual expression. It’s intersectional, inclusive, insanity.

About Masisi
Masisi is creating the Future we envision for all our people. We are working towards a world of liberation that allows Black Queer people to show up as themselves at ease and leisure. One where we are energized and regenerated instead of depleted. Through wellness, healing sounds, art, dance and performance, we celebrate our people and create the freedom we deserve.

About xCakes x Club Carry
In July of 2021 xCakes founder Pauli Cakes and Club Carry founder ANTPUKE joined forces on a collaborative series of events and fundraisers known as “xCakes x Club Carry” or “Club Cakes”.

xCakes and Club Carry, together and as individual entities organize parties, mutual aid, panels and events with the intention of uniting marginalized communities and providing intentional spaces for radical love and open artistic expression for queer and trans folks.

Both collectives capture and activate the essence of pure, uncensored energy, genre bending sounds and radical self expression.

About DickAppointment
Creating spaces that celebrate and elevate the black and brown queer community while giving everyone a chance to turn a look and get down.

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