Best TV shows and movies to watch during Pride Month

Pride Month is here, and as we do every year, we’re celebrating – not just with joy and triumph, but with the reflection, honesty and humanity that the best LGBTQ+ storytelling brings.

This June, Virgin TV’s Pride collection brings together some of the most powerful, funny, moving and downright brilliant queer TV and film available to stream right now, from Sky Atlantic on demand to Disney+, Sky Cinema, Sky Documentaries and beyond.

Here’s everything in the collection and why you should be watching.

Stream it now in Sky Atlantic on demand

The most talked-about show of 2026 is also one of the most beautiful LGBTQ+ love stories in recent memory. Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams, Allegiance) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie, Joker: Folie À Deux) are two of the biggest stars in Major League Hockey, bound by ambition, rivalry and a magnetic pull neither of them fully understands. Shane and Ilya must decide if there is room in their fiercely competitive world for something as fragile and as powerful as real love. Watch the whole thing first and then go in search of the memes. Trust us on this one…

Stream seasons 1-5 now in Sky Atlantic on demand

The Emmy-winning comedy series Hacks returned for its fifth and final season, and it has never been better. In the aftermath of mistaken and unflattering news reports that she passed away, stand-up comic Deborah Vance (Jean Smart, Mayor Of Easttown) and writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) return to Las Vegas more determined than ever to secure Deborah’s legacy. It’s a show with strong LGBTQ+ representation, a diverse queer ensemble cast and an authentic portrayal of bisexuality, gay icons and the broader culture, all wrapped in some of the sharpest writing on television. All five seasons are available now.

Stream it now in Sky Cinema on demand. Cert 18

Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Pillion is a genuinely surprising and deeply felt British romantic drama. Harry Melling (The Queen’s Gambit) plays Colin – shy, introverted and looking for something he can’t quite name – who meets Ray (Alexander Skarsgård, The Northman), a mysterious, impossibly handsome biker who invites him into a dom-sub relationship governed by rules Colin has never encountered before. What follows is a beautifully observed exploration of identity, desire and what it means to find yourself through someone else. A powerful yet funny depiction of modern queer culture that feels truly unique.

Stream seasons 1-3 now in Apps > Disney+

Ryan Murphy’s IMDB page is longer than an itemised bill at an open bar. But while he’s had bigger hits than Pose, it arguably remains his most significant piece of work. Set in New York’s underground ballroom scene in the late 1980s and spanning a time period of 10 years, it made history by featuring the largest cast of transgender actors ever assembled for the main roles in a scripted TV show. Michaela Jaé Rodriguez leads as Blanca Rodriguez-Evangelista, a trans woman living with HIV who builds a chosen family around her, joined by Dominique Jackson, Indya Moore, Angelica Ross, Hailie Sahar and Billy Porter (Kinky Boots) as the irrepressible Pray Tell. It’s about community, survival, found family and the will to be seen. Extraordinary.

Stream it now in Apps > Channel 4 + Apps > Disney+

When it landed amid lockdown in 2021 (the lockdown where we’d long got bored of banana bread and online quizzes), It’s A Sin became a huge cultural phenomenon and turned its cast into stars. The story of five young adults coming of age in 1980s London under the shadow of the HIV and AIDS crisis, it’s an evocative and unavoidably emotional journey through a horrifying (and horrifyingly recent) period in British history, written with Russell T Davies’s signature frankness, vulnerability and wit. If you love this, Davies’s spiritual successor Tip Toe is also available on Channel 4 now, which is also essential viewing.

Stream it now in Sky Atlantic on demand

Queer representation in video games is patchy (to put it mildly), but The Last Of Us was something of a trailblazer, and its award-winning TV adaptation followed suit. Its first season gave us one of the most beautiful 75 minutes of television in recent memory – the tender love story of Bill (Nick Offerman, Parks & Recreation) and Frank (Murray Bartlett, The White Lotus), which expanded on the game’s source material in ways that felt genuinely revelatory. The second season, meanwhile, brought the blossoming love between Ellie (Bella Ramsey, Time) and Dina (Isabela Merced, Superman) to the screen with the same care and emotional honesty. In a story about survival that sometimes shows humanity at its worst, it turns out love is the point.

Stream seasons 1-3 now in Sky Comedy on demand

Many great TV shows get a little lost among the deluge of “content” dropping every second. If you haven’t watched the criminally under-the-radar Somebody Somewhere, it’s going to quickly become one of those shows you end up recommending to everyone to watch. Bridget Everett (Fun Home) plays Sam, a sharp, cynical 40-something who returns to her conservative hometown in Kansas after her sister’s death, where she finds the people she least expected to become her people. Inspired by Everett’s own life, the show is full of warmth, music, LGBTQ+ community and the specific kind of comedy that’s really about something.

Stream seasons 1-3 now in Apps > Disney+

The charming teen coming-of-age series spun off from the 2018 romantic comedy film Love, Simon follows Victor Salazar (Michael Cimino), a 16-year-old navigating a new high school, a new city and the gradual, messy, joyful process of coming to terms with his sexuality. Produced and narrated by Nick Robinson (the titular Simon in the original movie), and featuring a warm ensemble cast including George Sear, Ana Ortiz and Anthony Keyvan, Love, Victor is exactly the show a younger generation needed to see – and it paved the way for shows like Heartstopper, proving to studios that positive and relatable LGBTQ+ teen stories could also be massive mainstream successes. All three seasons are available to stream now.

Stream seasons 1-4 now in Sky One on demand

When drag became a political battleground in the ever-changing “culture wars” that dominate news channels and online discourse, We’re Here did something simple and devastating: it showed what drag actually looks like up close. The Emmy Award-winning series follows renowned drag queens and RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni – including Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela, Eureka O’Hara, Sasha Velour, Priyanka and Jaida Essence Hall – as they travel to small towns across America, recruit local residents to perform in one-night-only drag shows and change lives in the process. It’s joyful, moving and quietly radical: Variety called it the show “we need right now”, and it was not wrong.

Stream it now in Sky Documentaries on demand

Pee-wee Herman might not have had the same cultural impact over here as he did across the pond, but this two-part documentary about Paul Reubens – the man behind the iconic comedy character – is still a fascinating watch. Director Matt Wolf sat with Reubens for more than 40 hours of deeply personal interviews before Reubens’s death in 2023, in which the actor spoke for the first time about his sexuality, the legal troubles that derailed his career and the exhausting effort of keeping his private life private for decades. Featuring contributions from Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is The New Black), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) and director Tim Burton (Batman), it’s a portrait of a brilliantly creative yet deeply complicated man.

Available to buy or rent on Virgin Media Store or stream in Apps > ITVX. Cert 15

Girlhood director Céline Sciamma’s masterpiece. Set on a windswept island in 18th-century France, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire follows Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a painter commissioned to secretly create a portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), a young aristocrat who has so far refused to sit for any artist. Over a handful of days, as Marianne watches and Héloïse begins to look back, something extraordinary and inevitable unfolds between the two women. Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival as well as the unofficial Queer Palm, and sitting at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, this is one of the great love stories of contemporary cinema – a statement we say with zero hyperbole.

Stream it now in Sky Atlantic on demand

An all-star cast including Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Nicholas Galitzine (Red, White & Royal Blue) and Tony Curran (Mayflies) lead this historical drama based on an outrageous true story taken from the pages of Benjamin Woolley’s non-fiction book The King’s Assassin. Moore plays Mary, the Countess of Buckingham, who decides that she will mould her son George (Galitzine) to seduce King James I (Curran). If George succeeds, it means they become richer, more titled and more influential than any other nobles in the country. Based on Galitzine’s cheekbones alone – which could cut through diamonds – you’d suspect Mary is on to a winner…

Available to buy or rent on Virgin Media Store. Cert 15

Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2017 (yep, not La La Land) and almost a decade on, it’s still essential. Told across three chapters of Chiron’s life – as a boy, a teenager and a young man – it’s a tender, heartbreaking and gorgeously shot story of a Black gay man growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami, and the people who shaped him. Mahershala Ali (True Detective) and Naomie Harris (No Time To Die) deliver career-best performances, while Janelle Monáe (Hidden Figures) makes a stunning film debut. One of the greatest American films of the 21st century. If you haven’t seen it, this is the month to change that.

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