Knowledge Network programming highlights LGBTQ2S+ voices and stories
Knowledge Network is delighted to announce a selection of programming highlighting LGBTQ2S+ voices and stories from Canada and around the world. Discover 10 featured programs free to stream on all of Knowledge’s platforms.
Programs include classics such as Queer as Folk and Tales of the City, and new Vancouver-based films Emergence: Out of the Shadows and Someone Like Me that explore the current climate of Queer communities uplifting one another through struggles and successes. Enjoy a new drama, A Royal Secret, that depicts a forbidden affair between a monarch and a man that will leave you on the edge of your seat with every episode.
All programs are available to watch free and commercial-free on all Knowledge Network streaming services.
The Programs
A Royal Secret (Premieres July 24): The dramatized true story of a forbidden affair between a Swedish monarch and another man.
Someone Like Me (Premieres July 26): A gay asylum seeker from Uganda resettles in Vancouver with the help of a group of strangers from Vancouver’s queer space.
Emergence: Out of the Shadows (Premieres July 26): The Vancouver-based film explores the journey of self-love and acceptance of four Queer-identifying South Asian individuals.
Queer as Folk (Streaming Now): The chronicles of three gay men in Manchester, Stuart, Vince and 15-year-old Nathan.
Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things (Streaming July 13): A new generation of Inuit are breaking through 60 years of colonization and religion around sexuality.
Lip Service (Streaming Now): A humorous series following the lives of three lesbian women living in Glasgow searching for happiness.
Tales of the City (Streaming Now): Set in the 70s before the AIDS crisis, a young secretary travels to San Fransisco and explores the riveting gay culture of the city.
The Fruit Machine (Unlimited Streaming): Survivors of a decades long homosexual witch hunt recounts the pain of being targeted and betrayed by the Canadian government.
HappyTime Social Club (Streaming Now): The life of a gay man from Vancouver in the 1950s is put together and revealed when his belongings were found in a shoebox by a dumpster in 2015.
Jane Rule (Streaming Now): Author Anne Fleming examines the legacy of Jane Rule and how she changed the literary landscape for queer fiction.
