Hulu’s Pride Month Lineup: Queer Cowboys, ABBA Hits, & More
Thanks to the mad campaign of the Orange Felon and his right-wing fellow travelers to wipe the existence of the LGBTQ+ community from the average American’s ken, Pride Month celebrations in June 2025 take on a greater political tinge than usual. Fortunately, Hulu’s highlights this month are more than willing to meet the challenge. There are films that take viewers into the worlds of queer rodeo and Georgian dance. Both ABBA jukebox musical movies will get an airing. But the month’s highlight will give folks who’ve missed the local festival theatrical screenings the chance to hear the story of the closeted life of the first American woman in space, a story that doesn’t make her any less heroic.
Queer-friendly material aside, other highlights on Hulu this month include new seasons of an acclaimed restaurant dramedy and a game show where the winner is determined by whether they can answer a question only 1% of people get right. The director behind last year’s acclaimed Predator movie takes another trip in time to the same universe. Finally, Steven Soderbergh brings to the ghost story an old-school emphasis on mood rather than scares.
So check out some of these offerings and remember to wave those rainbow flags proudly and publicly.
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Beasts Of The Southern Wild–In the Louisiana marsh shantytown known as The Bathtub, 6-year-old Hushpuppy lives with her alcoholic father Wink. Even suffering from a terminal illness, the patriarch is determined to teach his daughter life survival skills. Yet could the girl survive in the face of the universe’s unraveling? A hurricane is coming and in her mind, the melting of the polar ice caps will bring both the waters that will drown The Bathtub and the mysterious boar-like prehistoric creatures known as Aurochs. Benh Zeitlin’s acclaimed fantasy follows the girl’s efforts to somehow restore the universe’s balance.
Boy Meets Girl–Trans 20-year-old Ricky (Michelle Hendley, who is trans) lives in Kentucky but wants to move to New York City to become a fashion designer. Until then, she deals with such problems as getting tired of male dates rejecting her. When the transwoman meets the wealthy Francesca, they become lovers even after Ricky comes out to the rich woman at best friend Robby’s urging. The real problems start popping up when cisgender Marine David returns early from his tour of duty in Afghanistan to his fiancee Francesca.
Idiocracy–In the words of the RogerEbert.com review website, Mike Judge’s movie is set in a future where “even at the highest levels of power, ignorance is flaunted and incompetence rewarded.” This is a satirical comedy, not a prescient documentary about the Orange Felon’s administration. When low-level Army slacker Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) and random hooker Rita (Maya Rudolph) accidentally get frozen for 500 years in a cryogenics experiment, they awaken to a world which has gone to pot thanks to the trifecta of political ineffectiveness, corporate greedheads, and crappy pop culture. In the present day, the experimental subjects would not be considered terribly bright; in this future world, Joe and Rita are considered geniuses.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again–Ol Parker’s sequel to the ABBA jukebox musical “Mamma Mia” (which is also playing this month) winds up being a better film than the original while presenting such beloved hits as “Waterloo” and “Knowing Me, Knowing You.” In 1979, college graduate Donna Sheridan (Lily James) sets out for the Greek island of Kalokairi to find her destiny, and carries anger at her frequently absent singer mother Ruby (Cher). In the present day, Donna’s daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) prepares to re-open the Hotel Bella Donna in honor of her recently deceased mother. Aside from the stress of this big event, Sophie also faces the possibility of separation from her husband Sky (Dominic Cooper).
The Namesake–Jhumpa Lahiri’s critically acclaimed novel gets a sensitive translation to the screen courtesy of director Mira Nair. Gogol Ganguli (Kal Penn) may have been born in America to immigrant parents Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli. But he’s felt alienated from both American life and his Indian heritage. Ashoke’s death, though, slowly pushes the son to understand the reason behind his name and the sacrifices his parents made to give him the best possible life chances.
June 3
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid–Office computer programmer Kobayashi gets an unexpected visitor: a female dragon named Tohru who transforms herself into a humanoid maid. Tohru has come to stay with Kobayashi in gratitude for the then-drunk programmer removing a holy sword from her back. Kobayashi’s new housekeeper definitely knows her cleaning stuff and is in love with her hostess. However, the dragon in human form also happens to be a magnet for other mystical creatures showing up at Kobayashi’s doorstep…
Presence–Director Steven Soderbergh’s divisive take on the ghost story genre gets the Sleeper of the Month award. Rebekah and Chris Payne, along with their daughter Chloe, have moved into a beautiful new suburban home. They sense that there’s a ghostly presence in the house, but the spirit ignores the Paynes’ attempts to communicate with it. However, the ghost seems determined to protect Chloe at any cost. What upturns the plot’s familiarity is the fact that what the viewer sees on screen represents the ghost’s point of view.
Yuri!!! On Ice Season 1—A string of competition losses capped by a terrible defeat at the Grand Prix Final convinces 23-year-old figure skater Yuri Katsuki to at least put his career on hold. A return to his hometown of Hasetsu in Kyushu leads to Katsuki performing a routine by his idol Russian figure skating champion Victor Nikiforov. But when secretly recorded footage of Katsuki’s performance reaches Nikiforov, the Russian skater offers to coach Katsuki and revive his career. However, teen Russian prodigy skater Yuri Plisetsky is determined to hold Nikiforov to a forgotten promise to coach him. When things don’t work out for the teen, the two Yuris wind up becoming rivals for the Grand Prix championship. And the growing romantic relationship between Katsuki and Nikiforov doesn’t make things any easier.
June 5
Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan–Traveling journalist Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen), who’s the sixth-most famous person in Kazakhstan, takes a trip to America to make a documentary about what makes this nation so great. However, in his cross-country travels (where he meets real unsuspecting people), he innocently pushes if not demolishes the boundaries of polite behavior and generally winds up leaving chaos in his wake.
Hot Shots!--”Top Gun,” among other popular films of the time, gets parodied at the hands of Jim Abrahams (co-writer of “Airplane!”). Inactive Navy pilot Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) is asked to return to active duty despite still having psychological problems surrounding the death of his father. Lt. Commander Block tells him he’s needed to make the top secret mission Operation Sleepy Weasel a success. But what Harley doesn’t know is that Block plans to use him to jinx the operation to justify the Navy’s purchase of airplane tycoon Mr. Wilson’s new “Super Fighter.”
National Anthem–Photographer Luke Gilford’s debut feature film draws on his experiences living on gay ranches and his photography work on gay rodeo subculture. While working at a gay ranch, young day laborer Dylan falls in love with transwoman Sky. Supposedly, Sky has an open relationship with her boyfriend Pepe, but the limits of that understanding are about to be tested. However, the main draw of this film is in its depictions of thriving queer American rural life, something rarely seen on film.
Not Her First Rodeo–This docuseries follows the Elite Lady Bull Riders as they risk life and limb in the world of professional bull-riding. Their goal with every eight-second bull-ride: a shot at the championship buckle.
Predator: Killer Of Killers–Dan Trachtenberg, director of last year’s hit movie “Prey,” returns with an animated anthology set in the “Predator” universe. A Viking raider guides her son on a revenge quest. In feudal Japan, a ninja fights his samurai brother in a struggle for succession. During World War II, a pilot investigates a threat to the Allied cause, one with its origins in outer space. These protagonists are three of human history’s fiercest warriors. But do they truly stand a chance against a Predator?
June 8
Scream (2022)–In this reboot of Wes Craven’s famed horror film franchise, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask. It’s 25 years after Woodsboro was rocked by the original Ghostface’s killing spree. When high school student Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega) is hospitalized after a home attack by a new Ghostface, the attack brings together friends of Tara and survivors of Ghostface’s earlier murder spree. Yet that reunion might be playing into the masked killer’s plan for a requel murder spree involving both newer and older generations of Ghostface victims.
June 10
And Then We Danced–The former Soviet republic of Georgia is a place where dance is taken so seriously that the culture’s traditional dances are expressions of the country’s national identity. Male dancer Merab trains in Tbilisi. He comes from a family of dancers: both his parents have danced and his younger brother attends Merab’s dance school. Merab hopes to ace the audition for a slot with the school’s main touring ensemble. However, new gifted dancer Irakli also plans to audition for the same slot. More problematically, Merab has started to fall in love with Irakli, but Georgia is not a gay-friendly country.
Call Her Alex–Alex Cooper was only 24 when she began the sex and dating podcast “Call Her Daddy.” The podcast became a hit thanks to its creating a space where its female listeners could feel seen and empowered. Six years later, Cooper is now the CEO of a media empire. Using the frame of the podcaster’s first live tour, the film takes a look at the evolutionary events that turned Cooper into the most influential female podcaster of her generation.
June 12
The 1% Club Season 2–It’s the return of this American adaptation of a popular British game show. However, there are a couple of tweaks from the first season. Amazon Prime will not be streaming the new season. First season host Patton Oswalt has been replaced by Joel McHale. Otherwise, the format is the same. 100 people are competing for a $100,000 prize. They are asked questions from a scientific survey, where the order of the questions depends on the decreasing number of people who give the right answer. Memory is less important than reasoning and skill, as the goal is to see how each contestant’s brain works. The winner will be the one who can ace every survey question.
June 16
My Happy Ending–Seo Jae-Won and Kwon Yoo-Jin may have graduated from the same university art department, but their post-graduate lives couldn’t be more different. Kwon’s undergoing a difficult divorce and her art career is fading away. Seo, on the other hand, is the CEO of a million-dollar furniture company and is also a social media influencer with a million followers. Her warm-hearted husband Heo Soon-Young may be a professor in industrial design, but he prioritizes his family above all else. A reconnection between the two graduates leaves Kwon jealous of Seo’s near-perfect life. So why are the people Seo trusts suddenly betraying her? What secrets are the people closest to Seo hiding?
June 17
Sally–Cristina Constantini’s touching documentary recounts the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. While the world knew of Ride’s love for space, they had little knowledge of the astronaut’s other love: her eventual partner Tam O’Shaughnessy. Homophobia kept Ride in the closet while she was alive. Now O’Shaughnessy comes forward to share the story of Ride’s life and her part in it. Your Must-See of the month.
Skincare–Aesthetician Hope Goldman (Elizabeth Banks) runs a shop in the heart of Hollywood. She’s renowned for her special facials and is launching a new line of beauty products. Trouble erupts when Angel Vergara moves into the empty store space across the alley from Hope’s store and literally becomes her nearest competitor. When Hope’s customers receive a fake message from the aesthetician claiming she has financial and emotional problems, the email hacking becomes the first of several events that will turn Hope and Angel’s rivalry violent. Based on a strange but true story.
June 23
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything—Jackie Jesko’s documentary recounts the life of famed television journalist Barbara Walters in her own words. In a life and career marked by highs and lows, Walters’ determination to succeed would lead to her becoming the first woman to co-anchor a national news program. But that would be the first of Walters’ many achievements in spite of the institutionalized sexism of then-male dominated broadcast journalism.
June 25
The Bear Season 4–It’s the new season of this Emmy winning dramedy about professional chef Carmy Berzatto’s efforts to turn a sandwich shop founded by his late brother into a fine dining establishment. Will chef Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edibiri) still be part of The Bear’s crew? Will Cicero pull the financial plug on funding The Bear? Finally, will Carmy’s restaurant get a highly coveted Michelin star?
June 30
The Actor–New York actor Paul Cole (Andre Holland) becomes stranded in a mysterious small town in 1950s Ohio. He has no recollection of how he got there because he has amnesia. But Cole does know he wants to get back home and reclaim both his life and his identity. Based on the Donald E. Westlake novel “Memory.”
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