WATCH: The gayest movie & TV trailers that dropped in October 2025

Halloween is just around the corner, which means that somehow October is nearly over already. If you’ve been preoccupied with fretting over the state of the world and/or preparing your funny/skimpy/impossibly niche costume, then you might’ve missed the trailers for some highly anticipated queer movies & TV shows that dropped over the past month.

Of late, we’ve been treated to previews for all sorts of up-and-coming LGBTQ+ entertainment, including a gay hockey player romance that looks like Red, White & Royal Blue: On Ice, a throwback sapphic action romp, a sweet Indian love story, a thrilling Lithuanian neo-noir, a documentary about the resilience of queer love, and campy new legal drama that we guarantee stars at least one of your favorite actresses, if not all of them!

To help you stay ahead of it all, we’ve assembled a recap of the best and gayest trailers that hit the internet throughout October with reminders of when and where you can watch each title.

Check them all out below and mark your calendars accordingly!

All’s Fair

Amidst her years-long journey to become an actual qualified attorney, Kim Kardashian linked up with super-producer Ryan Murphy so she could play one on TV. The series follows the improbably glamorous, highly campy case-of-the-week adventures of an all-female law firm in LA, which sees Kardashian surrounded by icons like Niecy Nash-Betts, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Teyana Taylor & a scenery-chewing Sarah Paulson as their devious adversary. With that amount of beloved actresses, All’s Fair seems designed to gag the gays.

New episodes streaming exclusively on Hulu, with the first three episodes dropping November 4.

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Stone Cold Fox

A throwback romp with a sapphic twist, the 1980s-set Stone Cold Fox stars Kiernan Shipka—a.k.a. Mad Men‘s own Sally Draper—as the titular Fox, a young woman who recently broke out of a cultish commune in search of her family. But when the queenpin Goldie (Krysten Ritter), who also happens to be her ex-girlfriend, kidnaps her younger sister with the help of dirty cop Sgt. Breaker (Kiefer Sutherland), Fox embarks on a one-woman mission for vengeance. Honestly, we’re living for Shipka in lesbian action hero mode!

Opening in select theaters on November 7.

Come See Me In The Good Light

Though documentary filmmaker Ryan White in best known for telling stories about why larger-than-life pop culture icons matter, from Dr. Ruth to Pamela Anderson, his latest is a decidedly more intimate affair, honing in on the relationship between queer poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley as the former copes with a terminal cancer diagnosis. Even if you’re not familiar with “rock star” poet Gibson’s work, you’ll be moved by their story of resilience, which effortlessly blends heartbreak with humor & radical joy in the face of an uncertain future.

Streaming exclusively on AppleTV+ on November 14.

Stop The Insanity: Finding Susan Powter

One of the original wellness influencers, Susan Powter became instantly iconic in the ’90s thanks to her fitness informercials with the catchphrase, “STOP THE INSANITY!,” which she parlayed into a career as a best-selling author & host of her own talk show. But after dramatically walking away from Hollywood, she now lives a quiet life below the poverty line in Las Vegas as an openly queer woman who’s been put through the ringer. This fascinating doc charts her rocky journey and catches up with her as she prepares to stage a comeback.

Opening in select theaters on November 19 in LA & November 21 in NYC.

Cactus Pears

From first-time feature filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, Cactus Pears is a sweet and sensitive gay romance in a place you might not expect to find one: rural India. After his father’s passing, thirty-something Anand (Bhushaan Manoj) and his mother reluctantly leave city life in Mumbai for the 10-day grieving ritual at his ancestral home, where distant family members continually pester him about when he’ll find a wife. There, he reconnects with a childhood friend (Suraaj Suman), and is surprised by the newfound spark between them.

In select theaters on November 21.

Heated Rivalry

Adapted from Rachel Reid’s gay romance series Game Changers, this Canadian series explores the love affair between two rival hockey players: Montreal Meteors captain Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storie), the Russian-born “playboy” of the Boston Raiders. What begins as a secret teenage fling becomes a years-long journey towards love and self-acceptance as the two try to balance their passionate relationship with the stress of their athletic careers. It may all unfold on ice, but this series looks red-hot!

Premiering on Canadian network Crave on November 28; stay tuned for U.S. release details.

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Night In West Texas

Back in 1981, a young, gay Apache man James Harry Reyos was arrested and charged for the murder of a closeted Catholic priest, which he strangely confessed to despite evidence to the contrary. Decades later, his case is reopened and a passionate advocacy group fights to exonerate Reyos, exposing a corrupt system that took advantage of his queer, indigenous identity in the process. From Peabody-winner Deborah S. Esquenazi, this eye-opening doc upends the conventions of the true crime genre to tell a moving story of redemption. 

Opening in select theaters on December 5.

Pillion

The kink-friendly queer rom-com we’ve all been waiting for, Pillion is the story of a quiet loner (The Old Guard‘s Harry Melling) and the hunky, leather-clad biker (Alexander Skarsgård) who makes him his new sub. The debut from writer-director Harry Lighton, the film doesn’t skimp on its portrayal of dom/sub culture—the trailer alone features bottom-less wrestling singlets, sex toy talk, and plenty of pleasure as pain—but with a big, beating heart beneath all the whips and chains. It’s the dom-daddy role Skarsgård was seemingly born to play!

Opening in UK theaters on November 28 and in US theaters on February 6, 2024

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The Activist

Described by its director Romas Zabarauskas as a sort of “reverse Cruising,” this Lithuanian thriller follows closeted Andrius (Robertas Petraitis) as he seeks to avenge the murder of his human rights activist boyfriend by going deep undercover within the local extremist, far right-wing group to seek out the man who did it. But as he gets deeper in and closer to what he’s looking for, he comes to realize he just might be surrounded by people living double lives. Timely and terrifying, The Activist is a neo-noir for the modern age.

Screening at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on Nov. 14; stay tuned for wider release details.