Through the story of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” the short showcases different types of bears and families when Goldilocks visits each of their homes.

]]> Director: Ed Hartwell
Year: 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Gender and Sexuality: Gay, lesbian
Animation Style: Stop motion
Genre: Fantasy, music(al)
Type: Explicit, short

Can currently be watched on YouTube: https://youtu.be/E_B2m3WMZp0


]]> Note: This film contains violence.

What happens after a man picks up a hitchhiker.

This film was based on actual events, with the story gathered from conversations between the director and someone he met in an online chat room. 

Regarding the film’s title: While some sites list it as Guy 101, I’m using guy101 since this is how the director lists the short on his Vimeo channel and in the 2012 book Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality and Animation edited by Jayne Pilling.

]]> Director: Ian Gouldstone
Year: 2006
Country: United Kingdom
Gender and Sexuality: Gay
Animation Style: Digital
Genre: Drama
Type: Explicit, short

Can currently be watched on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/7251094

]]> A mother discusses how she has become estranged from her father because he does not accept her sexuality.

The first film in a duology based on research conducted with British Asian individuals describing their experiences from within the LGBT community (see Chariot Riders).]]> Director: Kate Jessop
Year: 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Gender and Sexuality: Lesbian
Animation Style: Digital, stop motion
Genre: Drama
Type: Explicit, short

Can currently be watched on BFI Player or Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/134636712

 ]]> Note: This video contains unintentional misgendering for Judith Butler and Rahim Claude Redcar (Chris), reflecting their public identities in 2020. The tags for this short shall include their identities after 2020.

This sequel to Queer Heros (Jessop, 2016) showcases a new assortment of influential queer figures, including musician Janelle Monáe, YouTube essayist Natalie Wynn (also known as ContraPoints), queer theorist Judith Butler, and director Gregg Araki.]]> Director: Kate Jessop
Year: 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Gender and Sexuality: Drag, bisexual, gay, lesbian, nonbinary, queer, transgender
Animation Style: Digital, live-action blending, stop motion, traditional
Genre: Documentary
Type: Explicit, short

Can currently be watched on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/467051605

 ]]> After two gangsters steal a million dollars, they are unsure if they should trust each other.]]> Director: Léopold Dewolf
Year: 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Gender and Sexuality: Gay
Animation Style: Stop motion
Genre: Comedy, drama
Type: Explicit, short

Can currently be watched on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/36936364

]]> As his grandfather awaits surgery for his Pacemaker, Cody asks him for advice about a girl he has a crush on. His grandfather, however, has had difficulty with his grandson’s trans identity. During the surgery, however, the grandfather reflects on the importance of love and acceptance.

]]> Director: Christopher Lennertz, Brian Vincent Rhodes
Year: 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Gender and Sexuality: Transgender
Animation Style: Digital
Genre: Music(al), romance
Type: Explicit, short

Can currently be watched on Vimeo or YouTube: https://youtu.be/T-TNWHkcI-o

 ]]> Note: This video contains sexual content and unintentional misgendering of the musician Arca, reflecting her public identity in 2016. The tags for this short shall include her identities after 2016.

Showcases an assortment of influential queer figures, including activist Angela Davis, director and animator Norman McLaren, musician Debbie Smith, and artist Keith Haring. In 2020, a sequel to this short, Modern Queer Heroes (Jessop, 2020) was released.

]]> Director: Kate Jessop
Year: 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Gender and Sexuality: Gay, lesbian, nonbinary, queer, transgender
Animation Style: Digital, stop motion, traditional
Genre: Documentary
Type: Explicit, short

Can currently be watched on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/185201333

 ]]> Josie O'Dwyer, then an ex-inmate, narrates her experiences with the unjust and corrupt prison system in the United Kingdom. Though not explicitly stated, O'Dwyer's interest in women is briefly depicted in one scene, illustrating how officers prevented inmates from forming close bonds with each other.

Information available about O'Dwyer, including her sexuality, is limited. In the book Criminal Women: Autobiographical Accounts edited by Pat Carlen, O'Dwyer contributed the chapter, "Josie: Surviving Holloway... and other Women's Prisons." O'Dwyer delves into the ways homophobia occurs in the prison system, and the officer's cruelty towards prisoners they suspected to be queer. Including how officers would purposefully disrupt relationships between women, regardless if it was platonic or romantic. Regarding lesbian relationships in prison, she viewed it as such:

"Women need comfort and if you can get into a relationship in prison I, personally, think it's a good thing. It doesn't hurt to be comforted by another woman in prison, nobody should knock anyone for it."
 
Sadly, O'Dwyer commited suicide on October 27, 1997. An article from the Daily Gazette "Prison death riddle as inquest returns open verdict" published on November 13, 1998 discussed her potential interest in women. The article focused on an alleged relationship between O'Dwyer and a nurse that occurred prior to O'Dwyer's death. A later article "Leigh: Nurse's lesbian affair" published on November 18, 2002 again by the Daily Gazette provded additional information about the alledged relationship between the two women.


]]> Director: Marjut Rimminen
Year: 1987
Country: United Kingdom
Gender and Sexuality: Lesbian, queer
Animation Style: Traditional
Genre: Documentary
Type: Implicit, short

Can currently be watched on Vimeo or YouTube: https://vimeo.com/398308714

]]> Note: This film contains sexual content.

While attempting to paint a portrait of his deceased father, a son reflects on identity and relationships.]]> Director: David Crump
Year: 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Gender and Sexuality: Gay
Animation Style: Stop motion
Genre: Drama, experimental
Type: Explicit, short

Can currently be watched on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/871086951

 ]]> A short inspired by the different ways the director came out to his friends.

While the character does not explicitly state his identity, on Vimeo, the short is tagged gay and queer.

Hamish Steele is an Eisner Award-winning comic book author, animation director, television writer, and showrunner. Despite receiving outstanding critical praise for his work on Netflix's Dead End: Paranormal Park (adapted from his graphic novel DeadEndia), the show was canceled after two seasons. In 2023, at the GLAAD Awards, Dead End: Paranormal Park won for Outstanding Kids & Family Programming.]]> Director: Hamish Steele
Year: 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Gender and Sexuality: Gay, queer 
Animation Style: Digital
Genre: Comedy
Type: Implicit, short

Can currently be watched on Vimeo or YouTube: https://youtu.be/ybTE1oJpHxw

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