This movie rules and we're so lucky to have it. The fact she's included in an animated family feature, a genre notorious for queer exclusion, will genuinely change lives. Katie Mitchell is unapologetically queer, but her anxiety, insecurities about her future, and desire to make weird art feels relatable without being stereotypical. If you’re looking for a good one, the pickings are slimmer than a femme.

When it comes to gay romance on Netflix, pickings are slim. The Machines is first and foremost a genuinely wonderful family adventure comedy that is sure to quickly become an all-time favorite, but having a queer teen girl act as the film's protagonist is just the robot apocalypse defeating cherry on top. Kit (Henry Golding), a gay British Vietnamese man who left Saigon as a child after the Vietnam War, returns to the country to reconnect with his roots after spending his life feeling alienated and ostracized. As pop stars like Boy George and Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics began smashing gender roles, 17-year-old Eric begins to come. Edge of Seventeen is a groundbreaking coming of age story about a gay teen in 1984 Sandusky, Ohio from David Moreton and Todd Stephens. You didn't think we were going to make an LGBTQ+ Netflix list and not include the most groundbreaking piece of LGBTQ+ cinematic animation, did you? The Mitchells vs. The best LGBTQ+ shows and movies on Netflix.