Exploring LGBTQ+ Life in Singapore: People Like Us Season 3

Following the lives of four gay men, People Like Us, a short-form series from creator Leon Cheo, offers up a poignant reflection and insightful look at being gay in modern-day Singapore. The characters drift into one another’s worlds – and beds – as they navigate love, lust and life in the big city.

Picking back up with our central group, Season Three finds Joel (Josh Crowe) dealing with grief, struggling with the dating scene and binge-eating his feelings. Meanwhile, Ridzwan (Ifran Kasban) distracts himself with work and sex as Isaac (Steven Lim) falls deeper into his substance addiction. Finally, post-‘honeymoon phase,’ Rai (Hemant Ashoka) and Haniff (Syaheeran Othman) are facing new and unexpected challenges as a serodiscordant couple, one being HIV+ and one HIV-.

In addition to the sexual escapades and relationships that unfold between these characters, People Like Us explores themes of acceptance, community support, the challenges of dating, substance abuse and HIV awareness in the local LGBTQ+ community.

Watch the trailer for the newest season below and catch up on all the drama of People Like Us on Dekkoo. All three seasons are available now.

Exploring Sexuality in the Digital Age: My Sweet Prince

In a smoke-filled basement, lit only by the flicker of a screen and the occasional orange glow of a spliff, a teen boy named Tommy (Yoni Roodner) sits detached from his friends, paralyzed by the fear of his own sexuality.

Afraid of the intense attraction he feels towards his male friends, he chooses to forgo physical company and instead seeks out anonymized friendships online, carefully muffling the dial-up sound of the router for midnight chat sessions with his pen pal and confidant on MSN Messenger.

Set during the early days of the internet, My Sweet Prince, a clever short written and directed by London-based filmmaker Jason Bradbury, uses segments from the filmmaker’s own teenage VHS diaries, shot during childhood summers at his home on the Isle of Wight. This footage is spliced together alongside the fictional story of Tommy, a young boy wrestling with doubt and uncertainty while finding solace in the virtual company of his online crush.

Looking back at at a very particular moment in time, My Sweet Prince subtly examines how the internet’s arrival catalyzed an unprecedented set of formative experiences for a guinea pig generation of youngsters.

Watch the trailer for My Sweet Prince below. The short film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

Tethered Wings Brings a Powerful Story of First Love and Second Chances to Dekkoo

Scene from the Dekkoo exclusive film Tethered Wings

Some love stories never truly let go. That’s the emotional heartbeat behind Tethered Wings on Dekkoo, the newest addition to Dekkoo Originals & Exclusives — a deeply moving French drama about memory, regret, and the lasting power of first love.

Set across two timelines, Tethered Wings follows Paul, a man preparing for his wedding when he is suddenly confronted by Joseph, the boy he once loved and lost decades earlier. Their unexpected reunion reopens emotional wounds tied to a transformative summer in 1983 — a summer marked by passion, longing, and devastating homophobia that permanently altered the course of both their lives.

Directed by Thierry Binisti, Tethered Wings (originally titled Les Ailes Collées) blends tender romance with emotional suspense, gradually revealing the painful truth behind Paul and Joseph’s separation. The film explores how queer love can shape an entire lifetime — even when buried beneath decades of silence.

Fans of emotionally rich LGBTQ+ dramas like Weekend, Free Fall, and The Bubble will find a lot to love here. The chemistry between the younger and older versions of Paul and Joseph gives the film a haunting emotional continuity, while its themes of forbidden love, identity, and lost time feel painfully universal.

What makes Tethered Wings especially compelling is the way it balances intimacy with emotional tension. The film isn’t simply about rekindled romance — it’s about confronting the life you built after abandoning the life you truly wanted. Through flashbacks and present-day reckonings, Tethered Wings becomes a story about survival, forgiveness, and whether love can still endure after years of repression and fear.

The arrival of Tethered Wings continues Dekkoo’s commitment to bringing acclaimed international LGBTQ+ cinema to audiences looking for bold, emotional, and authentically queer storytelling. Alongside recent exclusives like Night Stage and beloved titles across the platform’s growing collection of gay movies and series, the film adds another unforgettable story to Dekkoo’s curated lineup.

Whether you’re drawn to sweeping queer romance, emotionally layered coming-of-age stories, or powerful international dramas, Tethered Wings is one you won’t want to miss.

Watch Tethered Wings now exclusively on Dekkoo.

Dark Comedy: Stimulants and Empathogens Review

An award-winning dark comedy from Poland, Stimulants and Empathogens follows Antek (Michal Murawski), a closeted gay teen from a wealthy family.

At the start of the film, Antek is harboring a hopeless crush on Kuba (Gracjan Kosyl), a fellow teen who just happens to be a drug dealer.

Looking to get closer, Antek invites Kuba to his family’s villa under the pretext of another deal. What he doesn’t know, however, is that Kuba is on a mission, ordered by his superiors in the drug trade, his father and brother. They suspect that Antek may be reselling their product at a profit.

What begins as a romantic comedy of errors soon turns into a social satire rollercoaster of clashing cultures.

Watch the trailer for Stimulants and Empathogens below. The short film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

A Big Gay Hairy Hit: Celebrating Bears in Hollywood

A hilarious and deeply touching documentary feature, A Big Gay Hairy Hit (also known as Where the Bears Are: The Documentary) tells the story of how three older gay ‘bears,’ working in Hollywood and tired of having their gay-themed ideas rejected by the mainstream, decided to self-produce their own independent web series.

Blending “The Golden Girls” with “Murder She Wrote,” the comedy series they created centers around three bear roommates who solve crimes.

Against all odds, Where the Bears Are became a sensation with gay audiences, running for seven seasons while becoming one of the most successful scripted web series of all time.

Featuring lead actors and creators Rick Copp, Joe Dietl, and Ben Zook, this retrospective documentary examines ageism, body-shaming, sex-positivity, the creative process and how friendship can deliver a finished product that is beloved all over the world.

Watch the trailer for A Big Gay Hairy Hit below. The documentary is now streaming on Dekkoo.

Front Cover: A Heartfelt LGBTQ+ Love Story

Ryan (Jake Choi) is a handsome fashion stylist living in New York City. He openly rejects his traditional Asian-American upbringing, fearing that it will prevent him from enjoying his life as an openly gay man.

Everything starts to change, however, when Ryan is given an assignment and begins working with Ning (James Chen), a famous and alluring Chinese actor.

Despite a rocky start, an unlikely romance develops between the two, leading Ryan to re-examine his roots and consider an enticing new path for his career, as well as his love life.

With Front Cover, Ray Yeung, the acclaimed director behind Cut Sleeve Boys, All Shall Be Well and Twilight’s Kiss, crafts a tender and entertaining look at clashing cultures and the ultimate triumph of romance, guaranteed to make you swoon.

Watch the trailer for Front Cover below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

‘Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing’ looks at how far gay rights have come in the UK

After decades of attempts to reform archaic laws that criminalized male homosexual acts as “gross indecency” – and to expunge the records of many convicted men – a new bill was finally passed in British Parliament. Narrated by Ben Whishaw, Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing tells the story of that long struggle.

A wave of post-WWII prosecutions compromised thousands of men, including the brilliant World War II computer pioneer and code-breaker Alan Turing. In 1967, a new “Sexual Offenses Act” partly decriminalized homosexual acts between consenting adults in England and Wales, but was not fully enacted until 2003, when the homophobic law was finally repealed. Full, unequivocal pardons for those convicted under the old law were still awaited.

In this riveting and informative documentary from director Rosemarie Reed, six different men tell individual stories of how Britain’s anti-gay laws impacted their lives while also examining the much-deserved Royal Pardon that was posthumously given to Alan Turing in 2013.

Watch the trailer for Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing below. The documentary is now available on Dekkoo.

A grieving lover seeks revenge in the tense Lithuanian thriller ‘The Activist’

Twenty-something printing house worker Andrius (Robertas Petraitis) is skeptical about the activist work of his boyfriend Deividas (Elvinas Juodkazis) and fears that they may soon become the targets of neo-Nazis.

Deividas is the head of “Rainbow Kaunas,” a group organizing the first Pride celebration in the second biggest city of Lithuania. One night, after coming back from a fight, Andrius finds that Deividas has been murdered.

Seeing indifferent reactions from the police – and from Lithuanian society at large – Andrius takes on a new mission: to infiltrate the local neo-Nazi organization, find his boyfriend’s killer and serve his own brand of justice.

The third and final entry in a new queer film trilogy from prolific writer-director Romas Zabarauskas – following 2020’s The Lawyer and 2023’s The Writer – The Activist is a stylish thriller with a strong sociopolitical message, celebrating the brave activists who stand up against threats to liberal democracy around the world.

Watch the trailer for The Activist below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo along with previous trilogy entries The Lawyer and The Writer.

The Magic of First Kisses in LGBTQ+ Films

First Kiss: Where Every Love Story Begins

There’s nothing quite like a first kiss—the moment nerves, excitement, and possibility collide.

With our newest Dekkoo Select, “First Kiss,” we’re celebrating that spark: the instant when attraction becomes something more. This curated collection of LGBTQ+ romance films captures the beauty, vulnerability, and thrill of first love across cultures and experiences.

Films That Capture the Spark

At the heart of this collection is First Kiss, a tender coming-of-age story set in Madrid, where a shy teen’s long-awaited date turns into a life-changing moment.

You’ll also find:

My Partner — a heartfelt exploration of young love and identity set against the backdrop of Hawaii
I Love You More — a bold, messy, and honest look at attraction and emotional complexity

Each film brings a unique perspective, but they all share one thing: that unforgettable moment when everything changes.

A Global Look at Queer First Love

From Europe to the U.S. and beyond, Dekkoo Select: First Kiss highlights stories from around the world—proving that the excitement of first love is universal.

These films explore:

the courage to be vulnerable
the joy of connection
the discovery of identity

Whether soft and tender or bold and unexpected, every story captures the emotional intensity of that first spark.

Why First Kisses Matter

A first kiss is more than romance—it’s a turning point.

It’s about stepping into who you are, taking emotional risks, and embracing connection. These films don’t just show love—they show the moment it begins.

Watch Dekkoo Select: First Kiss

Ready to feel the butterflies?

Watch Dekkoo Select: First Kiss now on Dekkoo and rediscover the magic of queer first love.