It’s Pride month, and our screens are finally pulling their weight. June 2026 hands us Lesbian Jesus’s long-awaited directorial debut, a Cannes-winning French coming-of-age drama, a women’s football icon baring all, our animated space princess hanging on in cinemas, a vampire on a rock-and-roll arena tour, and a Jodie Foster murder-mystery in French. Here’s what to clear your schedule for this month.
Girls Like Girls – in cinemas (19 June)
Eleven years after the music video that taught a generation of us to feel our feelings, Hayley Kiyoko – Lesbian Jesus herself – is bringing Girls Like Girls to the big screen as her feature directorial debut. The film stars Maya da Costa as Coley and Myra Molloy as Sonya, with Levon Hawke and Zach Braff also in the cast. It’s a heartfelt coming-of-age story set over the course of one sun-drenched summer, where new-girl-in-town Coley falls in love for the first time while learning to accept herself.
This is the full-circle moment of the decade. The film expands the world of Kiyoko’s 2015 single and her bestselling 2023 novel, and she co-wrote the screenplay with Stefanie Scott, who played Coley in the original music video. There’s all-new music from Kiyoko too. Queer storytelling from someone who lived it, made it, and soundtracked it – this is the lesbian teen film we always deserved.
Watch in: cinemas. Released in the US on 19 June – UK and Australia dates are still to be confirmed, so watch this space.
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The Little Sister – US cinemas (5 June) / UK cinemas (10 June)
If you want something with more weight to it this month, The Little Sister (La Petite Derniere) is the one. Hafsia Herzi’s French coming-of-age drama follows Fatima, a young lesbian descended from Algerian immigrants in Paris, who is trying to balance her emerging desire for women with loyalty to her devout, tradition-minded Muslim family.
It arrives garlanded: it won both the Queer Palm and the Best Actress prize for newcomer Nadia Melliti at Cannes. What makes it special is the approach – Herzi rejects the tragedy-and-trauma cliches that so often define queer coming-of-age stories, centring instead one young woman’s relatively drama-free journey of self-discovery, one telling incident at a time. Tender, sexy and quietly radical.
Watch in: US cinemas, limited release from 5 June. In the UK, it opens from 10 June, beginning at Cine Lumiere in London, with wider arthouse screenings to follow.
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Gamechangers: The Ashlyn Harris Story – The Roku Channel (8 June)
One for the women’s football lovers. Gamechangers: The Ashlyn Harris Story is the first instalment in Roku’s new Gamechangers anthology of women’s sports documentaries, and its subject is a two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion and former USWNT goalkeeper.
The doc traces Harris’s journey from childhood through her college and professional careers to her post-retirement advocacy for LGBTQ rights and female athletes – sharing her triumphs and defeats both on and off the pitch. For anyone who has followed her career, this is the first time she’s telling the whole story herself.
Watch on: The Roku Channel from 8 June. UK availability of the Roku Channel is limited, so this one may be harder to catch on this side of the Atlantic.
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Lesbian Space Princess – In cinemas
If you didn’t catch it last month, the animated film of the year for our community is likely still playing in UK and Irish cinemas. Set on Planet Clitopolis, it follows Princess Saira, who embarks on a 24-hour space adventure to rescue her kidnapped ex. Candy-coloured, properly funny, full of innuendo, and made by queer women with queer audiences specifically in mind. We covered it in full last month, and it remains the most unapologetically-for-us release of the year. If it’s still on near you, go.
Watch in: cinemas (UK and Ireland), where still showing.
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A Private Life – UK cinemas (26 June)
Caveat upfront: this isn’t a sapphic film, but it stars one of our forever icons doing something we don’t see nearly enough of. A Private Life (Vie Privee) is Jodie Foster’s first French-language leading role in over two decades, and her French is reportedly impeccable. She plays Lilian Steiner, a renowned American psychoanalyst in Paris whose tightly knit world unravels after the sudden death of a patient. Convinced the death wasn’t what it seemed, she throws herself into her own investigation, dragging her affectionate ex-husband (Daniel Auteuil) along with her.
Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, it’s a nimble, Chabrol-tinged mystery-comedy that premiered out of competition at Cannes, and critics have called Foster entrancing in her most dexterous role in years. A treat for anyone who will happily watch Jodie Foster do anything.
Watch in: UK cinemas from 26 June.
What It Feels Like for a Girl – Prime Video (1 June, US)
Based on the memoir by trans trailblazer Paris Lees, the eight-part series follows Byron, a semi-autobiographical version of the author, a working-class school kid who escapes a small town for Nottingham and discovers more than just the hedonistic world of the noughties clubbing scene. Played by Ellis Howard, Byron is portrayed from adolescence through to coming out as a trans woman, falling in with a chosen family of glorious misfits along the way.
It’s raw, frank and often dark – it doesn’t flinch from the vulnerability and danger Byron meets – but it’s also tender, funny and ultimately a story about finding your people and your freedom. Lees, an executive producer, has spoken about wanting the show to bring a sense of community and light for trans people stuck in the kind of towns she grew up in. If you’re in the US, this one belongs at the top of your list.
Watch on: Prime Video (US) from 1 June. UK and Irish viewers can already find the series on BBC iPlayer, where it first aired.
You Can Live Forever – Netflix (4 June)
Newly streaming and very much worth your evening: You Can Live Forever is a tender, aching sapphic romance that deserves a wider audience. Set in 1990s Quebec, it follows teenager Jaime, a loner sent to live with her devout Jehovah’s Witness aunt and uncle after her father’s death. There she meets Marike, the daughter of a respected congregation elder, and their connection is immediate – a secret relationship of stolen touches and shared silences that becomes harder to hide as the community starts to notice.
Co-director Sarah Watts is a former Witness who left the faith at 13 and came out as gay, and that lived experience shows in the film’s detail and sincerity. It wears some of the lesbian-period-romance tropes openly, but its commitment to an authentic, deeply felt emotional world is what lifts it – eventually the girls are forced into an impossible position: choose faith, or choose love. A quiet heartbreaker.
Watch on: Netflix from 4 June.
Other queer releases on our radar
A few more queer releases worth flagging this month. Just landed in the UK: Tip Toe, Russell T Davies’s blistering new Channel 4 drama, which began on 31 May. Set in suburban Manchester, it follows neighbours Leo (Alan Cumming) and Clive (David Morrissey), whose 15 years of quiet co-existence curdles into something darker as one grows hostile to the other being gay. Likened to Queer as Folk meets Years and Years, it’s being called one of the most important shows of the year – a US date is yet to be confirmed. Interview with the Vampire season 3 returns to AMC+ (US) on 7 June, and this time Lestat goes full rock star, embarking on an electric multi-city tour while haunted by muses from his past. It isn’t sapphic, but it remains one of the most lavishly, centrally queer dramas on television – worth it for the costuming alone. Over on Netflix, two Thai BL dramas land on 5 June: I’m the Most Beautiful Count, in which a polarising queer singer wakes up in the body of a young nobleman in the Thonburi Kingdom, and This Love Doesn’t Have Long Beans, about a basil-stir-fry enthusiast training under a stern restaurant owner. The same day brings Riley to Tubi (US), a coming-of-age drama about a high-school athlete reckoning with his queer identity, starring Heated Rivalry‘s Connor Storrie. Netflix is also adding Shrill (seasons 1 to 3) on 8 June, Aidy Bryant’s genuinely delightful Portland-set comedy with a wonderful lesbian best friend in Fran.
See you on the sofa.
Nonchalant x
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This article was written by one of our creative team writers here at Nonchalant Magazine.
