May 2026 is sapphic in a really excellent way – we’ve got an animated lesbian space princess fighting incels in space, a Canadian air ambulance show with not one but multiple queer women in the main cast, our favourite couples therapist back with a lesbian couple in the mix, lesbian comedy royalty Wanda Sykes returning to Netflix, and Charli xcx finally letting her very queer fanbase in on her arena tour fever dream. Here’s what to clear your schedule for this month.
Couples Therapy season 5 – Paramount+ (15 May)
Dr Orna Guralnik is back to fix us all – or at least to fix four new couples in crisis while we watch from the sofa with a glass of wine and a slightly elevated heart rate. The sapphic hook: one of this season’s couples is a lesbian couple, navigating the kind of long-term relationship questions Orna is genuinely brilliant at unpacking.
The other three couples? A volatile marriage being torn apart by stark political differences, a couple blindsided by the discovery of secret paid cuddling sessions (yes, really), and teenage sweethearts who, 20 years on, are wondering if they’ve outgrown each other. Couples Therapy has consistently been one of the most thoughtful, non-exploitative reality formats on TV – season 4 was up 30% in viewership on the previous season, and Orna remains the queer therapist of our collective dreams.
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Watch on: Paramount+ (UK and US). All nine episodes streaming on 15th May.
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Wanda Sykes: Legacy – Netflix (19 May)
Lesbian comedy icon Wanda Sykes is back on Netflix with her third stand-up special for the platform, Legacy. Filmed live at her alma mater Hampton University and directed by Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust), it promises an hour of Wanda’s signature sharp observational humour and direct delivery – with the personal angle of returning to the place where it all started.
Wanda has been a mainstay of queer comedy for over two decades – from her early stand-up to The New Adventures of Old Christine, Black-ish, The Upshaws and her hosting duties at the Oscars. She’s also been one of the most consistent, high-profile lesbian voices in mainstream American comedy, married to her wife Alex since 2008 with twins. A new hour from Wanda is always a good night in.
Watch on: Netflix (UK and US). 19th May.
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SkyMed season 4 – Paramount+ (21 May)
If you haven’t yet got into SkyMed, season 4 is your sign. The Canadian air ambulance drama – which creator Julie Puckrin once described as “a kissing show with airplanes” – is one of the most quietly sapphic shows on streaming, with bisexual pilot Lexi (Mercedes Morris), her butch lesbian girlfriend Stef (Sydney Kuhne), and queer flight nurse Crystal (Morgan Holmstrom) all returning for the new season.
The show takes its queer storytelling seriously – the writers’ room includes both Indigenous and queer writers, and the storylines are crafted with genuine care rather than dropped in for representation points. Season 4 brings The L Word‘s Lauren Lee Smith into the cast as Captain Riley, a globe-trotting pilot with a connection to Wheezer’s past. All eight episodes drop at once.
Watch on: Paramount+ (UK and US). All episodes streaming 21st May.
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Lesbian Space Princess – in cinemas (22 May)
Yes, that is the actual title. Lesbian Space Princess is the animated film of the year for our community, landing in UK and Irish cinemas on 22 May after winning the Teddy Award for outstanding LGBTQIA+ cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Audience Award for Best Australian Feature at Sydney Film Festival.
Written and directed by South Australian creatives Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs (who are partners in real life), the film follows introverted Princess Saira, daughter of the lesbian Queens of Planet Clitopolis, after her bounty-hunter girlfriend Kiki is kidnapped by the “Straight White Maliens” – forgotten incels of the future who want to use Kiki as bait to steal Saira’s royal labrys (the most powerful weapon known to lesbian kind, obviously). It’s candy-coloured, properly funny, full of innuendo, and made by queer women with queer audiences specifically in mind. The reviews are excellent and the appetite for a film that is just unapologetically for us is huge. Go.
Watch in: cinemas (UK and Ireland). Released 22nd May.
The Moment – HBO Max (29 May)
Charli xcx’s Sundance mockumentary is finally hitting streaming. The Moment is an A24 film directed by Aidan Zamiri (the man behind a chunk of Charli’s music videos) in which Charli plays a fictionalised “hell version” of herself – a rising pop star navigating the absurdities of fame, label pressure, and her arena tour debut at the tail end of Brat Summer. A.G. Cook scored it. Bertie Brandes co-wrote it.
Caveat upfront: this isn’t a sapphic film in the traditional sense – there’s no lesbian storyline at the centre. But the cast is a who’s who of queer and queer-adjacent favourites (Rachel Sennott, Kate Berlant, Alexander Skarsgård, Kylie Jenner, Rosanna Arquette, Jamie Demetriou, Shygirl, Rish Shah), the official synopsis namechecks Charli’s “very queer, very online fanbase” as part of the plot, and let’s be honest – Brat Summer was a sapphic cultural moment whether anyone meant it to be or not. It grossed $5.1M theatrically and sits at 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics finding it overlong but praising Charli’s screen presence. For anyone who spent 2024 in green-tinted obsession, this is essential viewing.
Watch on: HBO Max (US) / Sky and NOW (UK). 29th May.
Other queer releases on our radar
A few more queer releases worth flagging this month. Richard Gadd’s Half Man (HBO Max / BBC iPlayer) wraps up its weekly run on 14 May – the Baby Reindeer creator’s bleak Glasgow-set follow-up about two stepbrothers whose mothers become a lesbian couple after leaving their respective husbands. The Guardian gave it five stars (we completely agree). A24’s The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo lands on Mubi on 15 May – a Cannes-winning Chilean drama about an 11-year-old girl growing up in a found queer family of trans performers in a 1980s mining town. And RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 11 returns to Paramount+ on 8 May with 18 returning queens battling it out in the Tournament of All Stars format for a $200,000 prize. We’re of course also keeping our ear to the ground with IKAGS2 – stay tuned.
See you on the sofa.
Nonchalant x
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