The LGBTQ+ advocacy group Out in Hollywood has unveiled the selections for the fifth annual Out Loud List, which highlights the best un-produced queer-focused TV pilot scripts from the past year.
Scripts in the 2025 Out Loud List cover a range of genres, from thrillers to comedies to sci-fi and more. Each script was nominated by queer professionals in the entertainment community and then evaluated through a blind review process led by Out Loud Hollywood’s founding board as well as a guest panel of queer producers and executives. Submissions are evaluated on a number of criteria and a queer storytelling lens adapted from GLAAD’s Vito-Russo Test.
Out in Hollywood has also partnered with Gersh, which will be working with the organization to further champion and support emerging queer voices in television.
The full list — which includes the writers’ name, a brief synopsis of each project, and rep info — can be seen below.
“Television has an incredible ability to meet people where they are – and invite them into lives, experiences, and perspectives beyond their own. At its best, storytelling doesn’t just foster empathy – it builds community,” said Logan Kriete, on behalf of the Out in Hollywood board. “These pilots reflect bold, distinct voices, and we believe they have the power to spark connection and conversation across all kinds of audiences.”
Out Loud List 2025 Selections
NEXT OF KIN
–Sylvia Batey Alcalá (she/her)
–CHLOIE, a small-town Public Administrator still coping with the horrific accident that killed her parents, likes her life quiet, predictable, and safe. When her latest case leads her to fall in love with the wrong person, her world is upended.
–Kate Sharp (Bellevue)
NO ONE LIVES HERE
–Justin Bonilla (he/him)
–A Puerto Rican fifteen-year-old girl comes of age in pre-gentrified 1980s Williamsburg, Brooklyn as she fights for justice after her closeted brother’s stabbing and his girlfriend’s mysterious disappearance.
–Mitchell Bendersky (Expectation Management)
FAMILY BLOOD
–Eric Giancola (he/him)
–When a witty, gay Hollywood hotshot’s career is cut short by a zombie contagion—and the only cure is consuming a blood relative—his only shot at survival is finding the birth mother he’s never met… and eating her.
–Zack Zucker (Bellevue)
AS THE CROW FLIES
–Jordan Gustafson (they/them)
–A history teacher becomes obsessed with solving a series of gruesome murders in their divided coastal town—only to discover a deeper evil hiding in plain sight.
–Open to representation
RUBBER
–Chloe Keenan (she/her)
–After their father’s sudden death, two estranged siblings uncover a workshop full of rubber women and clues to a mysterious past, calling into question everything they thought they knew.
–Alex Lerner (Kaplan/Perrone)
GETTING OUT
–Jim McDermott (he/him)
–A closeted, middle-aged Catholic priest finally leaves the priesthood and moves to Australia to figure out how to be gay—and maybe happy. He finds hope, and Hugh Jackman (sort of), at a Melbourne piano bar.
–Open to representation
LOL I’M DEAD
–Alana Moskowitz (she/they)
–ANNIE is a brunch-loving, messy NYC It Girl with a social circle she’s paranoid is excluding her (they are). Also, she’s a psychopath.
–Claire Jennings (Fourth Wall)
CREW
–M. Murray (they/them)
–In modern-day Baltimore, a teen searches for her missing best friend and descends into the dangerous world of The Crew, a violent anarchist collective with no way out.
–Krista Sipp (Heroes & Villains)
QUEER MOM
–Dani Shank (she/her)
–A young woman’s plans to introduce her girlfriend to her parents are upended when her mother comes out after 35 years of marriage.
–Joseph Cavalier (Heroes & Villains)
A GLITCH IN PARADISE
–Mike Zunic (he/him)
–In a future where minds are uploaded into bionic bodies, a hopeless romantic retreats into a digital replica of a past relationship—until the simulation starts to break down.
–Open to representation
(Pictured above, left to right: Jordan Gustafson, Justin Bonilla, M. Murray, Mike Zunic, Sylvia Batey Alcalá)
(Pictured in featured image, left to right: Alana Moskowitz, Chloe Keenan, Dani Shank, Eric Giancola, Jim McDermott)
