Spoiler Alert: This article contains descriptions of scenes from Prime Video’s new comedy series “Overcompensating.”

Benito Skinner is so out and proud, he created a television show about it.

Skinner (known as Benny Drama to his millions of social media followers) stars in his semi-autobiographical Prime Video comedy series “Overcompensating” as Benny, a former high school football star who begins exploring coming out of the closet during his freshman year of college. The eight-episode premiere season follows Benny as he navigates frat life, same-sex crushes and trying to live up to his family and friends’ high and very hetero expectations.

“Amazon let me make the gayest show ever,” Skinner says on the latest episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.

There are many examples why the show could live up to such a high queer standard, but one can just take Benny’s wardrobe to be convinced.

“It would be a loincloth one day,...