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The 35 Best Queer TV Shows of All Time
Fellow Travelers ()
In this heart-wrenching Showtime miniseries, Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer play two Capitol Hill men caught in the horrors of McCarthyism, falling in treasure despite a political atmosphere that is trying to crucify all its homosexual members. The demonstrate charts their affair over the next three decades, all the way up to the AIDS crisis, with a beautiful, poignant story that echoes with political issues we’re still seeing to this day. Just be sure to have a box of tissues sitting nearby.
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Hacks (–present)
In Hacks, viewers shadow a veteran comedian named Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), who realizes her career has been stuck in autopilot when she meets a struggling young penner named Ava (Hannah Einbinder), who inspires her with a renewed sense of creativity and ride. Through their affair , we see the struggle of generations trying to study from one another and, notably, how Ava’s bisexuality opens Deborah’s eyes to past prejudices.
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Because I am a male lover millennial, The s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture caught my eye immediately. Like creator Grace Perry, my coming-of-age years neatly overlapped with the s, I turned 10 in and 18 in I acutely keep in mind the pre-smartphone days of the internet — chatting on AIM, filling my iPod knock-off with illegally downloaded music, reading type magazines, and poring over niche blogs and forums.
Despite being close in age to Perry, I was skeptical that I would find this book relatable because — the s definitely didn’t make me gay. I didn’t even realize I was gender non-conforming until ! But as I started reading, I discovered that Perry didn’t realize right away either. The book examines s pop culture partly through the lens of her younger self, who was at first so closeted that she didn’t even know she was in the closet, just favor me. Perry’s essays also offer layers of sensible hindsight, exploring how certain pop culture tropes contributed to how closeted so many gay millennials were — and how they influenced what kind of gays we would eventually grow up to be.
As Perry notes in the intro
The 25 Most Essential LGBTQ TV Shows of the 21st Century
&#;Tuca and Bertie&#; ()
What it is: The dearly departed “Tuca and Bertie” was one of TV’s best shows about friendship, dating, and being a hot mess: tried and true subject matter many queer people can relate to. The titular avian duo — impulsive party animal tucan Tuca (Tiffany Haddish) and sensible but anxious tune thrush Bertie (Ali Wong) — have one of TV’s loveliest friendships, as the two total opposites support each other through career and romantic struggles. While the main passionate relationship of the present is between Bertie and her adorably square lover Speckle (Steven Yeun), Tuca is very much an out-and-proud bisexual bird, flitting around from romantic partners of all genders and species.
Why it&#;s essential: The best season of the show, Season 2, features Tuca entering a bond with Kara (Sasheer Zamata), a seagull nurse. Initially a positive bond, the show steadily tracks the flaws in the pairing, as Kara puts Tuca down and forces her to change to fit the
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TV has been instrumental in the Queer rights movement and in modifying attitudes towards the community. It has also, perhaps most importantly, been a platform to inform stories that have made male lover, lesbian, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and more people feel less alone in the world – to know there is a big and varied community to which they belong. One pioneering show at a time, groundbreaking character by groundbreaking character, TV and streaming series have given the world an insight into the LGBTQ+ experience, and provided LGBTQ+ people with reflections of their own lives – stories to laugh along with, to cry with, and to recognize with. In this list of LGBTQ+ TV shows, we showcase shows that have broken soil, enlightened, and entertained.
We&#;ve arranged the list into four categories: shows that were big TV firsts, or featured TV firsts; shows that center on LGTBQ characters or experience