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The 35 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows of All Time
Fellow Travelers ()
In this heart-wrenching Showtime miniseries, Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer compete two Capitol Hill men caught in the horrors of McCarthyism, falling in love despite a political atmosphere that is trying to crucify all its gender non-conforming members. The show charts their relationship 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 night. Just be sure to possess a box of tissues sitting nearby.
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Hacks (–present)
In Hacks, viewers follow 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 relationship, we spot the struggle of generations trying to learn from one another and, notably, how Ava’s bisexuality opens Deborah’s eyes to past prejudices.
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TV has been instrumental in the LGBTQ+ rights movement and in changing attitudes towards the community. It has also, perhaps most importantly, been a platform to tell stories that have made gay, woman-loving woman, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and more people perceive less alone in the world – to grasp there is a vast 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 awareness into the LGBTQ+ encounter, and provided LGBTQ+ people with reflections of their own lives – stories to laugh along with, to cry with, and to identify with. In this list of Gay TV shows, we peak shows that have broken ground, 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 encounter
Ahh, Peacock — the last in a long line of streaming services to appear and construct us all wonder, &#;do we desire this?&#; Well, you should know that surprisingly enough, Peacock&#;s slate of original content is extremely lesbian-inclusive — Peacock has queer characters in nearly all of its original and co-produced TV shows and movies. However, these shows rarely get a second or third season pickup. Sad! Anyhow, let&#;s dig into the best Peacock shows with womxn loving womxn, bisexual or lgbtq+ women characters or trans people!
Queer as Folk
Peacock Drama,
Unlike the deeply pale, cis and able-bodied original characters, all of the fresh QAF’s mains are people of dye or trans or disabled or all of the above, including Char, a non-binary Black masculine-presenting person and their partner, Ruthie, a trans woman who’d grown up with the series’ celebrity, gay party male child Brodie. Queer as Folk gave us groundbreaking and incredibly boiling sex, a Craft-inspired performative show, a sex party catered towards people with disabilities and a joyful portrait of chosen family coming together in the meet of sha
People Are Sharing Their Favorite LGBTQ+ TV Shows Of All Time And, Wow, I Have A Lot To Watch
"By Season 7, our main cast was made up of a bisexual woman and her lesbian wife, a lgbtq+ man who invented period travel to save his boyfriend, a fairly over-the-top pansexual — arguably not cis — alien with a girlfriend, the only asexual on network television, and had just said goodbye to a fluid man who’d had meaningful relationships with men and women — who just left, didn’t die, just left. The rest of the characters were ostensibly straight, but all the actors said they were comfortable with the concept of their characters creature LGBTQ+ as well and supported and encouraged headcanons. The show started with one bisexual woman and a bunch of unbent people.
On top of that, it was just so much FUN, and big-hearted. This was a goofy family who had the best time and got up to the silliest stuff. It’s so joyful and a great antidote to serious, heterosexual superhero stuff."
—garebehr