Results for: straight people watch
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Uzo Aduba and Viola Davis Make History At The Most Feminist Emmy Awards Ever
Openly gay writers/directors Lisa Cholodenko and Jane Anderson took home trophies. Jane Lynch snagged another win. And Transparent pulled down three Emmys, too!
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Pop Culture Fix: Rosie Perez Had a Girlfriend In Junior High, Kate McKinnon Wants A Hamburger Right Now and Other Stories
An amazing roundtable with funny Hollywood females including Kate McKinnon, Rosie Perez talks to The Trevor Project about wanting to hump her junior high girlfriend all the time, Andreja Pejic’s groundbreaking new gig, what Bennett was thinking and more!
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“Fresh Off the Boat” Balances Stereotype and Authenticity in a Very Gay Episode
“I laughed a LOT, and it didn’t make me feel weird or mean-spirited afterwards.”
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“The 100” Gives Canon Bisexual Representation and A Queer Girl Ship, and It Taketh Away
In which we discuss The 100, its badass bisexual protagonist Clarke, and the heartbreakingest gay commander this side of outer space.
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Empire’s Tiana Is A Hot Girl, Has A Hot Girl (And Boy!)
This past week, Empire’s Tiana Brown revealed that she has a girlfriend. In addition to her boyfriend. We need to talk about this!
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“The Mindy Project” Debuts Lesbian Character Married To Julie Goldman, Bless It
In “The Devil Wears Land’s End,” Mindy accidentally goes on a date with a lesbian and then her butch girlfriend shows up AND IT’S JULIE GOLDMAN.
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Raven Doesn’t Want to be Labeled “Gay” or “African-American;” Most of Us Don’t Get the Choice
To which my own response was like Oprah’s, “Oh, girl.”
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Badass Lesbian Latina Detective Renee Montoya is Coming to Your TV This Fall on “Gotham”
Everyone’s favorite Gotham City Detective will be a regular on the hotly anticipated new show from Fox.
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In Which Mari and Mey Have Conflicted Feelings About “Transparent”
Have you seen the preview for Amazon Prime’s new trans woman-centered dramedy Transparent? We have, and we have very conflicted feelings about it.
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Going Beyond Going Down: Why Diverse Queer Sex On TV Matters
“And every time she has sex with a man, she is ass naked. Literally. I have seen her ass now twice. My problem isn’t her being ass naked. She has straight sex and is naked, but this other character has gay sex and both of them — bras on, underwear on.”
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MTV’s “Faking It” Renewed For Season Two, Praise Lesbian Jesus
“Faking It” forever! Or for ten more episodes, anyway!
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Carmen Carrera and Tyra Banks Are Making A Docuseries About Trans Women
Carmen Carrera, a transgender model and activist is set to star in a brand new docuseries about a group of young trans women living in Chicago. The series, produced by Tyra Banks, will debut its eight hour-long episode run on VH1 in late 2014 or early 2015
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Your Primer on TV Upfronts 2014: A Mixed Bag
ABC, NBC, and FOX have released their upfronts for this fall’s new shows and I have a lot of feelings.
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Tavi Gevinson Will Play Haddie’s Girlfriend on “Parenthood,” Continues To Do All The Things
“From the preview, we just know that Haddie’s coming home for a visit, she brought Lauren with her, there’s something that she’s not ready to tell her family, and she and Lauren like to kiss.”
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MTV’s New Fake Lesbian Show “Faking It” Makes Me So Confused
On April 22, MTV will be premiering a new comedy about two girls who pretend to be lesbians together in order to get popular at school. Needless to say, this has me very confused.
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GLAAD’s “Where We Are On TV” Shows Best Place To Be On TV Is Behind The Camera
“Where We Are On TV” has some promising and not-so-promising numbers for queer women on the teevee, and also raises some questions about how we quantify “representation” in the first place for all groups.
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Everyone is Tired of White People on TV
There is now data that suggests viewers are more likely to watch shows with racially diverse casts and writing staffs. Imagine that.
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How Do We Solve A Problem Like “Queerbaiting”?: On TV’s Not-So-Subtle Gay Subtext
Once upon a time, gay subtext was a revolutionary act in media. But is it still all that progressive?
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Why Grey’s Anatomy’s New Story Arc Is A Pretty Big Deal
Because lesbian and bisexual characters now have longer shelf lives, network TV is beginning to go beyond the same trope-tastic story arcs.
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The Trials, Tribulations & Turning of True Blood’s Tara Thornton
How “True Blood” blew its chance to respectfully write a queer woman of color, and how maybe just maybe they are about to make up for it.