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These Fictional Straight Women Should Divorce Their Husbands (And Marry Me)
“Tami Taylor put on those aviator sunglasses and I was like, girl you need me. She flipped her hair to the side and I was like, girl you need me. Her y’all drawl? Girl. You. Need. Me.”
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7 Unconventional Ships Only We Love
We love these fictional couples — even if you don’t.
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Were We Ever So Young: Couples We Used To Ship and Were Extremely Wrong About
Now we are older and wiser! We can look back on our favorite toxic ships with compassion or horror or both.
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P-Valley Has Changed the Rules of Black Queer Storytelling
A roundtable between four queer black writers about THEE show of the summer that united exceptional storytelling, with blackness and queerness and southernness, in ways we’ve never seen before.
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“And Just Like That” TV Team Roundtable: On Che’s Comedy Concert, Miranda’s Queer Awakening, LTW’s Jumpsuit and More!
The TV Team weighs in on all our feelings about Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That’s first season: the good, the bad and the Che Diaz.
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The Coming Out Scenes We’ll Never Forget
“I doubt that Santana was written from the jump with the intention to make her a lesbian, but sometimes that’s what a coming out journey feels like — like you’re in a show and the writers chose a new direction for your character mid-way through Season Two. You can still look back and find a way to make it all fit together, though. Stories and lives are fluid like that.”
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What 4 TV Shows Do You Love More Than Anyone Else?
“These roundtables are fun, because sometimes I’m answering and I’m like GOD I’M SO MYSELF and I feel that here. Not just because I feel anxious about whether I really can claim to like these more than anyone I know, but also because my answers are just so aggressively me.”
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The Straight TV Couples We Won’t Apologize For Loving
“Because I never want to be enemies with the love of my life, that’s why.”
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How and Why We Like to Be Scared by TV and Movies
Horror has always been my favorite genre. I’m a very anxious person and something about having that anxiety externalized in a way that’s fun or cathartic has always really appealed to me. I like roller coasters too. How often is our fear so wonderfully contained?
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Describe an Iconic Gay TV Show You’ve Never Seen
“Stephen Universe is a cartoon show about a little boy with a large mouth who wears flip-flops regardless of weather or situation. Rebecca Sugar made the show and she is bisexual. Stephen has imaginary friends who live in a big jewelry emporium in outer space famous for its ability to fuse different types of gemstones and rocks into each other.”
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A Gay Television History of “Jane the Virgin”
A definitive look back on the greatest, gayest show about a heterosexual romance of our time.
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“Orange Is the New Black” Changed Everything We Thought We Knew About Queer TV
As “Orange is the New Black” wraps up its seven-season run, our TV team weighs in on the show’s legacy — the good and the bad.
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The L Word’s Lisa The Lesbian-Identified Man: A Trans Symposium
“What do we in want from and for Lisa in 2019? Justice for him, or peace of mind for us? The desire to reach back in time and pull him into our present is natural because we – especially trans people – want to see her character restored in dignity, thus preserving our own dignity.”
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A Brief History of Lesbian Sex on TV: From Late Night Hair-Brushing to Primetime Scissoring
With Gillian Anderson’s Sex Education landing on Netflix, it feels like the perfect time to gather our TV Team and talk about sex on TV, specifically queer sex on TV, and its evolution over these many years.
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TV Team Roundtable: Our Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual Girls Behaving Badly
“My armor was a smile, Santana’s was an insult. And bless her for it.”
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TV Team Roundtable: How We Handle TV That Breaks Our Hearts (Or Makes Us Want to Break the TV)
Here’s how we handle TV that lets us down, the shows we think successfully turned it around, and our ultimate dealbreakers.
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TV Team Roundtable: Seeing Our Baby Gay Selves in Our Favorite Baby TV Gays
“I felt connected to her on a deep level — she is the only girl I’ve written an entire zine about — but wasn’t ready to really engage with it.”
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TV Team Roundtable: Just Some “Jane the Virgin” Petramos True Believers Over Here
“Nothing the show will throw at me will ever doubt my faith in the foundation of their love. NOTHING!! So don’t even try it, Jane the Virgin. This is an official warning.”