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Interviews, features and contests relating to LGBTQ tv characters, creators and writers.

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10 Queer Animation Wins in 2025

We had some sapphic endgames, fan-created polycules, Australian space princesses who are also lesbians, and more.

Rendy Jones

Dec 27, 2025

A collage of images from Get Real, Beautiful Thing, Feel Good, and Billy Elliot

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8 British Film and TV Characters Who Made Me Gay

From Skins to Feel Good, these eight characters turned out to be life-changing.

Eva Reign

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Jun 11, 2024

HBO Looking trans: the three leads o Looking pose in a press photo sitting on a couch looking into the camera.

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HBO’s Once-Dismissed ‘Looking’ Has Found a New Audience: Trans Guys

Looking wasn’t a failure just because some cis gay men didn’t like it enough. It reached me, an unlikely and perfect audience.

Gabe Dunn

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Jun 4, 2024

piper and alex leaning against the wall crying

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What the Gay TV Show You’re Rewatching Says About Your Mental Health

From Grey’s Anatomy to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The L Word to “San Junipero” on repeat, this is what can reasonably be deduced about your mental health at this…

Riese

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May 27, 2024

36 Songs Glee Would Cover Now: The New Directions dressed in black sing on stage

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Happy 15th Anniversary, ‘Glee’! Here Are 36 Songs They’d Cover If the Show Was On Now

Santana and Brittany – “Pynk” by Janelle Monáe

Drew Burnett Gregory

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May 22, 2024

Marnie and Jessa kiss as Thomas Jane watches on

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Very Special Gay Episode: When Two ‘Girls’ Kiss and Never Speak of It Again

Marnie kissed Jessa to prove a point; she keeps kissing Jessa because she wants to.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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May 21, 2024

Unconventional ships we love: Jenny and Shane look off to the side and smile while embracing.

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7 Unconventional Ships Only We Love

We love these fictional couples — even if you don’t.

The TV Team

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May 9, 2024

The One with the Lesbian Wedding: Carol and Susan in big funny hates smile at the camera with their butch officiant standing between them.

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Very Special Gay Episode: The One Where I Write About the ‘Friends’ Lesbian Wedding

It could happen in real life, couldn’t it? It had happened on Friends and everyone loved Friends.

Kristen Arnett

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May 7, 2024

Willow Rosenberg is the champion of 2024 Autostraddle March Madness

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Willow Rosenberg Is Your Autostraddle March Madness 2024 ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Champion!

Willow’s win is a testament to the way representation, and our first encounters with it, imprints upon a person. There’s something unshakeable about our connections to the first time we…

Natalie

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Apr 11, 2024

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