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Television TV Show Recaps

“Black Lightning” Episode 102 Recap: Three Minutes in Heaven

This is brave and historic. But it’s played intimate and vulnerable and small and more than anything, normal. Just two people sharing together. Like we have seen straight people do a thousand times.

Carmen Phillips January 24, 2018 28 Comments
Agent Alex Danvers lays it DOWN
Television TV Show Recaps

“Supergirl” Episode 311 Recap: Space Girls

This female-focused episode of Supergirl kicked ass and took names.

Valerie Anne January 23, 2018 35 Comments
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TV Feature

Monday Roundtable: What Reality Show/Game Show Would You Destroy?

“Does anyone at the CIA who is for sure reading this want to hire me?”

the team January 22, 2018 32 Comments
Television TV Show Recaps

Boob(s On Your) Tube: The TV Gays Are Out In Full Force in 2018

Grey’s Anatomy, grown-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, The Fosters, and Sara Ramirez in that tux!

Heather Hogan January 19, 2018 30 Comments
Television TV News & Trailers

“One Mississippi” Got Cancelled and I’m Going to Set My Television on Fire

AMAZON CANCELLED “ONE MISSISSIPPI” AND “I LOVE DICK” WHICH IS A PERSONAL ATTACK AGAINST ME AND ALSO BUTCH LESBIAN VISIBILITY

Riese January 17, 2018 70 Comments
Television TV Show Recaps

“Black Lightning” Episode 101 Recap: Are You Ready for a Black Lesbian Superhero?

She’s ready to win over my heart, and I am very ready to let her.

Carmen Phillips January 17, 2018 37 Comments
Television TV News & Trailers

Here, Try These Semi-Sweet Morsels of Queerish TV Info From the 2018 TCAs I’ve Prepared For You

We got the scoop on 2 Dope Queens, Pose, The Handmaid’s Tale, Heathers, Sweetbitter, Living Biblically, Roseanne, Vida and Life Sentence — all shows bringing queer women to your teevee screen very soon.

Riese January 17, 2018 8 Comments
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Television TV Show Recaps

“Supergirl” Episode 310 Recap: We’ll Make It, I Swear

Supergirl is down for the count, so Alex and the DEO have to figure out how to stop Reign without her.

Valerie Anne January 16, 2018 16 Comments
Television TV News & Trailers

Starz’s “Vida” Promises Next-Level Queer Latinx TV and We Can’t Wait

TCA wraps up this week but we’ve already picked the show we’re most excited about: Starz’s”Vida” has a Queer Latina showrunner, a writers room that’s 100% Latinx and 50% queer, an all-POC mostly-female directing team, and so many queer and gender non-conforming characters!

Riese January 16, 2018 10 Comments
TV Lists

Gay Hairplay: Top 11 Times a Girl Touched Another Girl’s Hair on TV and Film

Lesbian and bisexual gal pals caressing each other’s hair on TV and in movies has gotten a bad rap, probably because that’s what most fictional queer women have historically done instead of kissing on the mouth. But hairplay can also be really sexy!

Heather Hogan January 11, 2018 57 Comments
Television TV Reviews

“Grown-ish” Is Here, Queer and Even Better Than We Hoped

Somewhere between Zoey’s orientation visit to California University on black-ish and the debut of grown-ish last week on Freeform, the writers decided to make her imperfect — and that’s a good thing!

Natalie January 10, 2018 14 Comments
Television TV Show Recaps

“Marvel’s Runaways” Episode 110 Recap: Sweet Karolina

Leslie confesses something terrible to Tina, and now my ship is in shambles!!!!!!!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 10, 2018 18 Comments
Television TV Reviews

Steven Universe’s Stevonnie Is Bringing Non-Binary Representation to TV in a Brand New Way

Just like it celebrated lesbian love story with Ruby and Sapphire forming Garnet, Steven Universe is once again using a fusion to explore queer identities and, more revolutionarily, to celebrate them.

Mey January 8, 2018 5 Comments
The L Word

The Astrological Signs of Everyone’s Hair in The L Word

Shane’s hair in season one is a Gemini, but by season four, it’s a Pisces.

Erin January 5, 2018 36 Comments
Queer Fashion TV Feature

Style Thief: How to Dress Like Riverdale’s Jughead Jones

Here’s how to nail Jughead’s classic lesbian look.

Molly Ostertag January 4, 2018 49 Comments
Television TV Show Recaps

“Marvel’s Runaways” Episode 109 Recap: Kissing Girls at the End of the World

Sometimes it takes the threat of the world ending for teens to admit their feelings for one another.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 3, 2018 14 Comments
TV Feature

In 2017, Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters Did Pretty OK, and That’s a Pretty Big Deal

2017 somehow turned out to be the best year ever for lesbian and bisexual women on television — but we’ve still got a ways to go.

Riese January 2, 2018 67 Comments
Television TV Show Recaps

“Marvel’s Runaways” Episode 108 Recap: Off-The-Rails

Victor and Frank are at the bottom of this week’s power rankings.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 26, 2017 10 Comments
Television TV Lists

2017’s 18 Best Episodes of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV

These were entire TV episodes that paid off queer storylines that had been building, or approached lesbian and bisexual and trans stuff in ways we’ve never really seen on-screen, or expanded queer storytelling into genres where it’d been lacking, or utilized new TV platforms in queer ways.

the team December 22, 2017 8 Comments
Television TV Lists

The 17 Most Romantic Lesbian and Bisexual TV Moments of 2017

There were songs and bike races and hot air balloon rides and promises of forever and allusions to some of the most romantic tropes and movies of all times.

the team December 21, 2017 26 Comments
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