If you thought Cameron Esposito showing up as Rosa Diaz’s girlfriend on Brooklyn Nine-Nine was the most shocking gay thing to happen thing on TV last Thursday night, wait’ll you get a load of this.
Last night’s Brooklyn-Nine finally introduced Rosa’s season-long off-screen girlfriend, and in doing so, paid off the set up for probably the best inside gay joke I have ever seen on television in my entire life.
Aidy Bryant’s Annie is young, pretty and fat. Her best friend Fran is also fat – and a British black lesbian. And if you’re a fat babe, you’ll find things to both like and cringe about in this show.
“It’s a world filled with wonderful, kind, queer people.”
Jess’ Blackness is tended to, built back up as the positive it is. I don’t think we have ever seen anything like this — but I certainly hope we see it again.
Valerie and Riese chat about “Shameless,” the Showtime dramedy we weren’t watching for the gay lady parts and then suddenly there were a lot of gay lady parts. Did we like them? Find out!
From conquering Latin America to conquering the world. Meet Juliantina, your new favorite queer couple.
I’m pleased to report that series two, which landed this week on Channel 4, is just as irreverent, just as uproarious, just as unpredictable as series one.
When you have legitimately diverse cast and a writers room willing to evolve with the cultural conversation, you get episodes like this that ask hard questions and don’t shy away from broken penis jokes.
It also feels worth mentioning that Abbi dates a woman ONCE and is already wearing a denim dress with pockets? I guess we’re just diving right on in to the queer lifestyle!
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Tia’s a complete scene stealer. She’s defies so many boxes or tropes of what we’ve been programmed to expect from a black lesbian on TV.
This entire season is so gay its nearly unquantifiable.
The Pretty Little Liars spin-off has a trailer, a premiere date, and a tiny bit of exposition about what happened to Alison and Emily’s happy ever after.
The night of her 36th birthday, charismatic, caustic Nadia is killed in a chance accident, only to find that the evening has reset itself, looping endlessly. The premise is a puzzle, yet there’s no urge after watching Russian Doll to dissect or theorize; that’s not the point. The point is something else.
“I don’t need you to respect me, I respect me. I don’t need you to love me, I love me.”
Latina legend Carmen Sandiego is the most competent, confident person on the show, unapologetic in her femme-ness. A feminist Latina Robin Hood!
Days later, I remain astounded by these writing choices and their cruelty.
“Are you out here Janelle Monae-ing in these streets?” is a real thing a real character said out loud on grown-ish last night.
It’s like a damn Nancy Meyers movie up in here in season five.