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Boob(s On Your) Tube: 16 Summer TV Shows You Can Count On For Queer Characters

16 shows, 26 confirmed queer characters. Plus, a downloadble PDF calendar with premiere dates!

Heather Hogan May 25, 2015 34 Comments
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Orphan Black Episode 305 Recap: Sestra, Sestra

Cosima scores with Canada’s favorite lesbian dating app, and Helena and Sarah break each other’s hearts.

Heather Hogan May 21, 2015 27 Comments
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Boob(s) On Your Tube: Fall TV Ends With a Whimper, Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant are Accidental Lesbians on SNL

Jane the Virgin, Arrow, and Grey’s Anatomy close out the TV season and ready us for the return of Orange Is the New Black.

Heather Hogan May 18, 2015 43 Comments
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ABC Family Brings the Real-Life “Transparent” with “Becoming Us” (And That’s Not a Great Thing)

I found myself crying halfway through the first episode — not because the show was touching my heart, but because I couldn’t believe how Carly was being talked about by her family.

Mey May 18, 2015 44 Comments
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Fan Fiction Friday: 15 “Warehouse 13” Bering and Wells Stories to Honor Endless Wonder

Do you smell apples? I smell apples.

Heather Hogan May 15, 2015 31 Comments
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: Dead Lesbians and Bisexual Psychos Dominate May Sweeps

Supernatural kills Charlie, Gotham tropes Barbara, Arrow marries Nyssa off to a man. But on the upside, Samira Wiley crushed it on Law & Order: SVU and Raven was amazing on Black-ish.

Heather Hogan May 12, 2015 65 Comments
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Orphan Black Episode 303 Recap: My Milkshake Brings All the Clones to the Yard

Alison and Donnie sell drugs like ice creams, Sarah and Art track down Mark, Cosima does a brain extraction, and Helena is flawless.

Heather Hogan May 7, 2015 18 Comments
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “One Big Happy” Ends with a Surprise Gay Wedding

Luisa returns to Jane the Virgin with a new girlfriend, Root gets closer to finding Shaw on Person of Interest, Nyssa gets engaged (and not in a good way) on Arrow, Maggie takes a pregnant woman home on Younger, and more!

Heather Hogan May 4, 2015 13 Comments
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Grey’s Anatomy Episode 1122 Recap: Gone Girl

Derek ruins Callie and Arizona’s Christmas dreams from beyond the grave. Thanks a lot, pal!

Jenn May 4, 2015 23 Comments
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Orphan Black Episode 302 Recap: Mangoes Are Not the Only Fruit

Helena and Pupok go on a mango hunt, Alison becomes a pill pusher, Cosima gets sassy with science, and Sarah almost loses Kira again.

Heather Hogan April 29, 2015 17 Comments
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “The Good Wife” Says Goodbye to Its Bisexual Badass

One Big Happy has one more episode, Younger is still adorably hokey, Bo accidentally beds her stepmom on Lost Girl, Sam and Laura see a sexual healer on Newlyweds: The First Year, and The Bold and the Beautiful is still borking it all up.

Heather Hogan April 27, 2015 14 Comments
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Grey’s Anatomy Episode 1121 Recap: All Doctors Go to Heaven

Well, goodbye, Derek! Say hello to Tara and Maya and Toshiko and Leslie and Bullet and Cristina and Silvia and Shana and Kenya and Tara and Naomi and other Naomi and Cat for us!

Jenn April 26, 2015 67 Comments
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Discovery Life’s Trans Docuseries “New Girls On The Block” is Flawed, But Not Beyond Redemption

Discovery Life will premiere a new documentary series on April 11th about a circle of trans women friends, but the producers dip into cliche a little too much.

Mari Brighe April 8, 2015 8 Comments
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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.”

KaeLyn April 1, 2015 33 Comments
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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.

Rachel March 31, 2015 56 Comments
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Let’s Talk About Ellen and Liz Feldman’s New Lesbian Sitcom “One Big Happy”

Liz Feldman is one of the funniest women in Hollywood, so I hope NBC loosens the reins and lets her get a little more real.

Heather Hogan March 18, 2015 58 Comments
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“Steven Universe” and the Importance of All-Ages Queer Representation

Up until now, the assumption had been that Garnet was a single Gem like Pearl and Amethyst. However, the truth is much more romantic.

Mey March 13, 2015 187 Comments
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“Scandal” Breaks Our Hearts With an Elderly Lesbian Couple and Jasika Nicole

“Just one week after perhaps the most powerful episode in the show’s history, Shonda Rhime’s force-of-nature hit show Scandal has once again destroyed our hearts. This week’s story touched the souls of audiences everywhere with two tales of love trying to rise above what seem like impossible situations.”

Mey March 13, 2015 10 Comments
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“Broad City” Swan-Dives Off Sapphic Cliff Into Sea Of Sexual Fluidity

Last night on a very special episode of Broad City, Ilana made out with a girl and even though it wasn’t Abbi, it was still pretty cool.

Riese March 12, 2015 32 Comments
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A Pastor, a Sexologist, and a Psychotherapist Send Two Lesbians into the “Sex Box”

Brittany and Sally got married on the Grammy’s last year and now they are headed into the sex box.

KaeLyn March 7, 2015 23 Comments
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