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“The Boys” Season 2 Gets Meta About Lesbian and Bisexual Representation
Elena pushes back on all this, saying she doesn’t want to change how she dresses and that actually Maeve is bisexual, but they say that the term lesbian is “an easier sell” because it’s “more cut and dry.”
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Queer British Teen Dramedy “In My Skin” Hits Hard on Class and Mental Illness, Misses on Race
Ultimately Kayleigh Llewellyn’s show proves that writing from a place of lived experience will always result in the sharpest stories — that’s as evident in its failures as it is in its successes.
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Netflix’s “Feel Good” Insists Deeply Flawed Queer People Are Worthy of Love
How do two queer people still figuring out their sexualities, their genders, their shames, their traumas, their pasts, their futures, their vastly different presents make a relationship work?
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HBO’s “Betty” Is Here and Its Skater Girls Are Queer
Sexual and gender fluidity feel possible for every character. It’s a girl power narrative that feels loose in its definition of girl — and certainly loose in its assumption of who those girls will date.
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“Love Is Blind” Is Basically a Lesbian Reality Show for Straight People — and I Can’t Get Enough of It
This show forces straights to do what lesbians do all the time — talk about their deepest fears and feelings, endlessly.
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“The Chi” Season Three: Easy on the Eyes as a Queer Woman, Hard on the Heart as a Black Woman
With a total of five lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans Black women characters in the main cast, Lena Waithe’s “The Chi” certainly made history this summer. But did making “The Chi” gayer turn it into a better show?
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I Missed Other People So I Took a Hit of “High Maintenance”
In New York, every time you step out your door, human interaction is offered to you. The most magical thing about New York, about “High Maintenance,” about life has suddenly become a danger.
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Netflix’s “Hollywood” is a Land of Dreams — But Does It Earn the Fantasy?
“There’s a once-in-century virus eating away at the fabric of everything we know about how to live, just let the gays kiss for once! Let women of color win the fucking Oscar!” Drew, Riese and Carmen binged Ryan Murphy’s newest Netflix release, and they can’t wait to talk about it.
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MTV’s “True Love and True Lies” Is Gay, Indulges Your Secret Hobby of Judging Which Couples are Actually in Love
I assume all the straight couples are fake because I can’t believe that anyone would choose that lifestyle unless there was a cash prize.
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s Final Season Gives The Gays Everything They Want
“Even after all the growth and apologies, all the blushing and teasing, all the conversations about what they both want, I couldn’t let myself believe it. I was so afraid to be let down. But holy shit y’all, THEY DID IT.”
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The Lesbian Storyline on “Light as a Feather” Ended Up Being Stiff as a Board
I just don’t think we’re in a place yet, culturally, where there’s enough positive representation out there to start killing off evil lesbians.
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“She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” Is Queerness and Hope in a Dark World
Join Carmen Phillips, Valerie Anne, Heather Hogan, and special guest Meg Jones Wall to talk about the triumph, heartbreak, gayness, and empowerment of one of our all-time favorite animated series.
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“Twenties” Review: Lena Waithe Writes Herself Into Her Groundbreaking New BET Series To Mixed Results
Lena Waithe’s “Twenties” on BET is historic — the first black butch lesbian to ever serve as the protagonist of a comedy in TV history! Carmen and Natalie got together to talk about the show, what’s next for black queer representation, and yes that really great sex scene.
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“Batwoman” Boldly Goes Where Few TV Shows Have Gone Before — Into a Gay Lady Love Triangle!
“Down Down Down” introduces Reagan, a bartender who neither melts under Ruby Rose’s intense smolder nor is shaken from her single-minded pursuit of asking out Kate Kane by the fact of three entire elevators plummeting to the ground in the building where she’s working a party.
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“Are You The One?” Finale Sees Queer Community Triumphing Over Odds, Going Skinny-Dipping, Winning Money
The “Are You The One?” finale was a fitting end to the best season of reality TV in the history of civilization, and everybody came out to party about it.
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HBO’s “Mrs. Fletcher” Wants Us All to F*ck
Mrs. Fletcher is entirely directed by women and it’s all about sex. More specifically it’s about who’s historically been entitled to sex, how it feels to historically be denied sexual expression, and the difficulties of navigating sexual discovery. Especially if you’re as horny as every single character on this show.
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“The L Word: Generation Q” Review: Something Old, Something New, as Much Queer Sex as You Remember
I loved Generation Q. I don’t know why I’m so nervous to say that out loud? I suppose because it’s The L Word. And that means there’s so much on the line for so many of us, but damnit — I really did love it.
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“Motherland: Fort Salem” Is Queer and Witchy and Full of Surprises
Freeforms’s new alternate-universe elite witchy fighters series didn’t waste any time getting gay, gay, gay.
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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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I Love “Euphoria” and I Hate It
We can debate the actual quality of Euphoria, but what’s undeniable is Sam Levinson is writing about people most of the film and television world has ignored. After two failed movies focusing on cis white people and one mediocre HBO movie about an old cis white guy, Levinson discovered what Hollywood at large still hasn’t.